Tagged “food”
"What's something that used to be good, but now it's just mediocre?"
twitter thread on a reddit thread on foods being tasteless now
OpenFarm
Choose a Crop / Find a Guide / Grow!
What the Fuck Should I Make For Dinner
Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong …
Or as Grandi puts it, “Their ‘tradition’ was trying not to starve.”
Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections
This seems very bad.
Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year to be 18
TLDR get enough sleep and exercise
The impact of starvation
People become preoccupied with food
Food Disgust Sensitivity Test
How Meat and Fossil Fuel Producers Watered Down the Latest IPCC Report
Tackling Australia’s food waste
If food waste was a country it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Economic cost of it seems comparatively low on an international scale (still billions), but emissions and water cost is pure waste.
The ‘Perpetual Broths’ That Simmer For Decades
The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything
most truffle flavor is not derived from truffles. Often odorless other mushrooms are added for decoration (like the black pieces in truffle cheese).
What condiments or sauces are worth becoming mildly obsessed with, in your opinion?
Beyond Meat’s Very Real Problems: Slumping Sausages, Mounting Losses
I had thought there was some large technical/scaling challenge (there still are), but much of this reads like plain old stretching too thin.
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food - Harvard Health
How to Maintain Food Supplies in Future Pandemics
interesting for the stats of current waste/usage stats alone
Thoughts on the potato diet
Still curious about it
Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
bit clickbaity
Quite a few microbes have abandoned the human gut, as humans have lost 57 of the 100 or so branches, or clades, of microbes currently found in chimps or bonobos and at least one other nonhuman primate, Moeller reported on 11 June at Microbe 2022, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Moeller was also able to estimate when some of the human gut microbes disappeared. A few were lost thousands of years ago, and some have disappeared more recently, with city dwellers having lost the most, Moeller reported.
Budget Bytes - Delicious recipes designed for small budgets.
The Dorito Effect - the story of food through the lens of flavor
Maybe this is what Flavortown is all about.
Why, I wondered, does flavor have such a hold over us? And why do so many scientists carry on as though nutrition starts from the neck down, that what truly matters in food is carbs, protein and fat, and flavor is just some meaningless and frivolous indulgence?
Our flavor sensing equipment—the nose and mouth—takes up more DNA than any other bodily system. Why is there so much DNA devoted to a sense we tend to think of as superfluous?
Reader Comments for The New York Times’ “Homestyle Spaghetti Carbonara” Recipe
important question, if you could only eat one kind of cheese for the rest of your life what are you eating
Foods With Misleading Names
Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.
Tyler Cowen Embraces the Hopeful Future – Law & Liberty
Notes from an interview over dinner at Mama Chang
Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide | All food is ethnic food.
I love that when not teaching, blogging, reading, or conducting in-depth and detailed interviews, he manages to find the time to maintain a food blog.
The Curious Curator of Culinary History - Proof (podcast) | Listen Notes
Why Matt Preston swears by crushed Doritos as a seasoning
this made him more relatable than anything else I've ever heard from him.
Ribollita – Tuscan vegetable and bread soup
Linked from John Cochrane conversation with Tyler.
Million-dollar Food Planet Prize awarded to CSIRO innovation
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