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Dec 31

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Food Links, 31.12.2014

  • ‘millions of the poorest Britons are struggling to get sufficient calories to maintain their body weight for the first time since the Second World War’.
  • Using cellphone data to track food consumption.
  • Rising temperatures are changing the fish available in Britain’s waters.
  • Food stamps are big business.
  • China’s flying pig market.
  • Survivor stock bees.
  • The politics of drinking water.
  • A hospital in France opens a wine bar.
  • Thai hospital food.
  • The London gentrification pub crawl.
  • Concept restaurants do not foster sustainable cities.
  • Become a vegetarian and save the world.
  • Is organic food really healthier than non-organic?
  • McDonald’s opens a hipster cafe in Sydney.
  • Japan’s chip shortage has ended.
  • ‘Kenyans’ appetite for fried food and cheap frying oil is stalling the country’s urgent efforts to build a modern electrical grid’.
  • Community, not guerrilla, gardening. (Thanks, mum!)
  • Mrs Gorbachev gives Mrs Thatcher five hundred recipes for potatoes.
  • Suspended coffee.
  • 3D printed food.
  • How to translate a recipe: parts one and two.
  • Nut butters.
  • Food trends to end.
  • Pairing sake with western cuisines.
  • An anthropologist on food porn.
  • A restaurant offering discounts for prayers.
  • A guide to kitchen knives.
  • Cooking with weed.
  • Baking with vegetables.
  • Women’s growing enthusiasm for whisky.
  • The Eiffel Tower as a unit of measurement for cheese.
  • Shameeg Fagodien, Camps Bay ice cream seller.
  • The Wonder Bag.
  • Danny Bowien reopens Mission Chinese Food.
  • How to make marshmallow fluff.
  • How to make hard ginger beer.
  • How to make gin and tonic.
  • How to reheat pizza.
  • How to prevent freezer burn.
  • How to have a healthy hangover.
  • Eat more squirrel.
  • Adding air to food.
  • Tolstoy’s macaroni cheese.
  • Foraging on the Oregon coast.
  • Kant was wrong about food.
  • Authors drinking.
  • Veganuary.
  • Eating in restaurants in the US in the 1840s.
  • Best vegetarian recipe books.
  • Birch beer.
  • Christopher Hitchens on drinking.
  • Drink more Moldovan wine.
  • Scientific cures for hangovers.
  • Thomas Pynchon’s recipe for the first British pizza.

Dec 24

Food Links, 24.12.2014

  • What will a new relationship mean for Cuban and American farmers?
  • Hunger rates are at an all time high in the US, Canada, and the UK.
  • California needs even more rain.
  • Disease is built into the food system.
  • ‘I hope that ultimately the glycemic index will be left on the shelf.’
  • ‘So the more you drink – up to two drinks a day for woman, and four for men – the less likely you are to die.’
  • Eating invasive species.
  • Wine is getting stronger.
  • One alternative to Big Beef.
  • The chip and mayonnaise protest.
  • Wholefoods may begin selling rabbit.
  • China discovers cheese.
  • Holy harvest.
  • Hazelnut, chip, and butter shortages.
  • Banana beer.
  • Some of Argentina’s best restaurants are illegal.
  • Make your own alfajores.
  • A global history of the turkey.
  • ‘he is concerned that Hollywood plans for a comedy about the heist could damage the maple syrup industry’s image. “While it’s nice to have a good laugh, at some point it gets too much.”‘
  • The best restaurants in the South.
  • The rise and rise of the mason jar.
  • The rise and rise of the turkey.
  • The salt tolerant potato.
  • George Orwell’s fruit loaf.
  • Why St John in London has been so successful.
  • Avocado crème brûlée.
  • Julia Child’s refusal to be ‘perfect’ on television.
  • Breakfast in Kurdistan.
  • Green grass refrigerator pickles. (Thanks, mum!)
  • How to slice tomatoes.
  • How to make sugar cookies.
  • Portraits of bees.
  • Couscous Hanukkah fritters.
  • ‘Thou shalt have fries with that. Onion rings can be substituted, if available. But, by no means consider salad an acceptable side, and don’t forget to ask the waitress for ketchup. Thou shalt not call it tomato-y goodness.’
  • How to prevent watery coleslaw.
  • Feasts in children’s books.
  • Gingerbread, 1836.
  • How roasting replaced boiling.
  • Salade Aphrodite.
  • Urban livestock in nineteenth-century New York.
  • Lady Bird Johnson’s Texas chilli.
  • Beef Fizz and Saucy Susans.
  • Chocolate Lego.
  • A truffle was sold for $61,250.
  • Food to eat around a campfire.
  • Vegan barbecue recipes.
  • Catching rats for Vietnamese farmers.
  • What to do with leftover coffee grounds.
  • Why does peppermint cool us down? And watch candy canes being made.
  • Should you make your own fondant?
  • Swiss wine.

Dec 17

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Food Links, 17.12.2014

  • Combating illegal fishing.
  • Jack Monroe on poverty.
  • Levels of mercury in fish have increased dramatically.
  • The mystery of the disappearing vitamins.
  • Explaining parabens.
  • The looming olive oil shortage.
  • Does Britain have a drinking problem?
  • Americans go wild for almonds.
  • Radical Mycology.
  • Foraging is not cool.
  • Shorter trees mean cheaper fruit.
  • Lab grown milk.
  • How not to respond to being accidentally overcharged at a restaurant.
  • Most vegetarians and vegans return to eating meat.
  • The bulletproof coffee diet.
  • The Maillard Reaction.
  • Slavery, sugar, and drinking in the thirteen colonies.
  • Nixon’s lunch on his last full day of office.
  • How to open a bottle of wine with a shoe.
  • How to wrap a loaf.
  • Producing cava in Catalonia.
  • Cheese and hats.
  • Puddings for picnics.
  • Savoury ice cream.
  • Eat more schmaltz.
  • An interview with Betty Fussell.
  • Best things eaten in 2014.
  • Moments of food revelation in film.
  • ‘”It’s not out of the question that someone at some point may have made a mould of some famous woman’s breasts and then used it for a glass,” she went on, “but I don’t think there’s anything to indicate that Marie Antoinette herself would have lent her breast for a vessel.”‘
  • Ancient Egyptian bread.
  • Lasse Hallström’s new movie misrepresents chefs.
  • Making cheese in goatskin.
  • The watermelon bagel.
  • How to drink absinthe.
  • The plio diet.
  • Eton mess cake.
  • Pork schnitzel and marital bliss.
  • A corner shop made out of felt.
  • Bodega cats.
  • The best bars in Buenos Aires.
  • New York’s first mustard sommelier.
  • Kosher and sustainable seafood?
  • Fluffy dinner balls.
  • Make better sugar cookies.
  • Make better latkes.
  • Make better tea.

Sep 10

Food Links, 10.09.2014

  • The fast food workers’ strike in the US. They were not paid to strike. But will these strikes actually work?
  • Russians respond to the ban on western food.
  • The rich are eating better, the poor are eating worse.
  • Synbio.
  • Sugar and fat are not addictive.
  • In Boston, food trucks are safer than restaurants.
  • Why fast food is more expensive this year.
  • Organic farming won’t save the world.
  • Raw sugar is no healthier than refined sugar.
  • Alain Ducasse (almost) abandons meat.
  • Urban agriculture in Cleveland.
  • Rumours of shortages of kale, chia seeds, amaranth, and quinoa.
  • A brief history of the pumpkin spice latte.
  • Americans are eating more butter.
  • The barn revival.
  • Roald Dahl on food.
  • In praise of Yotam Ottolenghi and Diana Henry.
  • ‘They proudly revel in the relentless, boorish stuffing of faces, unchecked public intoxication, and wasteful excess.’
  • A history of picnics through photography.
  • Vegan cheesecake.
  • The evolution of caffeine.
  • Patat Oorlog.
  • The language of tea. (Thanks, mum!)
  • A market in Da Lat, Vietnam.
  • Insect snacks in Massachusetts.
  • How to divide cake batter evenly between pans.
  • Where to eat in Gujarat.
  • The science of chocolate chip cookies.
  • Breakfast in Istanbul.
  • Jennifer Lopez’s birthday cake.
  • Buttered coffee.
  • Why restaurants discontinue dishes.
  • Eating rat.
  • How to clean a wooden rolling pin.
  • Things that contain no calories.
  • Eating across Texas.
  • Raspberry and quince jelly teacake.
  • South Indian cool drinks.
  • Making maple syrup.
  • Death threats at a whiskey distillery in Texas.
  • Monster soup.
  • Coasters.
  • Salt beef sandwiches.
  • The end of cereal?
  • A recipe comic.
  • Chicken, bacon, and bean stew.
  • Minimalist cocktail posters.
  • Unpaid graft.

Aug 20

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Food Links, 20.08.2014

  • How to feed an extra three billion people.
  • Hunger’s disproportionate impact on women.
  • ‘California’s drought is now the worst since at least 1895.’
  • An eviction from a wine farm leaves a family homeless.
  • Eat more meat to save the world. Don’t eat more meat to save the world.
  • A quarter of US military households are using food banks.
  • Children born in recessions may have better health.
  • Almond milk is a scam.
  • Chicory, brown sugar, acai berries, soybeans, and peanuts are being added to coffee.
  • We’re eating too much salt.
  • A cookbook for people on food stamps. (Thanks, mum!)
  • DIY Soylent.
  • Pyongyang’s restaurants.
  • The growing demand for ancient grains.
  • Greenfields Farm in the Natal midlands.
  • A guide to eating in Puglia.
  • The joy of bone marrow.
  • ‘Smells a little like hops but tastes like cleaning fluid.’
  • Cooking like a pioneer woman.
  • The cinnamon peeler’s life.
  • ‘it means joylessness, piety, self-regard, self-delusion and staggering pomposity.’
  • Ramen noodles, from beginning to end.
  • Cappuccino flavoured crisps.
  • Recipes from women chefs.
  • The language of menus.
  • In praise of the cast iron frying pan.
  • Tiny food sculptures.
  • A 1939 hamburger stand in Texas.
  • Cooking with hearts.
  • The moral economy of beer.
  • Arkansas is averse to bartenders.
  • Tidy your spice drawer.
  • Balzac on coffee.
  • A bacon themed restaurant in Montreal.
  • Buckfast ice cream.
  • The world’s most expensive cupcake.
  • Cricket flour.
  • No-churn ice cream cake.
  • Sylvia Plath on cake.

Aug 13

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Food Links, 13.08.2014

  • The problem with counterfeit seeds in Uganda.
  • Farming without fertiliser.
  • The threat to corn in the US.
  • On having anorexia and autism.
  • Are people in Scotland drinking less?
  • Bottled water comes from some of the driest parts of the US.
  • Gentrification and food deserts.
  • Should cooking be a human right?
  • How to save the banana.
  • The low carbon diet.
  • The effects of showing people how many sugar cubes  soft drinks contain.
  • The Fried Calamari Index.
  • Be careful of the Noakes diet. (In Afrikaans.)
  • Rethinking the word ‘foodie.’
  • The link between longevity and diet in Japan.
  • The Department of Coffee is opening new branches.
  • Food miles and the provisioning of Ancient Rome.
  • Toaster selfies.
  • Ranking American states through food.
  • Why are potatoes so popular in the US?
  • The end of cuisine.
  • When did vanilla become white?
  • The rise and rise of the Halal Guys.
  • On Modern Farmer.
  • ‘Unbearably bleak, it tastes as though someone has distilled the essence of a downtrodden woman with low self-esteem, then bottled it. ‘
  • The Pangraph.
  • Make your own harissa.
  • New ways of eating ice cream.
  • Frozen cocktails in Austin.
  • ‘The sprouts were not the only part of his kit that had to be specially bought. To protect his nose from rocky nooks and crannies, he wore a plastic nose guard.’
  • Gajjar ka murabba.
  • The surprising history of butter sculpture.
  • How to age beef at home.
  • What to do with a mountain of chard.
  • The joy of a toaster oven.
  • The Cakeway to the West.
  • Neanderthals ate birds. And soup. (Thanks, mum!)
  • Rethinking kitchen lore.
  • An abandoned satellite is being controlled by a group of people in an abandoned McDonald’s.
  • The Seducer’s Cookbook.
  • Use up bruised fruit.
  • Jam, jelly, marmalade, preserves, conserves.

Aug 6

Food Links, 06.08.2014

  • ‘It used to be the canary in the coal mine. Now it’s the oyster in the half shell.’
  • What is killing the bees?
  • Hunger in contemporary Britain.
  • How Big Food targets black and Latino youth in the US.
  • On the threat to Detroit’s water supply.
  • The Wellcome Trust has bought the Co-Op’s farms business.
  • A cafe on the border between China and North Korea.
  • Rates of physical activity among adults are declining.
  • Agricultural waste, climate change, and the implications for fishing in Lake Erie.
  • Kitchen essentials.
  • The drying of California.
  • The origins of the fish oil craze.
  • Nigeria’s first vegetarian and vegan restaurant.
  • Should toddlers be fed shakes as a nutritional supplement?
  • An interview with Betty Fussell.
  • Women who eat their placentas.
  • Photographs of the Hinterlands, an agricultural district near Brisbane.
  • Free Cakes for Kids.
  • A Taste of Data.
  • Photographing 45,000 bumblebees.
  • What alcohol looks like under the microscope.
  • A brief history of scarecrows.
  • Lemon meringue pie milkshakes.
  • Eating breakfast in New York City.
  • In praise of oatmeal.
  • Know your food tribes.
  • A guide to Kloof Street’s restaurants.
  • The re-embrace of Jewish-American deli food.
  • A recipe for Mograbia.
  • Sushi nail art.
  • Chocolate brains.
  • Cape Town’s best cafes.
  • Edible tableware and crockery.
  • How to slice a bagel.
  • Recipes for leftover berries.
  • An egg scale. (Thanks, mum!)
  • The best way to store whisks.
  • A colour-changing ice cream.
  • The London Review Cake Shop is holding a pickle competition.
  • Girdlebuster pie.
  • Hoecakes.
  • A dish of tea.
  • Eat more Greek yogurt.
  • Hamburger cupcakes.
  • A tree of many fruit.
  • Food infographics.

Jul 30

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Food Links, 30.07.2014

  • Rooibos tea has won geographic indicator status from the EU.
  • A food contamination scandal in China spreads abroad.
  • Restaurant workers’ wages are stagnating.
  • Stop telling women what to eat.
  • Britain’s contaminated chicken scandal.
  • The threat to Market Basket.
  • Refrigeration, dumplings, and climate change.
  • Is there such a thing as sustainable corn?
  • Two thirds of Americans are avoiding fizzy drinks.
  • Tesco and Tony Blair.
  • The all-mackerel diet.
  • Which meat should we eat?
  • Farm to counter.
  • Why is Nando’s so popular in the UK?
  • Recipes for a summer party.
  • Mustafa’s Sweet Dreams.
  • A nineteenth-century breast pump.
  • The burger joint name generator.
  • Whiskies from around the world.
  • Glass loaves.
  • London’s best park cafes.
  • Ending an addiction to Diet Coke.
  • Wole Soyinka on bread in Paris.
  • The difference between sorbet and sherbet.
  • The state of soul food.
  • Everything you need to open a hipster bar.
  • Where to eat in Boston.
  • New York’s 1859 Piggery War.
  • What a trendy restaurant looks like.
  • How restaurants increase sales in summer.
  • Lady at her breakfast.
  • Food not to throw away.
  • A guide to New York’s dive bars.
  • How to cook a basic pot of rice.
  • Things to know about spatulas and wooden spoons.
  • ‘Coconut water went from local skirmish to beverage fame despite what might seem like a major impediment: its flavour.’
  • Heirloom or hybrid?
  • Simpsons-themed wine bottles.
  • Spotting food trends.
  • Joan Didion on Martha Stewart.
  • What is so delightful about tiny food?
  • Cooking with olive oil.
  • Fat & Furious Burger
  • Oak brewed tea.
  • A celebration of ice cream.
  • Pineapple flowers.
  • A Roman nut tart.

Jul 23

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Food Links, 23.07.2014

  • Encouraging women farmers.
  • The UN has reduced refugees’ rations to 850 calories.
  • A new contaminated food scandal in China.
  • Give up beef massively to reduce carbon footprints.
  • It is possible and necessary to reduce antibiotic use in farming.
  • Detroit’s water crisis.
  • California’s water crisis.
  • Burritos are sandwiches.
  • Tipping should be banned.
  • The new Australian guide to healthy eating.
  • A South African guide to seasonal eating.
  • French restaurant bloggers are nervous.
  • Veganism and masculinities.
  • Crayfish can feel stress.
  • Subsisting on Soylent.
  • Purity, ghee, and cheese.
  • Whiskey and crisps with Nadine Gordimer.
  • ‘The anorexic changes her body into a symbol, thinking, wrongly, that this symbol will be recognized universally for what it represents to her.’
  • Baking with mashed potatoes.
  • How to buy white chocolate.
  • Cooking and eating during wartime rationing.
  • Thoughts on coffee.
  • Celebrating Germany’s World Cup victory with cake.
  • Semolina and loquat pudding.
  • In praise of sourdough bread.
  • Cooking for three generations.
  • Molly Wizenberg’s favourite recipe books and food blogs.
  • Selling ugly produce.
  • Crème légère.
  • New Tempting Ways to Serve Bananas.
  • ‘if your reason for saving a tomato seed is to preserve genetic diversity or to trade with other gardeners, you should know that there is a chance of your tomato seeds not coming true to type.’
  • On blancmange.
  • The kill-to-eat diet.
  • A beautiful wooden lobster.
  • How to make coconut milk.
  • A recipe book from the Urals.
  • Mrs Beeton’s soup recipes.
  • Listening to bees.
  • The joy of homemade ice cream.
  • Recipe substitutes.
  • Make your own ricotta.
  • A ten-layer ice cream cake.
  • Raspberry and redcurrant jam.

Jul 16

Food Links, 16.07.2014

  • The grotesque opulence of London’s restaurants.
  • The true cost of a burger.
  • America’s favourite foods. And Americans should eat more vegetables.
  • The value of school feeding programmes.
  • Why food in the US is becoming more expensive.
  • Will crickets be the next popular snack?
  • On Crumbs, a documentary about a South African bread cartel.
  • A sausage cartel.
  • There is a lot of sugar in soft drinks.
  • Will people switch to lab-grown meat?
  • The rise and rise of sour espresso?
  • Accidentally ingesting a poisonous plant.
  • A guide to African cuisines.
  • Baking with local flour.
  • Beenapping.
  • Silly restaurant names.
  • A secret sandwich loaf.
  • Culinary Canvas.
  • Testing chocolate hazelnut spread.
  • Cakes of bread.
  • A phone travels around the world in a shipment of grain.
  • Three pears.
  • A guide to summer fruit.
  • David Lebovitz on living in Paris.
  • Cosy apples.
  • A carpenter bee, covered in pollen.
  • How to confuse a tomato.
  • Recipe tattoos.
  • Brando and bacon.
  • How to grow liquorice.
  • The joy of British puddings.
  • The absinthe trail.
  • What was the ultimate medieval aphrodisiac?
  • Things to do with avocados.
  • Making Persian rice.
  • The women who have fed Austin.
  • How to make iced coffee.
  • ‘The crisp buoyed Britain in its darkest hour.’
  • Recipes from the Wellcome Library’s collections.
  • Byzantine rice pudding.
  • Photographs of street food in London.
  • Black battenberg.
  • ‘One British observer noted that the loss of coffee “afflicts the Confederates even more than the loss of spirits,” while an Alabama nurse joked that the fierce craving for caffeine would, somehow, be the Union’s “means of subjugating us.”’
  • A century of the fridge.
  • Thomas Jefferson’s recipe for vanilla ice cream.
  • Make your own vanilla extract.
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