It is just me, isn’t it. I know I am a sad case of
stick-in-the-mud. But I have to ask about these two recipes...WTF? It isn’t
that I don’t get sweet breakfasts but absurdly sweet does it need to get? And
for food’s sake can we get over salted caramel everything. The only thing
exceptional about these breakfast ideas to me is how exceptionally gross they
are.
1 Farmed fish production overtakes beef for
the first time in world history
Holy
mackerel! (You knew I would say that, dint you J ). Not that this is any reason to cheer. “Fish we see
in grocery stores, like salmon, tuna and shrimp, are fed with smaller fish. The
combined mass of these smaller fish is greater than that of those grocery store
fish, meaning the input is greater than the output. In the Earth Policy
Institutes's eyes, reliance on farmed fish is problematic also because it means
we're eating beyond the constraints of our natural environment. It recommends
"slowing population growth" and consuming less meat, milk, eggs and
fish.”
1 Who are
the better cooks, men or women?
“Given
women's central role throughout the ages in applying these technologies and
skills in preparing food for their families, it stands to reason that it has
been women who have been largely responsible over many centuries and millennia
for the development of the myriad regional cuisines of the world.” What most of
this article says won’t come as any surprise to us, but this quote caught my
attention and has set me thinking differently about regional cuisines and how
they are spoken about in the literature, and indeed how they are still
investigated and showcased in the media. I think I would be safe in saying it
is the case that most tv shows that look at regional cuisines are still hosted
by men though they are often about cooking by women.
It’s an interesting
suggestion. Your thoughts?
1 Can we feed 9 billion by 2050? Radio
National Big Ideas program.
Elizabeth Finkle
Associate Editor of Cosmos Magazine and
Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University.
Dr Philip Keane
Reader and Associate Professor, Department of Botany,
La Trobe University.
Professor Snow Barlow
Foundation Professor of Horticulture and Viticulture
at the University of Melbourne.
The African Ancestor
Posting this re
palm oil curious to see if you can read it as it is an article in the Slow Food
e-newsletter and I am not sure how open the access is. The last few pars are of
particular interest I think, again pointing out that in their place of origin and
when used for what they have been historically used for, products like palm oil
are not evil. It's when they get commodified in ecologically and nutritionally
damaging ways that they become a problem. Not sure from the article whether
there is a way of identifying palm oil that comes from the project mentioned in
Guinea Bissau.
1
The Raw Milk Club
"My milk, my body, my choice." I love the
slogan. Reminds me of when we used to go to pro abortion rallies, and later to
gay rights rallies, and chant “Get you laws off our bodies!” This is another
article from Slow which I hope you can read, about a small legal victory in
Wisconsin.
1 Seeing stars: ministers poised to approve
new food rating system but industry seeks a delay
It comes as no surprise that the
food industry is trying to water down the proposed new star system for
labelling the healthiness or otherwise of foods. I’d be interested to hear what
you think about the proposed system. It builds on the star energy rating
system. Does anyone know whether that has worked?
Thanks for such an interesting collection of links this week. Still working my way through them but the iced vo-vo inspired breakfast sounds nauseating. Palm oil link worked for me but haven't explored very far - perhaps their oil is going into the sustainably certified stream?
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