Food Links, 20.04.2011
Annia Ciezaldo investigates what a ‘Mediterranean diet’ really is, and asks if actually exists (particularly in the Mediterranean).
Jay Rayner reviews Gordon Ramsay’s revamped Savoy Grill.
Big food companies lobby the US government in the same way as the tobacco and gun industries. This article exposes the tactics of the American Beverage Association, the lobbying arm of the country’s softdrink companies.
Tom Philpott discusses the recent report by Bon Appetit on the conditions of farm labourers in the US.
Anna Lappe encourages consumers to pressure governments to fund sustainable, climate-friendly agriculture.
I’m fascinated by the American counter-culture movement’s enthusiasm for ‘whole’ food and sustainable agriculture during the 1960s and 1970s. Melissa Coleman has written what sounds like a riveting memoir of growing up on her parents’ pioneering organic farm. (Her father, Eliot Coleman, is something of an organic guru. Yes, I chose ‘guru’ deliberately.)
GOOD provides a useful guide to the best metaphors invented by British restaurant critics.
‘for all its monuments to material consumption, this town is a culinary desert or, perhaps more accurately, parking lot’ – Nic Dawes eviscerates the Joburg restaurant scene.
Tangerine and Cinnamon 