Food For Thought – Thursday, November 19th
2009 November 19
Here’s some food for thought for today…
- It’s a tradition at US Thanksgiving to “pardon” a turkey, thus saving it from becoming dinner. But where do the pardoned turkeys go? Disney. No really… where it turns out to not be the happiest place on earth. At least not for turkeys.
- If chefs are the new rockstars then it only makes sense that people would pay good money for their cast off cookbooks and kitchen equipment.
- Yesterday I included an amusing anecdote about Chavez – today’s dictator, Robert Mugabe, is less amusing as he blames the West for Zimbabwe’s food security breakdown.
- The British are still worried about a take-over of Cadbury, this time by Hershey. And while I enjoy the occasional peanut butter cup, the allusion to it tasting like “squirrel vomit” was good for a laugh since I’ve always found Hershey’s chocolate to have a baby vomit vibe to it.
- It’s bad enough that your imported tomatoes are picked with slave labour, but a backlash against those same labourers by retailers as they fight for a fair wage (an extra penny per pound of fruit) is unbelievable.
- I’m seeing lots of articles about the recently released “fat map” that shows global per capita calorie consumption but nothing with a key that shows actual figures.
- The science of food processing – from the text on the package to which flowers restaurants should put on their tables.
- Ohh… burn! Tokyo now has more restaurants with 3 Michelin stars than Paris.
