Posts from the ‘links’ Category

Food Links, 30.07.2013

• ‘Locals have started calling the storms by their Arabic name, haboobs – presumably a nomenclature brought back by returning Iraq War veterans.’
• What it’s like to live on McDonald’s wages. And the scandal of McDonald’s suggested budget for its employees.
• Eating on £10 a week.
• Why the US must not scrap food stamps.
• The Gaza Kitchen.
• Soil tests are increasingly hard to come by in the US.
• The Cambodian villages destroyed by the sugar industry.
• Whole Foods vs Wal-Mart in the Bay Area.
• Can sustainable food feed the US?
• How climate change is transforming agriculture in Nepal.
• King Corn is eating up grassland in the US.
• An interview with Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi about their book Jerusalem.
• How common are double-yolkers?
• ‘The first hour of the fourth annual Cheesemonger Invitational was underway.’
• The design of The Breakfast Bible.
• The raisin seeder.
• Eating in São Paulo.
• On Mallorcas.
• Growing maize in Japan.
• Why do Twinkies last so long?
• Local ingredients, international dishes.
• Tea beer.
• The rising demand for camel milk.
• Paris is to get its first cat cafe.
• Are pay-what-you-like restaurants a good idea?
• A toast-themed bag.
• A profile of Alex Atala, Brazilian chef.
• A profile of Sanza Sandile, South African chef.
• ‘Kibbeh is the definitive Lebanese festive food.’
• Thomas Keller’s chicken brine.
• London’s best ice cream.
• Don’t drink and read.
• Elderflower cake.
• Make your own sodas.
• Weird flavours of ice cream.
• The Sandwich Book.
• Literaturwurst.
• Why do writers drink?
• ‘I keep wandering around New York City listening to “Papa Don’t Preach” to take my mind off my all-encompassing hunger‘.
• In praise of bread.
• Five novels about drinking.

Food Links, 24.07.2013

• Wal-Mart threatens to leave Washington DC if the city passes living wage legislation.
• Why can’t pigs be fed leftovers in the UK?
• Is Britain’s new school food programme destined to fail?
• ‘The number of people using food stamps [in the US] increased by an average of 13 percent a year from 2008 to 2012.’
• ‘Food Sovereignty Ghana and other domestic organisations accuse the US and other foreign donors of promoting GM foods to west African countries’.
• Why it’s worth being outraged about America’s new Farm Bill.
• Blogging about the messy business of raising livestock.
• Ramadan bread with dates.
• Queuing for food in Beijing in the 1970s.
• The joy of cooking invasives.
• Why do writers drink?
• Thomas Pynchon on mayonnaise.
• Who is Ruth Bourdain?
• The return of insects to the menus of Mexico’s restaurants.
• The slaughter of Extramadura’s black pigs.
• Is the British fry-up a national disgrace?
• Growing Chinese vegetables in … Kent.
• The food of Guadalajara, Mexico.
• Odd British dishes.
• Hemingway is Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. Tom Robbins is Taleggio.
• Eating wild animals in Adelaide.
• Eating horse in Moscow.
• Vintage McDonald’s menus.
• How to photograph food and drink.
• Why can food on airplanes be so awful?
• Smoked water.
• Jessica Valenti on antipasta.
• ‘Rose champagne is the intoxicant of choice for courtesans and kings.’
• How to make a Creme Egg.
• On ham.
• On citrus.
• How to be a vegetarian in Mongolia.
• The origins of Long Island Iced Tea.
• A woman takes her horse into McDonald’s.
• The best kale chips in Portland, Oregan.
• The Pizza Belt.
• A burger made out of wood.
• Eat more blackcurrants.

Food Links, 17.07.2013

• A lack of flood protection could undermine Britain’s food security.
• Should obesity be reclassified as a disease?
• An eBay for farmers.
• McDonald’s retreats from Bolivia.
• ‘An enormous amount of media space has been dedicated to promoting the notion that all processed food, and only processed food, is making us sickly and overweight.’
• Zoe Williams shreds Lord Freud’s appalling comments about food banks.
• Coke, Pepsi, and the rise of ‘philanthro-marketing.’
• Mark Bittman on Slow Food.
• ‘The Milanese can continue to enjoy their gelato without restrictions before or after midnight. There is no curfew and none was ever going to be put in place. All the misunderstandings will be cleared up.’
• Harvesting gum arabic.
• A month without Monsanto.
• How the Mexican pestle and mortars in American shops are made.
• The rise and rise of charity baking.
• What it’s like to work at a top-end restaurant.
• Bess Truman’s recipe for macaroni cheese.
• Chefs‘ last suppers.
• A month without a fork.
• ‘I’ve become the food super-ego for a lot of people.’
• Bauhaus-inspired food photography.
• A kitchen history of the ice pick.
• Cupcake fascism.
• Where to find excellent coffee in London.
• Who first cooked with chocolate in the US?
• Words that food writers should abandon forever.
• The many, many varieties of avocados.
• How to make peanut butter.
• Coffee explained by owls.
• Raspada de Mango
• Food trucks in Cape Town.
• Eating locusts in Israel.
• Photographs of grilling meat in Uruguay.
• Why food experiments are important.
• The politics of wine.
• The best coffee shop for writing.
• The producers of Yorkshire’s forced rhubarb.
• The Magnificent Chicken.
• A cake designed to look like a mess.
• South London’s best breakfasts.
• A quiz about carrots.

Food Links, 03.07.2013

• ‘Paula Deen knows who you were last summer. And the summer before that.’
• Climate change threatens maple syrup.
• Why the US is suddenly so interested in African agriculture.
• The problems with India’s new food bill.
• Marion Nestle on the UK’s new food labelling.
• ‘I fear that GM crops corporations…are using the “feed the world” argument as a Trojan horse for a new form of colonialism.’
• Starbucks pays its taxes.
• How Manchester Veg People is changing the food chain.
• Why supermarkets sell such a limited variety of apples.
• A new strain of salmonella enters the UK. (Thanks, Dad!)
• ‘I think it’s weird that I haven’t been served kangaroo here.’
• Coffee houses and the enlightenment.
• ‘The boundary between culinary and scientific uses of animals was slippery and at times indistinct.’
• A greenhouse made of out of sugar.
• ‘Sales of sports-nutrition products, most of them based on whey protein, have doubled since 2007 to reach £260m ($396m) last year.’
• Eating and art.
• Is your fridge killing you?
• Chez Panisse re-opens.
• Salt in Slovenia.
• Why is iced coffee so expensive?
• How to make a DNA double helix from jelly babies and liquorice.
• The rise and rise of ramps.
• An (imagined) discussion between Martha Stewart and Tom Waits.
• How to make beghrir.
• The growing popularity of southern biscuits.
• On eating snails.
• Wine tasting is junk science.
• Food Photographer of the Year 2013.
• How to eat tomato soup.
• Sugar-based street art in Brazil.
• The best way to measure flour.
• The history of the strawberry shortcake.
• Eating in Vietnam.
• Can a bicycle power a toaster?
• How to organise your fridge.
• Soak fruit in … honey to prevent it from going brown. (Thanks, Meri!)

Food Links, 26.06.2013

• Cadbury, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Heinz all refuse to take part in the UK’s new food labelling scheme.
• ‘Obesity levels among women in Ghana trebled over fifteen years, from 10% in 1993 to 30% in 2008.’
• Rethinking the food bank.
• Making processed food look imperfect.
• Is the coconut water boom benefiting farmers?
• Full Planet, Empty Plates.
• How do we taste things?
• The food boom in the Rust Belt.
• ‘It was part of Fujimoto‘s job to fly North Korean jets around the world to procure dinner-party ingredients—to Iran for caviar, Tokyo for fish, or Denmark for beer.’
• Get the Look: Cobb Salad.
• The psychology of restaurant menus.
• The Police Diet Squad.
• Odd food additives.
• London’s food entrepreneurs.
• A review of Jeremy Hugh Baron’s The Stomach: A Biography.
• The iFlask.
• Chinese restaurants in French small towns.
• Growing lemons in Amalfi.
• Nigeria’s taste for Champagne.
• The restaurant that relies entirely on donations.
• Coffee pot trucks.
• Where to find fruit trees in Melbourne.
• A brief history of ketchup.
• The International Banana Museum.
• Alison Moore on food and eating.
• Where to buy the best bread in Paris.
• Pies.
• The science of cocktails.
• Pudding recipes.
• Waxing lyrical about coffee.
• The gentrification of fast food.
• What famous musicians eat backstage.
• How to keep an open bottle of champagne fizzy.
• #PaulasBestDishes
• A Burger King for pigeons. (Thanks, Ester!)

Food Links, 19.06.2013

• ‘the honey bee controversy should … lead us to contemplate two broader issues. Namely, the experts on whom we rely and the orientation we take to government regulation.’
• The UK is to introduce a coherent system of food labelling.
• Growing fruit and vegetables in cities.
• Coffee rust is threatening half of Central America’s coffee crop.
• ‘Cameron, having enjoyed a fine (and taxpayer-funded?) meal, sees nothing wrong with sharing this fact with an austerity-scarred public.’
• More than a third of Britain’s honeybees did not survive winter.
• The health benefits of Canada‘s state-controlled drinking.
• Children who learn to cook, eat better as adults.
• The lake threatening Ethiopia’s sugar cane ambitions.
• Crowdfunding…Soylent.
• Hyperspectral imaging: useful for finding Osama bin Laden and extending the life of cake.
• A brief history of pasta.
• On eating locally.
• India has the highest consumption of rum in the world.
• Proof Americans love bacon.
• What do feelings taste like? (And how to eat those feelings.)
• A Vogue writer attempts to go vegan.
• Jelly bean ice cream.
• Glazing vegetables.
• The evolution of the wine bottle.
• Street food in Singapore.
• Should tipping be banned? (Thanks, Lindie.)
• Get the Look: Jell-O Salad.
• What does one billion-year-old water taste like?
• Entertaining during the 1970s.
• Pasta by Design.
• Recipes for maftoul.
• Cakes inspired by science.
• These are courtesy of my Mum: what grandmothers around the world cook; making 2,000-year-old bread.

Food Links, 12.06.2013

1. It’s very, very hard to run a food truck in New York. | 2. ‘the bosses from Seoul began slipping their North Korean workers a Choco Pie or two as a perk.’ | 3. ‘The Chinese corporation Shuanghui International … has just bought US giant Smithfield, the globe’s largest hog producer and pork packer, in a $4.7 billion cash deal.’  | 4. Half a million Britons are using food banks. | 5. On granola. | 6. Jeppson’s Malort. | 7. Are wild, edible plants more nutritious than cultivate varieties? | 8. Espresso drinks, deconstructed. | 9. Gin does not make you sad. | 10. The new fashion for chocolate bags. | 11. The ramp harvest. | 12. ‘One day I will live like a vegan Gwyneth, another day I will eat like a child of Gwyneth.’ | 13. How to de-seed and juice pomegranates. | 14. Georgian pound cake. | 15. Japanese prison food. | 16. ‘Like tulips in Holland, chickens were once the subject of near-insane interest and wild financial speculation.’ | 17. The art of bees. | 18. 3D-printed sugar. | 19. How to brew coffee.

Food Links, 05.06.2013

1. Why British fishermen cannot rely on the shellfish boom. | 2. Byron, BrewDog, and the recuperation of radical aesthetics. | 3. Michael Pollan’s rose-tinted view of domesticity. | 4. Eat less meat for the good of the planet..  | 5. The plight of the honeybee. (And how bumblebees – whose numbers are being boosted – can help to save this year’s UK strawberry crop.) | 6. On cast iron pans. | 7. The growing interest in brewed coffee. | 8. The taco waffle. | 9. Mumbai’s Parsi cafe culture. | 10. Urban chicken coops. | 11. The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative. (And mapping Africa’s soil diversity.) | 12. A brief history of Angostura bitters. | 13. Collectable wedding cake. | 14. Blueberry tall pie. | 15. Hackney’s boutique spoon whittler. | 16. On #guardiancoffee. | The return of the prune.

Food Links, 29.05.2013

1. Hunger in Malawi. | 2. Photographs of what families around the world eat in a week. | 3. German brewers object to fracking. | 4. The growing, global backlash against Monsanto. | 5. Fifty ways to close a food bank. (And the crisis in UK food banks.) | 6. ‘In the United States, domesticated bee populations have reached a 50-year low and keep dwindling.’ | 7. The revival of the Scottish beer industry. | 8. What is chicken fried steak? | 9. The mold which caused the Irish potato famine seems to have been eradicated. | 10. George Orwell makes tea, in a trench, in the Spanish Civil War. (Thanks, Joshua!) | 11. In praise of chickpeas. | 12. On Chardonnay. | 13. A banana-themed quiz in honour of the return of Arrested Development. | 14. Tamale Spaceship. | 15. Rainbow cheesecake.