Food Links, 16.05.2012
How to control global food commodity trading.
A spike in food prices is predicted for 2013.
Egypt’s kitchen uprising. (Thanks, Stephanie!)
How Mexican food became American. (Thanks, Hester!)
How poor women in rural India cope with food shortages.
Coke and Pepsi change their recipes – to avoid a cancer warning.
The dark side of soya.
What the world eats.
An entirely edible recipe book.
The vogue for squirrel meat and other forms of game. (Thanks, Milli!)
Why going to dinner with a foodie is an ordeal.
Edible silk sensors to monitor your food.
A pasta-naming game.
Sketch gets a makeover from Martin Creed.
The British government must not undermine efforts to stop the exploitation of agricultural workers.
How the conditions in which pigs are kept in the United States may be improving.
Heston Blumenthal explains the revamp of the Fat Duck.
In South Africa, bottled water is more expensive than petrol – so why its popularity?
The Middle Class Handbook on Sunday night supper.
The eight kinds of drunkenness, by Thomas Nashe.
Vodka made out of quinoa.
Should one rinse mushrooms?
A strange new phenomenon in the Middle East: children who are malnourished and obese.
How well does the language of wine tasting describe wine?
Why Big Food must go.
Five grains which could help to feed the world.
Baked beans in Maine.
Is ice cream as addictive as cocaine?
Meat theft is on the rise in the United States.
The return of the pressure cooker. (Thanks, Mum!)
What it looks like to eat on a dollar a day.
The politics of cinema snacks.
Mitt Romney’s diet.
Dictator cakes for Amnesty International.
Olivier de Schutter recommends five ways to fix unhealthy diets.
How to make your own pita bread.
Not your grandmother’s yogurt.
Aliens secretly study humanity under the guise of a 1960s sandwich recipe book.
Osman’s shanty bar, Istanbul.
Why we have sliced bread.
Know your pasta shapes.
A new documentary about Detroit’s urban farms.
Fancy dress as a side of bacon. From 1894.
How to make a chocolate model of your brain.
Tangerine and Cinnamon 