Archives for the 'Quick Bites' tag
Quick Bites
Kids get 27% of their calories from junk food. And 100% of those calories are paid for by their parents. [Boston.com Moms]
The EU finally approves a GMO food (a potato). Except it’s inedible. [BusinessWeek]
If your milkshake doesn’t bring all the boys to the yard, bring your milkshake to the boys. Or the yard. Or whatever best completes the word switcharoo. [Dining@Large, with props to commenter Sam Sessa]
Dubai’s got camel burgers. [Telegraph]
Costa Rican paper on halal burgers in France. [Nacion]
Former NBA staf Chris Webber is being sued over a shuttered restaurant. [Sacto Bee]
Quick Bites
The Nation devotes a whole issue to “Food for All: How to Grow Democracy.” Alice Waters. Michael Pollan. Blech. [The Nation]
Spiked also devotes an issue to food. [Spiked Online]
The French don’t get Julia Child. They look at her much like we look at Rachael Ray. Yeah, they’re snobs, but at least they hate “the strictness of American health rules about food.” [NYT]
Chicken farmer’s got talent! [MSNBC]
Joel Salatin is an award and $100,000 richer. Congrats! [Newsleader]
Amidst all the hullabaloo over the White House farmer’s market and Michelle Obama’s organic garden, it’s worth recalling how much crap the USDA–”skeptical of amateur farmers”–gave Eleanor Roosevelt when she wanted to plant a few beans and peas. [Time]
Quick Bites
Quick scan of food news from around the horn.
La virgen de la griddle. [LAT]
The variety of ways that novelists describe food and dining. [NYT]
Farmers’ Market boast best. bologna. ever. [Zanesville Times Recorder]
Pate or organic dog food? Most people unsure. No dog polling done. [ohmidog!]
Bic Mac x-rays reveal… I’m not sure. [The Sun]
