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...
View ArticleOh 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...
View ArticleFreeze-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...
View ArticleBig 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleYelp 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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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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMariner: 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,...
View ArticleI’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?...
View ArticleI 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,...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleThis 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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