It is difficult to unravel the link between food and sex. If it didn’t lead to sex, I probably never would have botehred becoming a good cook or an exprt at eating out while in London. In The Observer Kathryn Flett and Alex James discuss “the joys of nude bubble and squeak, desert sex and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: The politics of food
If you had the chance, would you punch chef Anthony Bourdain?
Real chefs cook in groundnut (peanut) oil. Bubbly chef Rachael Ray – indeed her entire family – cook in olive oil. This alone makes me suspect her. She ducks and dives and doesn’t really answer the questiions, including the one above, in Time: “If you were stranded on an island but miraculously it had a… Read more »
Cronyism in Farmers’ Markets while Slow Food only survives thanks to subs
The food world is a small one in Australia, tiny in Melbourne. The same goes for the food media. In these cramped conditions it is not difficult for cronyism to develop and you might look carefully when you visit the farmers’ market this weekend. I for one wonder why Phillipa’s a company that makes excellent… Read more »
Organics better. Official!
Organic food really is better for you. As Grist reports, a study by The Organic Center makes fascinating reading: “The authors show that before 2000, very few peer-reviewed studies compared organic and conventional food; the ones that did looked only at “macronutrients” — vitamins and minerals. In that era, there was little consistent evidence pointing… Read more »
No dilemma for Michael Pollan’s omnivores
“There’s something pathetic in that very American question, because the answer is already implicit in “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” and it should have been apparent even before readers discovered Pollan’s scintillating book — except, clearly, it wasn’t,” writes Salon. “But then America is a gullible nation with a long-standing thirst for snake oil. How could we… Read more »
Is Fair Trade unfair?
I’ll let the Adam Smith Institute tell it how it is on how unfair Fair Trade may be and what the alternatives are. You can download a pdf of the report Unfair Trade. “Unfair Trade argues that for all its good intentions, Fairtrade is not fair. Firstly, by guaranteeing certified farmers a minimum price for… Read more »
The Chinese and Jews
Christian icons are scary to non believers. Who wants to walk into an Italian restaurant and see a carving of some guy being crucified? It is not surprising that trad Italian restaurants can be kinds scary if you are not a Christian. Arthur Schwartz, writing in EGullet says: “That Jews have an affinity for Chinese… Read more »
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