In the squeezing of a lemon

I shall be away for May: to London to present a seminar paper and to Montreal for a wedding. I shall return with news about poutine and maple sugar.

Although I shall see you, really, in the squeezing of a lemon, I leave you with this from Kinfolk:

And with these:

• Food stamps are better than food banks.
• ‘Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would be cut by 25-40% if Europeans cut their meat and dairy consumption by half’.
• Shake Shack seems to be able to pay its employees a living wage.
• What it’s like to be on food stamps.
• ‘The global land grab is a phenomenon against which those whose land is being grabbed seem defenceless.’
• Las Vegas is running out of water.
• Fresh produce is at risk from climate change.
• American apples have been banned in Europe.
• Coffee beans are too expensive for Starbucks.
• Childhood obesity in the US has not declined.
• Beekeeping in the Rust Belt.
• Are higher food prices better for our health?
• Food blogging, hunger, moral outrage.
• Saving rare species by not eating them.
• The rise of dry bars in Britain.
• More parents are making their own baby food.
• Gender and food reviewing.
• Coffee pods are very bad for the environment.
• Why conch shells shrunk over time.
• Spain was 2013’s top wine producer.
• Going meat-free.
• Eating out in Georgian London.
• Rethinking advice about ‘healthy‘ food.
• A Texas Republican spent more than $30,000 on ham and chocolate.
• Cream cheese and bacon.
• Where to eat in Queens, NYC.
• How to prepare prawns.
• Making the pastries in Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel.
• Don’t put tomatoes in the fridge.
• A beer map of the United States.
• Restaurants that exist only in dreams.
• From bean to chocolate bar.
• Make your own curd cheese.
• A guide to the hamburgers of New York.
• Chocolate chip cookies weren’t invented by accident.
• What do chefs cook at home?
• A tribute to Clarissa Dickson-Wright.
• Facts about hops.
• What fruit and vegetables look like under an MRI scanner.
• How to make alcoholic ginger beer.
• A pop-up restaurant in Dakar.
• Signs you need to leave after dinner.
• How to make risotto.
• Food photography.
• The wonut.
• America’s first cat cafe.
• Steamed cupcakes.
• Knitted food.
• India’s first foods. (Thanks, mum!)
• A poem about peaches, iced tea, and barbeque.
• Eating ice cream with Jane Austen.
• A vending machine instead of a supermarket.
• Château le Grand Vostock.
• A Kaseiki menu.

See you in June x