Food Blog

Just in time for Christmas – bacon tree ornament

3 historical food fights – cows and indians, breadfruit and the Bounty, and Cod and NATO

A comic illustrating a trip to Alinea

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Give Thanks? Science Supersized Your Turkey Dinner “Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.”

Creative Food Manipulation “These wildly creative examples of artfully augmented food (that anybody can make, provided they got Michelangelo’s sculpture skills and nearly limitless free time) can be then displayed in upscale New York art galleries (until they go bad)”

The Carnivore’s 100. A list of 100 kinds of meat you can check off. I might do a separate post some time on how many I’ve eaten, but I think I’m pretty close to 95% (never had squirrel). Some notable exceptions on this list (hard to include everything in only 100 items, but it’s fairly well-done) is the Chicago Italian Beef sandwich, and some game items that should be on any meat-lovers agenda like rabbit, pheasant, elk, etc.

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Could this be more than a rumor of real Change in Washington?

As for the economy Fast Company’s Fish on Friday column “…Whole Foods Market, which runs the nation’s most entrancing and most expensive grocery stores, reported profits for its most recent quarter. The bottom line for Whole Foods in the months of July, August, and September? $1.5 million in total profit.” That works out to $64 per store.

Could Just 4% of the Wall Street Bailout End World Hunger?

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I’ve come out of dormancy to announce that there’s an Iron Chef video game on Wii coming! (warning: loud music alert)

King Richard II’s recipe book to go online

Fast Food Hits Mediterranean; a Diet Succumbs “…concern has been echoed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which said in a report this summer that the region’s diet had ‘decayed into a moribund state.’ ”

Both tequila and spaghetti are in danger because of the biofuel boom.

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50 ways to use bacon

America’s Unhealthiest Drinks Exposed – VitaminWater has about as many calories as a Guinness*

Neither has anything on this 2,300-calorie liquid monstrosity “slurping up one 32-ounce Heath Shake is the caloric equivalent of eating 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, the saturated fat equivalent of scarfing 60 slices of bacon, and will give you the same sugar rush as working your way through 13 Haagen Dazs Vanilla and Almond ice cream bars.” Hurry if you want one, they’re discontinuing it at the end of May.

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The National Restaurant Association’s show is in town in a few weeks, but they’re also putting on an International Wine, Spirits & Beer Event.

It’s that time of year again, find a Farmer’s Market near you. Evanston’s opens May 17th.

The New Yorker tells the story of Grant Achatz’s battle to save his tongue.

Secret Found: What Makes Food Look Tasty “This natural molecule, named ghrelin, actually improves perception and memory when it comes to food.”

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Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear “Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.”

A side effect of the farmer surveillance Monsanto practices – if you try taking a nice photograph of a picturesque barn in farm country, you should be prepared to be confronted by farmers who are paranoid about cameras.

On the brighter side of farming check out Straight from the Farm, a beautiful blog featuring an urban farm in Philadelphia.

LTHforum, Chicago’s best food forum now has a whole section devoting to Gardening, Farming and Foraging.

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I don’t have ads on this blog, but if I did I’d send you to:

Fred and Friends, with kitchen products like a pan handle shaped like a banana a measuring cup that measures not just in cups and onces, but useful measurements like ‘5 thousand drops of water’ or ‘as many grains of flour as people on the planet’. And what home would be complete without an accessory to add the vision of Mary on your toast?. They have a blog too – the Joy of Fred.

I’d also try to sell you meat candy – lollyphille has maple bacon lollypops.

I’d love to design and ad for this dual aquatic pet chop/seafood place.

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Photoshoped animals into fruits

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Check out this gallery of the Tribune’s food photography.

Speaking of galleries, Gapers Block has one about the closing of the Hyde Park Co-Op Market (see link at the end of the article).

LTHForum also has a gallery of the last days of the Co-Op entitled: Groceries That People Won’t Buy Even at 40% Off

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