Tag: food

Miracle of Feeding Cities

this is a documentary i’m particularly looking forward to:

The Miracle of Feeding Cities will bring to life the often-invisible, always intricate food system–a system that operates non-stop with remarkable reliability despite myriad disruptions, capricious consumer behavior and rogue weather events. And, underlying this fast-paced, globally integrated supply chain, you’ll see plain old barter economics and a service-based industry run by the most unexpected and captivating characters you could hope to encounter.

The origins of junk food

Just about any processed food with a shelf life of more than a couple of days probably has its origins in the Natick Center

Guy Fieri seeks respect

amusing overall, but i lawled at

It’s gotta feel pretty bawse to roll up to school in a Camaro. I bet the other kids shit their Minecraft undies at the sight of it.

Make humans smaller

at 50cm, humans would consume 2% of the food and fuel we do now.

being smaller would have huge benefits for spacefaring humanity too

Juiced

on the stupidity of paying $25 for a lunch of vegetable shavings and a smoothie made of Swiss chard, cashew milk and Himalayan salt.

Food allergy fakers need to stop

coming from the same circle of hell as vintage filters:

For the love of Julia Child, please, please stop describing your food preferences as an allergy. That is a very specific medical term, and invoking it triggers an elaborate, time-consuming protocol in any self-respecting kitchen. It shouldn’t be tossed around as liberally as the sea salt on the house-made (gluten-free) breadsticks.

Poor fast food

the poorest kids get the smallest share of their daily energy intake from Big Macs, Whoppers, Chicken McNuggets, and french fries.

Paleo is BS

The idea that prehistoric people didn’t eat grain “is just wrong. It’s misinformed. People ate what they could get their hands on. Eating is surviving.”

Egg board corruption

The American Egg Board’s members are appointed by the FDA, and it was they who funded a secret, deceptive smear campaign against startup Hampton Creek’s vegan egg replacement.

From paying food bloggers to post egg-heavy recipes to buying Google ads that returned results for eggs to people searching for Hampton Creek, to lobbying food experts, animal-rights activists and others to speak out in favor of the poultry industry, the AEB pulled out all the stops to undermine their competition.

Salad fools

Do you like salad? You’re a fool. Salad vegetables are nutrition-lite, resource-guzzling, pseudo-healthy food crimes that enable the overconsumption of blue cheese dressing.