January 2012
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Southern Foodways Alliance →
I’m blown away: the SFA has put together an amazing collection of oral histories, videos, interactive maps, and more detailing the past and present of southern food. What’s more, they spell out guidelines and tips for contributing your own interviews to the project.
Whether you want to know the history of boudin, curious about what’s new in Southern artisanal cheese, or are...
December 2011
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Texts from last night, Martha Stewart Living...
Me: This Press N' Seal wrap is out of control.
Mom: Makes you want to make a big ole batch of something just to get the leftovers. Bet you just can't wait to unwrap that lunchie.
Me: I know! All I can think about is sausages and burgers and if its safe to do sous vide. Wondering if the Glad product placements in Top Chef have something to do with it. Between that, all the baking I've been doing, and the lemon curd, really feeling the Martha Stewart vibe.
Mom: That's my boy! No Sunday night football for you. Bed time soon, and sweet dreams of napkin rings and tarts tatins.
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“It’s like Betty Crocker and Charles Manson had a love child and he’s...”
– Tony Bourdain as guest judge on Top Chef season 2
November 2011
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UCB Tackles NY Foodie Culture with 'Pig: A... →
Foodie culture satire has become a sub-genre unto itself: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s The Trip had some great little jests at British haute cuisine and the web series Foodies does a great job poking fun at American food snobs and their social challenges.
Now, Upright Citizens Brigade takes on the New York dining scene with Pig: A Restaurant, a short, one-woman play about the chefs,...
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Taco Bell
Love theis idea, and awesome, if somewhat tedious, execution.
Cormac McCarthy’s Yelp reviews
yelpingwithcormac:
Financial District - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
And so the man defied the villagers and ate the taco. In defiance of the will of those people but also in defiance of some order older than he. Older than tortillas. Than the...
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Adapting Local Traditions for Improving Nutrition →
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Cooking our way out of the recession →
A new program in Chicago focuses on giving the unemployed a new start in culinary arts and hospitality. I’d love to wax poetic about the joys and self-improvement by learning how to cook, but with Chicago’s unemployment rate at 11.2% (compared to a national average of 9%), it’s all about the bottom line:
When asked what attracted him to the program, one participant named ...
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WatchBehind the scenes at artificial and natural flavoring behemoth Givaudan
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Family Upgrades To Shells & Cheese →
MOBILE, AL— After years of eating regular Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, the Conroy family upgraded Monday to the higher-end Velveeta Shells & Cheese. “We’ve finally arrived,” said wife Beverly Conroy while serving up a heaping bowl of the delicacy, made possible by husband Corey’s 35-cent raise at the local tile factory. “It’s nothing but the finest...
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“We shuffled in line toward a machine that dispensed the tickets you handed to...”
– Aziz Ansari of Parks and Rec, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, and David Chang of Momofuku take Tokyo by storm. Hilarious and wonderful.
GQ.com via Eater
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“It is utterly insufficient (to eat pie only twice a week), as anyone who knows...”
– Racial determinism, geo-political history, gender disparity, and the law of man as viewed through the lens of pie.
New York Times, 10/3/1902
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October 2011
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145 - Some Dickwad on a Cleanse
onthebrod:
Why couldn’t I have gotten a ride with some awesome fat dude who’d be like, “Let’s stop at this Outback and have like twelve Bloomin’ Onions.” No, I ended up stuck with this dickwad on a cleanse.
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“A competitive person or one who feels chronically undervalued cherishes foods...”
– Gilt Taste on the psychology of comfort food
September 2011
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Killing two birds with one giant, bony fish →
I’ve been interested in the potential of the Asian Carp, an invasive fish species that can grow up to 100 pounds and tastes something like tilapia, for sometime. It has spread up the Mississippi River and, if electric migration deterrents fail, could enter the great lakes and decimate local populations of delicious walleye, as well as the livelihood of thousands of freshwater fisherman.
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Slip a glazed doughnut around his manhood and...
Honestly, I prefer Boston Cream Pie
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Student-Run CSA Prickles Fordham Administrators,... →
But something tells us one of those reasons is more important than the others […] the food service contracts. The company that holds that contract is none other than Sodexo, the foreign company that will probably be bringing mediocre generic food to Coney Island next summer. Sodexo, you may recall, has been fined by New York State for overcharging New York students and denying black...
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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Reversing the stigma of 40 Acres and a Mule →
There is a movement for more African Americans to get involved in our country’s food production. But, there are serious societal challenges
because farming carries negative connotations for many African-Americans due to the legacies of slavery, sharecropping and recent discriminatory government policies.
“Black farmers were the backbone of American agriculture,” said John ...
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Infographic: Price X Nutrition of Junk Food and...
It’s widely known that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be obese. The chart below jumps off of the obesity research of Adam Drewnowski who found that a single dollar could buy more calories of junk food rather than healthy food. He found that a dollar can get someone 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips, but only 250 calories of...
Seperation of Church and Steak
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/whole-foods-ramadan_n_922354.html
“You will taste three things: First, the sweetness of the flesh and fat. This is...”
– The guilt of gastronomy, the eating of the ortolan
“89 percent of the Whole Foods stores in the United States were in counties...”
– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/obama-whole-foods_n_927052.html
“On the morning of Sunday, May 1st, White House officials cancelled scheduled...”
– The Mission to Get Osama bin Laden (via Mark Morford)
Food in Fiction →
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“A central Pennsylvania man has been charged for a second time with trying to...”
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WatchEery, beautiful recipes in video form from No Reservations cameraman Erik Shirai. Only a few, but I hope to see more! EyeWhatYouEat
Eating Their Words: How Food Writing Collections... →
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“It’s always exciting and difficult to enter someone else’s kitchen,...”
– Daniel Klein, of The Perennial Plate, asking: “Is It OK To Have A Dinner Party On 9/11?”
August 2011
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