Category Archives: Food

Alien Corn

August 2, 2017 – 11:27 am

From my pal Dennis Mangan: a warning about industrial seed oils (which are everywhere in the modern American diet). Here.

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Soup And Sandwich

February 27, 2015 – 11:25 am

An interesting item over the transom this morning from our reader and commenter The Big Henry: Data Mining Indian Recipes Reveals New Food Pairing Phenomenon I’d never even heard of this ‘food pairing’ business. It uses chemical analysis to determine which foods have shared ‘flavor components’, and should go well together.

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Meta-Meat

January 24, 2015 – 1:06 am

Saw this on the supermarket shelf the other day:     We are now twice removed from reality — not just ersatz pepperoni, but ersatz pepperoni made, in turn, of ersatz turkey. (And to add a frisson of horror: that awful, missing ‘e’.) But wait: is there such a thing as mock tofu? Nay, the […]

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Something Fishy

February 22, 2013 – 2:36 pm

The world’s tuna fishery is collapsing, with prime specimens selling for seven-digit prices. Yet tuna is everywhere, from supermarket shelves to delis to sushi bars, and the retail cost remains low. How is this possible? According to this item, a majority of the “tuna” being sold in the U.S. isn’t tuna at all. A lot […]

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