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Featuring native peoples from exotic locales who have never eaten a hamburger, new television spot (click 'See also') from Burger King feature 'Whopper Virgins' sampling - and choosing - between company's product, those of McDonald's. Critics call documentary-style ads 'ugly Americanism,' and misuse of money in food-starved world.
By Tom Hundley
Chicago Tribune 2008-12-16 (entry)
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Joan Nathan is participating in the new cookbook marketing site. 'The worst-case scenario for me is that people use my recipes.'
New website looks to increase new and old cookbook sales by serving up free searchable recipes from 12-plus publishers, 100 authors, including Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver, Mollie Katzan. Food sites attracted 45.6 million unique visitors in September, up 10 percent from a year ago - more than double rate of total Internet growth in U.S., study shows.
By Motoko Rich
The New York Times 2008-10-31 (entry)
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Wired readers vote on their favorite food photography - this one, by Rob Webster, is an international favorite. Others include a bicyclist balancing myriad cartons of eggs, a couple of spice market shots and a moody, late-night shot of customers at a ramen stand.
Wired 2008-07-14 (entry)
Making the most of ripe or slightly damaged fresh produce dumped by grocery stores, Rubulad in Brooklyn serves twice-weekly meals. 'Grub is a cheap, simple dinner for strangers and co-conspirators,' video creator says. 'We recover it, clean it, and cook it with love.'
www.youtube.com 2007-04-02 (entry)
Mark Bittman: It's time to stop raising animals industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.
To ensure our health and the health of our planet, which are intertwined, we must reduce consumption of meat and processed foods, says longtime food journalist. Livestock production pollutes air, land, water and our bodies; if we eat more plants and less of everything else, we live longer. We don't need animal products, or white bread, or Coke - we're not born craving Whoppers or Skittles.
By Mark Bittman
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading 2007-12-04 (entry)
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Food fans create online maps of great taco trucks, Chinese restaurants, and pizza spots, persuading others to submit their treasured information. Mapping introduces people to small businesses that they might not otherwise find and helps them see the good in their own community, one mapper says. For taco trucks, click 'See also.'
By Cyrus Farivar
National Public Radio 2008-04-28 (entry)
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Can pepperoni and cheese move us to unrhymed verse?
Seeking pizza poetry, food section of The Washington Post hosts Reader Pie-Ku contest. Send three unrhymed lines - five syllables, then seven, then five - to food@washpost.com, and write PIE-KU in the subject line, with your contact information.
The Washington Post 2008-04-16 (entry)
For animal rights groups, a slaughterhouse job, a tiny camera, and YouTube eclipse 25 years of tactics including boycotts and legal challenges. It helped, too, that video wasn't too gruesome for TV, and that public anxiety over food safety is high. Possible obstacle to more undercover probes is the 2006 Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which makes damage or economic disruption of an animal enterprise illegal.
By Kim Severson
The New York Times 2008-03-12 (entry)
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With text-messaging service providing calories, carbs and fat of common items at 1,700 places, expect a few bugs, a few blanks and sometimes shocking information: A tuna sandwich on honey wheat bread at Panera has 720 calories, 43 grams of fat and 50 grams of carbs. Nutrition on the Go, http://diet.com/mobile.
By Jane Black
The Washington Post 2008-02-13 (entry)
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Non-profit research group creates interactive map that points to 350-plus newspaper editorials in the last year, nationwide, calling for farm/food bill reform. Few issues, Environmental Working Group says, have garnered as much editorial page criticism of Congress.
Environmental Working Group 2008-02-11 (entry)
Turkey gets the most hits on Epicurious, the Gourmet magazine-linked recipe website, but vegetables, vegetarian alternatives, pumpkin pie - and these mashed potatoes sparked with sauteed onions - rank high as well, says food editor.
By Bonny Wolf
National Public Radio 2007-11-14 (entry)
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Upper crust's eternal quest for distinction, expressed through edibles that others can't afford (sugar and tea in the Middle Ages) has moved from flavor-enhanced "superfoods" to "organic" but, with Wal-Mart now selling organics, "local" is both political and consumer movement. Which will prevail?
By John Feffer
Alphabet City Food Anthology; Foreign Policy in Focus 2007-10-16 (entry)
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Long the designated caretakers of the poor and disenfranchised, religious communities find their interests growing toward farming and food production for reasons including humane treatment of animals, fair wages to workers and stewardship of the Earth.
By Joan Nathan
The New York Times 2007-08-22 (entry)
Escoffier would be shocked, but Hugo Liu, computer whiz at the MIT Media Lab is shaking up the food world with blend of artificial intelligence and obsession, running recipes through deconstruction computer program and sorting them by emotion.
By Regina Schrambling
Los Angeles Times (entry)
Gustatory glamour shots aside, food photography can be creative and informative, particularly when illustrating portion sizes, caloric density and just what fast food looks like, up close - really close.
By Chelsea Martinez
Los Angeles Times 2007-07-12 (entry)
