Wow, this is depressing. Apparently you – and me – and every other average American, literally ate about a ton of food last year.
Each.
I mean, we’ve been a bit on the poor side, but we still managed to eat.
So, just damn.
Category Archives: Health & Diet
Beer Charts of the Day
I may have posted this earlier in the year but wanted to be sure. So here is a chart showing the growing centralization of beer ownership in the world. Quality is sure to suffer eventually.
The Science of Pickles | Mother Jones
No, really, give it a listen.
10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science
Myths exist in a fact-free vacuum. Seriously, just look at some of the bizarre and often deadly things people use as a personal ethos. Food myths are no less harder to kill with facts.
As if the original article didn’t cover enough ground, Lifehacker today added a follow-up article.
Take all of this, of course, with a grain of salt. Pun intended. Granted, I’m not a kid anymore but I have been around long enough to see eggs be the root of all evil and the savior of humankind at least through two different cycles.
Any and every point made in those articles could be turned on their heads in the next six months. Just saying.
U.S. military rations – The Washington Post
Strange things are afoot concerning military rations. Caffeinated beef jerky anyone? Hell, I’m interested.
Plus, a look at the history of military rations.
The Wired Atlas of the Human Ecosystem | Wired.com
Some really interesting things to consider in this diagram. Check it out.
The whole antibiotic thing is of some concern to me. We’re probably all screwed up there.
10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science
No matter how debunked this list is, I know most of us buy into them.
Then again, how many times have eggs been alternately good, then immensely bad for you in your timetime? So, you know, it might not be so bad to stick with a few of these.
A State Without Mexicans? | Mother Jones
In Alabama, like Georgia and North Carolina before them, racism is put above both economic and civil rights concerns as the state basically makes it illegal to be brown.
Sure, there are undocumented and falsely documented workers in this country. Either find a way to get them to work legally or find a way to pay Americans enough to do the work. Because, whatever the current laws are trying to do is just going to make a lot of folks hungry, both the workers not getting paid, the farmers fined or forced out of business, and the rest of us paying more for smaller amounts of food as it rots in the fields.
Short-sighted and cruel conservatives will truly be the undoing of this nation if their agenda can’t be stopped. Or at least turned to productive ends. Laws like the one mentioned sure as hell won’t do the job.
Confessions Of A Sriracha Fanatic : NPR
For the love of sriracha. Some good recipes in there too.
Tamales, Los Angeles’ first street food – latimes.com
I really can’t wait for Gustavo’s book on Latino food in America.
For now, the latest offering is this history of tamale wagons in LA in the late 19th century into the early 20th century.
That taco truck had a predecessor.