Saturday, December 6, 2014

This week's compost





 Pear, apple, chili cheese and honey liqueur from the weekly market in Orvieto

Conflict Kitchen

This project is quite extraordinary as is the current attacks on it because its current iteration is on Palestine as per this link courtesy of Alice P Julier and the food-culture group of the American Society for Food Studies to which I subscribe.


Happily I reckon it wouldn’t raise a whisper of controversy in Aus.




Sunbeam highlight competitive nature of cooking in new campaign from The Works

 A different kind of conflict kitchen.



Halal products may be finding Islamist extremism, claims Nationals MP
‘Christensen says there’s no way to know where the funds from halal-certified goods end up. He said it was “outrageous” his grocery dollars were going towards a “religious tax” – listing halal-approved products such as Vegemite, Corn Flakes and Freddo frogs.’
I’m way more worried about there his grocery dollars are going in his diet.
http://bit.ly/1BP5sv2

The Paeleolithic diet and the unprovable links to our past
 ‘Even among arctic people such the as Inuit whose diet was entirely animal foods at certain times, geneticists have failed to find any mutations enhancing people’s capacity to survive on such an extreme diet.
Research from anthropology, nutritional science, genetics and even psychology now also shows that our food preferences are partly determined in utero and are mostly established during childhood from cultural preferences within our environment. The picture is rapidly emerging that genetics play a pretty minor role in determining the specifics of our diet. Our physical and cultural environment mostly determines what we eat.’

Hey, I’ve watched the Flintstones and I KNOW that Fred liked nothing better than a huge chunk of mastodon steak after a hard day’s work at the gravel pit, with no green stuff, while Wilma merely picked at a salad to keep that hourglass figure.
http://bit.ly/1zZDxUk

Honey you sprayed the kids
I hope you can view this = it’s a triffic little animation on bees.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152140169964790

Barley was key to lofty Tibetan life
New Scientist 29 November 2014 reports that a shift to farming barley, which is frost resistant, may have enable farming communities which had had an intermittent presence on the Tibetan Plateau as long as 20,000 years ago to make the shift to permanent occupation at heights above 2.5 kilometres by around 3600 years ago. It’s posited that barley, originally from the Middle East, came to these communities post the opening up around 4500 years ago of what we now call the Silk Road, the vast trade route across Asia.
Nice one barley J
 
Vale Pie Face, gone to join Australia’s other fallen fast food chains
‘At any rate, the honeymoon is over and Pie Face looks set to join the long list of food chains Australia has fallen out of love with. Some of them are still around, but like the lyrics to Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn, they’re cold and they’re ashamed, lying naked on the floor.’
I’d love to think it’s because Aussies are getting their taste buds back, but that would be too much to credit I suspect.
http://bit.ly/1w7dn4l

Business and entrepreneurs seize opportunities in rise of veganism
‘David Benzaquen, CEO of PlantBased Solutions, a US-based marketing agency, credits the rise of private investors putting millions into food start-ups, and the growing consumer base of “flexitarians” as real drivers for change in the US market. “Consumers being both more aware of big animal agriculture, its impact on the environment and their own health, as well as campaigns such as Meatless Mondays, are key contributing factors to more people trying plant-based foods”
 
That word entrepreneur...look out for the $40 vegan burger coming soon to a high end restaurant near you. The ridiculous thing is of course that vegans can eat very very well indeed cheaply across a range of cuisines right now and indeed always have been. Indeed, the larger proportion of the world, I reckon, continues to be vegan...but of course they don’t live in Notting Hill or Newtown so they count in this ‘trend’.
http://bit.ly/12rpN97

1 comment:

  1. Appetising pic and interesting selection this week Paul, especially the conflict kitchen - what a cool idea.

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