Interesting interview with Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemna, on local food systems, organic produce and the fabricated cult of convenience from ready-made everything.
This McDonalds Interactive announcement feels like a hoax. The domain name is owned by the same people who run the McDonald’s Video game and hosted at the same place in Italy.
You don’t want GM foods? Too bad, the EU and Monsanto say you’re getting them anyway.
Burger King let you make your own movies to promote their pseudo-chicken burgers, so I made my own.
Rice contaminated by GM has been on sale in Europe for months. The US government has known about this since January but has kept silent.
How organic is getting lost in the world of big business
An interesting article that goes some way into explaining why people don't change even when faced with overwhelming evidence they're heading at full speed towards an unstable if not deadly future.
An interesting article that goes some way into explaining why people don’t change even when faced with overwhelming evidence they’re heading at full speed towards an unstable if not deadly future.
Would a Robin Hood Restaurant work here? I doubt it. Just getting round the legal implications would be near-impossible.
Organic food is better for our health. On the flipside, some of it is less energy efficient, producing more emissions.
Synsepalum dulcificum, the miracle berry, makes sour foods taste sweet.
Interesting summary of the current dangers of biofuel use as well as future, more sustainable, directions the industry might take.
Organic farming can feed the world
Very interesting article on the myths of organic farming. It’s difficult to make an informed opinion though when the article takes several shortcuts. As usual, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Very interesting article on the myths of organic farming. It's difficult to make an informed opinion though when the article takes several shortcuts. As usual, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
This is surreal: a High Court judge has ruled that Pringles are not potato crisps in a debate over food tax.
If you want to do your bit for the environment, the best thing you can do is reduce your meat intake or completely eliminate it.
If you want to do your bit for the environment, the best thing you can do is reduce your meat intake or completely eliminate it.
Junk food may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine. Laboratory rats will endure painful electric shocks to satisfy their craving for high-calorie snacks.
Junk food may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine. Laboratory rats will endure painful electric shocks to satisfy their craving for high-calorie snacks.
A crop-killing fungus is spreading out of Africa towards the world’s great wheat-growing areas.
Big Meat vs. Michael Pollan.
Mainstream media continues down the clickbait-laden path of laziness.
Artist Kathleen Ryan creates decomposing fruit sculptures from precious gems. I love the absurdity of it.
An interesting history of palm oil and its presence in an obnoxious amount of processed products, not just food.
Campaigners tend to be more hostile towards palm oil than towards other tropical products such as cocoa and soy which also pose threats to ecosystems. He suggests that this hostility comes down to the fact that ‘palm oil is perceived as being in things, rather than a thing in its own right.’
I always hated the taste of truffles, or so I thought. It turns out nearly everything sold out there as containing truffles or truffle oil is just some cheap petroleum-derived product. And that includes in many higher-end restaurants.
Real truffles are incredibly rare and expensive:
Winter white truffle, or noble white truffle, is the most expensive and prized truffle. It can be found only in late autumn and winter, no earlier than September 15, no later than the end of January. The world's most famous winter white truffles are found in Alba, Italy, and Croatian Istria is also known for them.
Depending on how well the season was, this truffle can go for thousands of euros. In the case of large, first-class white truffles, the price per kilo comes close to 10,000 euros.
Maybe one day I'll taste the real thing and maybe I'll like it. Until then I'll keep avoiding anything with truffle in its name.
