Food For Thought – Friday, November 20th

Here’s some food for thought for today…

• The history of the bluefin tuna as Japanese delicacy. Once considered garbage, this fish is now on the verge of extinction purely because of human greed.
• Pie crust for wusses. No, it’s not one of those no-fail recipes with the egg, it’s the tough love version.
• “One, I will have to tell the government, and two, the government will trace it back…” Yeah… why people who eat conventionally-slaughtered beef are really, really, really stupid.
• There’s an art to complaining about something in a restaurant – do you know how to do it?
• Medium well-done? And you call yourself a meat-eater? Pffft! Sarah Barracuda’s new book apparently has more to do with her love of killing and eating animals than politics. (Unrelated: please, please, please let her run for US President in 2012 – it would be the best Presidential debates EVAR!)
• 15 things worth knowing about coffee.
• Mummies had heart disease too – a study of a variety of mummies dating back 3500 years shows signs of heart disease in many of them, possibly due to a diet high in meat and salt.
• It’s anything can happen day – Anthony Bourdain comments (briefly) on the sale of the Travel Channel to the Scripps Network (owners of FoodTV).
• They’re beautiful (and tasty) on the inside. TasteStopping – where ugly rejects from sites like FoodGawker and TasteSpotting have their 15 minutes of fame.