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I for one welcome our robotic Panda Express chef overlords

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Instant ramen FTW

Where Steaming Fried Noodles Spell Relief. (Behind the NY Times Pay Wall) Nutritionists and the diet-conscious have made instant ramen a noodle non grata. One packet contains about half the maximum...

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Oh yeah? How about I start demanding a “taste shortage chargeback”?!?

Unwanted New Item on Menu: Higher Prices. (WSJ) At Thomas Keller’s esteemed restaurant Per Se, the prix fixe has quietly jumped to $295 from $275. At sandwich chain ‘wichcraft, the price of a bag of...

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Freeze-dried future

Freeze-dried food and the new frugal frontier. (LA Times) Costco’s Great Gift Ideas catalogue last Christmas included a one-year, four-person supply of dehydrated and freeze-dried food on sale for...

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Big Sugar

Is Sugar Toxic? (Behind NY Times paywall) It doesn’t hurt Lustig’s cause that he is a compelling public speaker. His critics argue that what makes him compelling is his practice of taking suggestive...

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The last letter in the movie title went Galt

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Another food hoax

The “No Nitrites Added” Hoax. (Ruhlman) Please, if someone can tell me what is wrong with nitrates (in green vegetables) and nitrites (in curing salts and in our bodies, a powerful antimicrobial agent...

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Yelp rot

A Rave, a Pan, or Just a Fake? This reads like a rave on Yelp, but it’s actually a sample from a help-wanted ad on another site — specifically, Mechanical Turk, a Web site owned by Amazon.com and a...

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Death produce

Europe’s E. coli Outbreak Continues to Grow. (Food Safety News) Officials at the University Hospital in Gronigen, Netherlands got a call Tuesday from the Bremen hospital — just over the border in...

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The end of seafood

Information is Beautiful: Plenty More Fish In The Sea? (Guardian UK) So this is a kind of collective social amnesia that allows over-exploitation to creep up and increase decade-by-decade without...

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Mariner: Dry land is a myth

After Wild Weather, Higher Food Prices On Horizon. (NPR) Throughout April and May, U.S. farmers faced floods, tornadoes, downpours and droughts — all of which made planting difficult. Now in June,...

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I’d like a single plum floating in perfume served in a man’s hat

Food Fight! (WSJ) Why was a small boîte in Copenhagen crowned the best restaurant in the world for the second year in a row? And how does it stack up against the best restaurant in America?...

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I have a dream

Living The Dream: The Truth About Life Inside Food Carts. (NPR) Squish Durawa owns Wy’East Pizza in Portland, turning out artisan pies from a 64-square-foot trailer. He tells me he loves what he does,...

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It’s difficult to eat reverse spherical food family style

Alton Brown: Molecular gastronomy won’t replace cooking basics (Restaurant News) “My worry about molecular gastronomy, especially with young cooks, is that they will try to use it to replace knowing...

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This has the potential to be our generation’s Woodstock

Taco Bell Has an 85 Million Taco Shell Reserve Prepared for Doritos Onslaught. (Gizmodo)

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