Slow motion video of little kids trying new foods for the first time. Simple. Perfect. What reaction was your favorite? Mine was the kid who tried pickled onion. [via GND]
Food & Drink
Making a breakfast sandwich doesn’t really require a fancy gadget like this — especially when you factor in the $30 price tag — but, damn if this isn’t effective marketing. This is the classic example of a pointless kitchen gadget you buy, use once, and then three years later wonder why the fuck it’s still [...]
Ed Herr, of Herr Foods, talks to NPR’s Planet Money about how potato chip manufacturing has changed since 1946, when the company was just starting out on the family farm. Herr reveals that if they made chips the way they did back then, they’d cost about $25 a bag because it would cost ten times [...]
Mark Bittman breaks down the pitiful options for healthy fast food and perfectly explains the hierarchy of restaurant types: First, there are those places that serve junk, no matter what kind of veneer they present. Subway, Taco Bell (I may be partial to them, but really. . .), McDonald’s and their ilk make up the [...]
Yes, Margaret Thatcher died this morning. Politics aside, this caught my eye: Margaret Thatcher helped invent soft-serve ice cream, so says The Atlantic’s Megan Garber. Thatcher, you see, before she was a politician, was a research chemist. The future prime minister, then Margaret Roberts, received a degree in chemistry from Oxford in 1947. And she [...]
Care for a tipple? Rye whiskey using George Washington’s own recipe will soon go on sale at the first president’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. The presidential home reconstructed Washington’s distillery and will make more than 1,100 bottles of unaged whiskey available beginning April 4. The bottles sell for $95 each. Mount Vernon says the [...]
Turns out that using green food labels on a candy bar or granola bar (my candy bar of choice) tricks eaters into believing that the sugary item is more healthy for you.
A few things you might not have know about ketchup before reading this fascinating history/etymology of the condiment: Ketchup originates from Fujian, China, which is odd because traditional Chinese cooking is typically devoid of tomatoes. Actually, that’s a bit of an overstatement as tomatoes play practically no part in China’s diet. Where did the tomato [...]
As it turns out, beer (and alcohol more generally) allowed early humans to break away from their social constraints, which paid more dividends than typically found at a kegger. Five core social instincts, I have argued, gave structure and strength to our primeval herds. They kept us safely codependent with our fellow clan members, assigned us [...]
