Food Links, 18.06.2014
- Drought has dried up California’s honey supply.
- What the Fork?!
- Tipping is inherently unfair.
- Using prison labour to make artisinal food.
- Don’t wash raw chicken before cooking it.
- Could palm oil production be made sustainable?
- Super bananas.
- Wheat and Norman Borlaug’s legacy.
- Is pad Thai Chinese?
- ‘They found characters on [cereal] boxes marketed to children made eye contact with kids at a downward angle, while boxes marketed to adults made eye contact with adult shoppers at a straight or slightly upward angle.’
- Yaama Dhiyaan, a cookery school for at-risk Aboriginal youth.
- The American lime crisis is over.
- The fuss over aging cheese on wooden boards.
- Eat broccoli to combat the effects of air pollution.
- Dress codes for restaurants are pointless.
- ‘Like a few olives too if they had them. Italian I prefer. Good glass of burgundy take away that. Lubricate. A nice salad, cool as a cucumber, Tom Kernan can dress. Puts gusto into it. Pure olive oil. Milly served me that cutlet with a sprig of parsley. Take one Spanish onion. God made food, the devil the cooks. Devilled crab.’
- The health benefits of marinading meat in beer.
- How to eat seven portions of fruit and veg per day.
- Maya Angelou loved sherry.
- What it’s like being a taster for fast food companies.
- There is a Spam festival in Hawaii.
- Restaurant reviews are influenced by the weather.
- How to save an overspiced or -salted dish.
- Meat substitutes are beginning to taste like meat.
- A brief history of gin.
- Cucumber ice cream.
- ‘There are no new foods. There will be no new foods. There are only rediscovered foods.’
- Why do we eat too much?
- Will Self’s energy drink addiction.
- Bread poetry.
- ‘Maybe that’s another thing I like about a posh lunch in a nice place – mastery over the ancestral DNA nagging in my blood that I don’t belong here.’
- Amazon Japan employs goat lawnmowers.
- Coffee flour.
- The joy of miso.
- Eating hornets.
- Still Diet.
- How to become a kale professional.
- Ribbons, Lambs, and Raspberry Jam.
- Should we drink more red wine?
- Recipes from Jane Austen’s novels and letters.
- How to cut a pineapple beautifully.
- ‘Female writers haven’t been immune to the lure of the bottle, nor to getting into the kinds of trouble – the fights and arrests, the humiliating escapades, the slow poisoning of friendships and familial relations – that have dogged their male colleagues.’
- Dogs in pubs.
- Hemingway‘s favourite cocktail.
- The dieting supremacist.
- How to preserve lemons.
- Bach’s Coffee Cantata.
- No-bake cakes.
- World of Peanut Butter.
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Tangerine and Cinnamon 
Thanks for the shout out. Great list of fascinating reading as always.
Pleasure! -Sarah
I saw the Guardian article about washing the meat – I’m so glad I haven’t been doing it for years as I would have had to have an immediate deep clean…
Thanks for sharing!
Pleasure! I must admit that I’ve never washed meat – didn’t even know that this was something people did. -Sarah
I used to, and it’s still in some of my older cooking books. I suppose when you buy the meat fresh in a market it makes more sense than when you get most of it vacuum-packed!
Thank you so much for the link!
You’re welcome! And what a great blog. By the way, I highly recommend a local, South African brand, Black Cat (http://www.blackcat.co.za/) which is, in my mind, the best peanut butter I’ve ever had. (And I say this a peanut butter enthusiast.) You can usually find it at South African/Commonwealth shops in the UK. -Sarah