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Mar 19

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Food Links, 19.03.2014

  • ‘The days bled into years. Hang. Rehang. Pull guts.’
  • There is still widespread mislabelling of meat sold in the UK.
  • McDonald’s employees are suing the chain.
  • A photo essay on the fishermen of Kalk Bay in Cape Town.
  • Does it matter that there is azodicarbonamide in a lot of processed food?
  • ‘Behind the counter at a café sit two five-gallon tanks of bottled water hooked up to the coffee machines. At a local eatery, when I order a soda, the bartender explains that it comes from the tap. “Are you sure you don’t just want bottled water?” he asks.’
  • Nogales and America’s supply of vegetables.
  • The ‘meatification‘ of our diets.
  • The rising price of breakfast.
  • On Pizza Hut’s 2,880-calorie pizza.
  • ‘Thousands of young people in Britain have been forced to go without food or other essentials after their benefits were wrongly stopped under a “draconian” new sanctions regime’.
  • FoodCycle.
  • How common is salmonella in eggs?
  • Food waste around the world.
  • McDonald’s in Vietnam.
  • How to make strawberries delicious again.
  • The bacon-scented alarm clock.
  • The five-second rule is worth obeying.
  • It’s alright to eat sugar – in moderation (even is it the worst thing in the world).
  • ‘He had bet he could drink 15 absinthes in succession while eating a kilo of beef. After the ninth, Théophile Papin, of Ivry, collapsed.’
  • World’s End Pie.
  • ‘I used to say that all I had left in life was my integrity and my cleavage. Now it’s just my integrity.’ Rest in Peace, Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmeralda Dickson Wright.
  • The rise and rise of Japanese cuisine.
  • Why add chicory to coffee?
  • Hampton Court’s chocolate kitchen.
  • Cooking with Harper Lee. (Thanks, mum!)
  • The first ‘British‘ restaurant in China.
  • An appeal for help about potatoes.
  • Deborah Levy’s Diary of a Steak.
  • Why is caffeine so addictive?
  • Cookbooks as science fiction.
  • The significance of tea jars in Japan up until the end of the seventeenth century.
  • Lentil cookies.
  • How to be a vegetarian in Paris.
  • Eating terrible food with the super rich.
  • Maps of countries made of their national foods.
  • What to do with leftover mashed potato.
  • Where to drink coffee in Chicago.
  • The EU may ban foreign cheese manufacturers from using names like ‘feta’ and ‘Parmesan’.
  • Five ways to use one batch of bread dough.
  • Understanding umami.

Mar 12

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Food Links, 12.03.2014

  • Gas companies are putting Mozambican fishermen out of business.
  • The GOP has abandoned farmers.
  • A tale of two food bank vouchers.
  • The Thai seafood industry uses slave labour.
  • The crisis in California’s agricultural sector.
  • Alcohol and apartheid.
  • How China became the world’s largest pork producer.
  • A woman designed the paper bag.
  • McDonald’s tries to encourage Europeans to buy its breakfasts.
  • ‘Pepsi was perceived by the population as a Soviet product, and Soviet products were truly bad. While Pepsi was reasonably good, it was not as good as Western Pepsi.’
  • More people are making moonshine in the US.
  • Why did adult humans start drinking milk?
  • Salted caramel cream puffs with warm chocolate sauce.
  • With a pinch of salt.
  • Eat more roadkill.
  • Eat more grapefruit.
  • An amazing pizza box.
  • How to make your own butter.
  • Egg puns.
  • The town which grows half of America’s mushrooms.
  • How well do you know your ancient grains?
  • A sandwich for each state in the US.
  • How not to get fat.
  • The evolution of pastrami in New York.
  • Making mozzarella.
  • The etymology of ‘hangover‘.
  • Dutch food is the best in the world.
  • Make your own kimchi.
  • How rotten food has changed history.
  • Who drinks what.
  • On Lee Miller‘s enthusiasm for cooking.
  • Soon it’ll be possible to buy Soylent.
  • The Kit Kat shop in Tokyo.
  • On marmalade. (Thanks, dad!)
  • Repurposed Pizza Huts.
  • Cooking with Frida Kahlo.
  • What if every state in the US has its own meat?
  • How to cook with teff.
  • A list of women in the food world for International Women’s Day.
  • Make your own preserved lemons.
  • Degeneration and drink.
  • What people ate and drank in Pompeii. (Thanks, mum!)

Mar 5

Food Links, 05.03.2014

  • ‘An estimated 174 million people in southern Africa – almost two thirds of the total population – lack access to basic latrines, while more than 100 million go without clean drinking water.’
  • Sugar does not kill more South Africans than HIV/AIDS.
  • The implications of the crisis in Ukraine for global grain prices.
  • A diet high in protein and animal fat may not be very good for you.
  • ‘Starving and drenched journalists ate 250kg of chips and 700 pieces of chicken on the opening day of the Oscar Pistorius trial.’
  • On Food4Patriots.
  • Class and sustainable food.
  • Organic and non-organic produce have the same nutritional value.
  • Why is thinness the ultimate female ambition?
  • Using Instagram to sell sheep in Kuwait.
  • The adulteration of Italian olive oil.
  • The marketing of yogurt to women.
  • A response to Tim Noakes.
  • Substitutes for egg.
  • The trials and tribulations of running a stall at a farmers’ market.
  • Creating a market for skimmed milk.
  • American beer is getting better.
  • A recipe for baked feta.
  • Durian has gone on sale in the UK.
  • Food textures.
  • ‘He complained that his wife was “unable to lunch elsewhere” because she was wearing a tiara.’
  • A Renaissance recipe for panzanella.
  • Make your own coffee creamer.
  • China’s growing enthusiasm for food museums.
  • A breakfast menu as a Venn diagram.
  • The return of the soufflé.
  • Tips for biscuit baking.
  • Chinese charcuterie.
  • The chemistry of Sriracha.
  • Terrible food photography.
  • Diet fads.
  • Birkbeck’s wine society.
  • The man who delivered pizza to the Oscars was tipped $1,000.
  • Teff, the new fashionable grain.
  • The first cat cafe in North America is in Montreal.
  • Americans prefer mayonnaise to ketchup.
  • The Kitchen of Tomorrow.
  • London’s best new chocolate shop.
  • Pancakes in the shape of parasites, and butterflies.
  • Facts about (mainly processed) food.
  • Bindaetteok.
  • A brief history of marshmallows.
  • A brief history of popcorn.
  • How best to make Buffalo wings.
  • Rembrandt‘s ‘The Pancake Woman.’ (Thanks, mum!)
  • Mary Beard on her milkman.
  • Pizza feminism.
  • A coffee in a cake.
  • New breakfast trends in London.
  • A custard recipe inspired by the Geffrye Museum in London.
  • How to make a King Cake for Mardi Gras.

Feb 26

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Food Links, 26.02.2014

  • Do high food prices predict political upheaval?
  • There has been a 43% drop in the obesity rate among two- to five-year-old children in the US.
  • ‘In a survey of 522 GPs [in the UK], the magazine Pulse found that 16 per cent had been asked to refer a patient to food bank in the past 12 months.’
  • Food poverty shames Britain.
  • ‘doctors are having to prescribe food supplements to HIV patients ensure that their medication works’.
  • Spanish farmers battle invasive snails.
  • Residues of drugs found in meat.
  • Artificial sweeteners are used extensively.
  • Denmark bans kosher and halal slaughter.
  • China has given up its policy of being self-sufficient in grain.
  • The Freedom Bakery.
  • Brick Lane in under threat.
  • Cooking on a budget.
  • Chinese internet companies are investing in organic agriculture.
  • The best doughnut shops in the US.
  • The joy of Spam.
  • Julia Child ‘edits‘ video tape.
  • Standard household measures.
  • Vegan cheesecake.
  • How to cook meat.
  • Should we return to the diets eaten by our ancestors?
  • How to save money on your food shopping.
  • The Vegetable Orchestra.
  • A Walkman sold inside a bottle of water.
  • Music guaranteed to increase cows’ milk production.
  • A sheep table.
  • Zadie Smith on ordering food in New York.
  • Why Long Beach in California fought to save a giant doughnut.
  • A craft beer quiz.
  • Budget bistros in Paris.
  • What to do with a Buddha’s Hand.
  • Recreating recipes from the 1950s.
  • What does camel milk taste like?
  • Art remade as cake.
  • Predicting the future of Hershey’s chocolate.
  • Chef and cooks’ favourite recipe books.
  • A photo essay on the fridge.
  • How does caffeine work?
  • Neil Gaiman reads Green Eggs and Ham.
  • Homemade reese bars.
  • Milk in your coffee?

Feb 19

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Food Links, 19.02.2014

  • Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s claims that child hunger has reduced significantly in South Africa, are incorrect.
  • Chevron Appalachia compensates residents for an explosion with … pizza.
  • Cocoa-nomics.
  • Urban agriculture in downtown Joburg.
  • A Lucky Fish and reducing rates of anaemia.
  • Another fake food scandal in the UK.
  • ‘What has been the staff of life is now perceived as the spirit of disease’.
  • Don’t drink too much water.
  • On alcohol brands and art.
  • Sexually transmitted food poisoning.
  • Why do Americans eat so little rabbit?
  • Some vitamins and supplements worth taking.
  • Three people were arrested after a brawl over a pork pie at a Bradford wedding reception.
  • The queen of borscht.
  • How to cook with insects.
  • Do you drink Beaujolais?
  • What to do with cocoa nibs.
  • Gourmet butter.
  • Criticism of the Michelin guide.
  • British and American bacon.
  • Delicious food from Taiwan.
  • What it’s like to work at Tartine in San Francisco.
  • Food in fiction, a quiz.
  • ‘Louisiana Congressman Robert Broussard proposed importing hippopotamuses from Africa and settling them in the bayous of Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana to assuage America’s carnivorous ills’.
  • How to force strawberries.
  • ‘John Dando’s insatiable appetite frequently put him in prison.’
  • Eating zakuski.
  • How to roast a goat in the ground.
  • Food as art.
  • Rumbledethumps.
  • Why do we tend to underbake?
  • Twenty uses for banana peels.
  • A 123 year-old recipe for apricot jam.
  • How to turn a chicken into a dinosaur.

Feb 12

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Food Links, 12.02.2014

  • The complicated process of signing up for Food Stamps.
  • Tobacco, guns, and food.
  • The politics of meat in South Africa.
  • Vegetables are not elitist.
  • The return of the Dust Bowl.
  • Do not take DNP to lose weight.
  • How many hours of minimum wage work it takes to earn a beer.
  • More than half the advertisements shown by South Africa’s national broadcaster are for junk food.
  • What happened when California legalised selling food made at home.
  • ‘The Netherlands ranked as the easiest country in the world in which to find a balanced, nutritious diet.’
  • How tastes have changed in the wake of the horsemeat scandal.
  • The rise and rise of bluefin tuna.
  • Why it’s so difficult to ascertain what’s good to eat.
  • A new, simpler test for coeliac disease.
  • The dark side of the truffle trade.
  • Getting married at the Iowa Bacon Festival.
  • A review of Andrea Stuart’s Sugar in the Blood.
  • What writers eat in Paris.
  • Cooking with maple syrup.
  • Taking babies to restaurants.
  • Americans discover squid. And Marmite.
  • Travels in German food.
  • Don’t knock Nando’s.
  • ‘Kasabian have revealed that a track on their as-yet-untitled new album, due this summer, contains lyrical reference to last year’s horsemeat scandal’.
  • The earliest African-American cookbooks.
  • Did you celebrate World Nutella Day?
  • Where to eat breakfast and brunch in Melbourne.
  • ‘Three-quarters of France’s 110,000 restaurants now include burgers on their menus.’
  • How to open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew.
  • Artisanal toast.
  • Are Italians changing their eating habits?
  • Planetary structural layer cake.
  • The best breakfast for a hangover.
  • Dumb Starbucks.
  • Americans love pizza.
  • Why food smells so good when you’re very hungry.
  • The origins of the myth of having to drink eight glasses of water a day.
  • Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida’s photographs of small people with food.
  • A guide to tea from Africa.
  • Goats in jerseys.
  • On fonio.
  • Where to eat and drink in London.
  • Vegan comfort food.
  • Where does your tuna come from? (Thanks, mum!)
  • Edward Hopper’s ‘Tables for Ladies‘.
  • Thug Kitchen. (Thanks, Steph!)

Feb 5

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Food Links, 05.02.2014

  • Food banks now issue ‘kettle boxes‘.
  • A week spent on food stamps.
  • Does an aging global population jeopardise food security?
  • The EU has agreed to tackle food speculation – with no help from the UK.
  • ‘Employees of fast-food restaurants stayed low-income forever.’
  • Pesticides are making bees smaller.
  • World food statistics in maps.
  • Buckfast and crime.
  • ‘Cadbury, the UK’s biggest chocolate maker, opposed Nestle’s 2010 application to trademark the four-fingered chocolate, which sold 40 million pounds ($66 million) worth of bars a year between 2008 and 2010 in the UK.’
  • Wheat does not make people fat and sick.
  • Don’t count calories.
  • Fruit juice is evil. Apparently.
  • The internet of bees.
  • Superfoods do not exist.
  • Michael Pollan disagrees with the Paleo diet.
  • ‘Unesco’s citation praises washoku’s distinctive social and cultural characteristics.’
  • Butter v margarine.
  • Coffee helps to improve memory.
  • A review of Sophia Waugh’s Cooking People.
  • The man who invented the Body Mass Index.
  • Cooking and baking in 3D.
  • Drinking horchata in Nigeria, Spain, and Mexico.
  • Dutch people drink the most coffee.
  • Skirret pie.
  • A map of London’s first coffee houses.
  • MSG is not a dangerous toxin.
  • Peckham’s Mexican cheesemaker.
  • How to pair wine and vegetables.
  • Eat more watercress.
  • A guide to comparing Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
  • Recipes for kale.
  • How to get a table at the best Parisian restaurants.
  • Odd crisp flavours.
  • On Coca Cola’s Superbowl advertisement.
  • A recipe from Ancient Rome.
  • The Beerhouse in Cape Town.
  • Why we like sugar.
  • A recipe for Apple Tansey.
  • Molly Wizenberg on how to feed a baby.
  • Famous restaurant dishes to make at home.
  • The British Kebab Awards.
  • How to cook for crowds.
  • Veggie Ipsum. (Thanks, Rob!)
  • Making cheese in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Plum and ricotta tart.
  • A Beyoncé-themed menu.
  • The doughscuit.
  • Russian and Polish cheese labels.
  • How to turn pasta into a rocket.
  • Eating al desko.

Jan 29

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Food Links, 29.01.2014

  • The implications of falling bee populations for food security.
  • ‘The worst is being hungry. We rationed rice for four months one summer. A half cup a day each. You are shaky and can’t function well.’
  • Three freegans have been charged with theft.
  • ‘Forced to cut back on everything, she can’t even afford fuel to cook: “I just live on sandwiches. It feels like persecution”.’
  • Injecting antibiotics into eggs.
  • The politics of beer in Thailand.
  • The poverty line was designed on the assumption that ‘the housewife will be a careful shopper, a skillful cook, and a good manager who will prepare all the family’s meals at home.’
  • Mapping the consequences of global meat consumption.
  • What should we eat?
  • On freedom and the sugar tax.
  • ‘Lifesize cardboard cutouts of doctors and nurses in a supermarket caused a spike in sales of healthy food’.
  • The rise and rise of Domino’s Pizza in the UK.
  • The dangers of flatulent cows.
  • Why farmers eat badly.
  • Will Japan end its subsidisation of rice farmers?
  • Fewer young Britons are drinking.
  • The market for canned soup is shrinking.
  • What is the greenest substitute for cow’s milk?
  • Bill de Blasio eats pizza with a knife and fork.
  • On cherry pie.
  • 3D-printed pasta. And cake.
  • ‘the American Chinese restaurant – and especially the sprawling chaos of the Chinese buffet – has never been an entirely neutral gathering place.’
  • David Lynch cooks quinoa.
  • Starbucks has a new strategy.
  • Photographs of diners in New York City.
  • Writers and rum.
  • A pay-per-minute cafe in London.
  • The food of the Faroe Islands.
  • An interview with Oliver Peyton.
  • There’s a shortage of Velveeta. And rhubarb may disappear.
  • Close-ups of bees.
  • Making Japanese food in Sweden. (Thanks, Mum!)
  • Whale-flavoured beer.
  • A 1951 recipe book from the National Livestock and Meat Board.
  • How to make a manhattan.
  • A restaurant offering weed and sushi pairings.
  • Homemade cheese.
  • The world’s most expensive food.
  • A profile of Yotam Ottolenghi.
  • Grow your own cheese.
  • Veganuary.
  • The first Trappist brewery outside of Europe has opened in Boston.
  • Where to drink coffee in Dublin.
  • How to cook with blood.
  • Australia‘s first cat cafe.
  • The peanut butter jellyfish.
  • Is dry January really worth it?

Jan 22

Food Links, 22.01.2014

Jan 15

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Food Links, 15.01.2014

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