Here’s some food for thought for today…
- Save the tuna – bluefin tuna might make it to the “endangered” list (effectively shutting down trade in the species) in March. Fingers crossed.
- Monsanto is at risk of anti-trust action against them, and a whole pile of reports show that many of their claims (like GM seeds using less pesticide) have turned out to be false.
- It’s a surprise, I know, but it turns out that kids eat less junk food if they can’t get it at school.
- If you’ve got a tattoo of a grilled cheese sandwich (which is right up there with skulls, “Mom” and roses, yes?), you’re entitled to a lifetime 25% discount on that same sandwich at an Ohio restaurant that specializes in said dish.
- 2009 was the year of bloggers getting book deals, and while many of them were utterly undeserved, a few were actually not bad.
- The history of Christmas dinner.
- Food activists talk a lot about weaning people off of cheap food, but in a recession, where cereal sales rise by 50% because people are buying it to eat for dinner, that probably won’t be happening any time soon.
- Enjoy the nativity, but please do not eat Jesus’ head – a nativity scene at a produce farm fashioned out of fruit and vegetables becomes controversial.
- Food trends of the noughties: making cooking/cheffing a desirable career, making room for female chefs in professional kitchens, sustainable food sourcing… yeah, okay, it’s been a pretty decent decade.
- Yes, it’s true… you really can deep fry anything.
