1. Food delivery by drones: coming to a restaurant near you.
Of course, many of us think that a lot of food in Sydney restaurants gets delivered by drones already. (Oooooooooooooh, I am going to get into soooooooooo much trouble for that!)
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/food-delivery-by-drones-coming-to-a-restaurant-near-you-20130807-2rf10.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y9RKXO1rr7g
2. Shoyu Ramen Burger
My daughter plans on making some for Father’s Day. I shall report on the likelihood of my ever eating another post then.
http://laughingsquid.com/shoyu-ramen-burger-a-hamburger-with-a-ramen-noodle-bun/
3. The high cost of seafood fraud
“Swapping a lower cost fish for a higher value one is like ordering a filet mignon and getting a hamburger instead,” said report author and Oceana senior scientist Margot Stiles in a press release. “If a consumer eats mislabeled fish even just once a week, they could be losing up to hundreds of dollars each year due to seafood fraud.”
http://huff.to/1cdmHsY
A brief report on a longer study by Oceana that can be found at http://bit.ly/16vpze4
Am I wrong in assuming that we have stricter controls on substitution here in Oz?
4. Why home-cooking from strangers may be the future of food
“Calas recently joined a year-old food cooperative called Mealku <https://www.mealku.com/>
that's built on the premise of people who don’t know each other sharing homemade food, with no money exchanged. If you’ve ever belonged to a meal-swap – I cook Monday if you cook Wednesday – picture scaling that up to an entire city, far beyond anyone’s natural circle of trust. Ted D’Cruz-Young, Mealku's creator, says the network currently has a "few thousand" members plus 31 bike messengers in New York City, with plans to expand to other cities later this year. These are the pioneers of the food frontier of "collaborative consumption," the growing niche of the economy where people are sharing instead of buying all kinds of consumables (cars, apartments, tools) in a behavior that seems less eccentric by the day.” <https://www.mealku.com/>
Not the future of food, I reckon, but an interesting model in the practice of collaborative consumption that I am very taken with these days. I like the parallel here with the tiffin wallahs of India, those hardy souls who cycle the streets of Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and such carrying hot lunches from homes to offices. And I also like it as a way of household level avoidance of waste in the same way as Oz Harvest and co do it for restaurants or food events. <http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/03/share-everything-why-way-we-consume-has-changed-forever/4815/>
http://bit.ly/1cb8g8M <http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/03/share-everything-why-way-we-consume-has-changed-forever/4815/>
5. Fat profits: How the food industry cashed in on obesity <http://bit.ly/1cb8g8M>
“When obesity as a global health issue first came on the radar, the food industry sat up and took notice. But not exactly in the way you might imagine. Some of the world's food giants opted to do something both extraordinary and stunningly obvious: they decided to make money from obesity, by buying into the diet industry"
How many times does one have to say it...It's capitalism, stupid. Of course industries will find ways to continue to maximise their profits by diversifying and partnering up and other cabals to sell at both ends of a health spectrum. <http://bit.ly/1cb8g8M>
http://bit.ly/15SBqUe <http://bit.ly/1cb8g8M>
6. Food van on asylum seeker mission
"The Asylum Seeker issue has been an Australian political Hot Potato for as long as we can remember. Continually passed from one politician to another, who seem only to manipulate the facts to score points, without any action to actually solve the problem.”
Love the pun, love the idea, will hopefully get the chance to love the food.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/central/food-van-on-asylum-seeker-mission/story-fngnvlpt-1226693702136#mm-register
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