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Tag: food
if you liked cavendish, should have put some anti-fungal genes in it.
Scientists have long feared that Tropical Race (TR) 4, a soil fungus that rots the Cavendish banana, will reach Latin America. That’s where the vast majority of the multi-billion $ banana export trade is based, and the source of nearly all the bananas consumed in the United States. And now, there’s more reason to worry.
#bork #bork #bork
another entrant in the sharing economy: a barter system for leftovers. it works much better than you’d think.
it’s built on the premise of people who don’t know each other sharing homemade food, with no money exchanged. Picture scaling that up to an entire city, far beyond anyone’s natural circle of trust.
by not charging they are doing an end run around health inspections. we’ll see how long that lasts. i have heard anecdotally that pro chefs are interested in this model because it would allow them to get rid of the parts of a restaurant that they aren’t as good at (getting a space, dealing with people etc) and just focus on the cooking.
Huy Fong Foods has neither employed a single salesman nor spent a cent on advertising. Advertising would merely widen the gap between demand and supply even further. ”I don’t advertise, because I can’t advertise”
amen.
the line, and the accompanying difficulty of getting a reservation, is a way of marketing the restaurant to potential customers. Which means the place needs marketing in some manner, which means its audience is in some way not so well-informed about where they ought to be eating. They tend to be trendy people who follow…lines. Conformists, in other words.
example: that stupid ramen place in nyc, ippudo.
Cross cultural understandings
Reallocating croplands away from fuels and animal feed could boost food available for people by 70% without clearing more land. The world’s croplands could feed 4B more people than they do now just by shifting from producing animal feed and biofuels to producing exclusively food for human consumption,
True Belgian waffles are here. So good!
they understood marketing through the stomach a long time ago in 1890:
The most legendary feature of the Cincinnati saloon was the free lunch. The foods were salty in character, which inevitably led patrons to purchase more beer with which to wash down the food.
reason 2348345 nyc >>> your city. a ramen tasting. i got some tickets 🙂 i especially liked the use of a french press & blowtorch, and yuji himself explaining the dishes in great detail. bonus: at the end, one of the cooks commented on my love to hate google reviews tshirt by saying it is a intimidating shirt for such an occasion. heh.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 