Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Underserved in Amsterdam

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A few years ago, Amsterdam couple Rob Hagenouw and Nicolle Schatborn started a food truck they call " Keuken van het Ongewenst Die...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Unboiling an egg

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" Yes, we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg ,” says molecular biologist and biochemist Gregory Weiss of the University of Cali...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Tarrare tucks in

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To satisfy his unnatural hunger, 17th c. French showman and soldier Tarrare would eat anything – and I mean anything . In addition to vast...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Back in 2009, I expressed my view on the strange American tradition of pardoning turkeys from being slaughtered for Thanksgiving. Imagin...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Tutti-frutti tree

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British horticulturist Paul Barnett was blogworthy for spending the last 24 years cultivating a tree in his backyard with a total of 25...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Modern mead

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I learned yesterday, while completing a crossword puzzle with my Dad, that the ancient honey-based beverage of mead has made a comeback . ...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Poop scoop

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Yep, here I go again , bring another stinky story to light! Several years after the introduction of Kopi Luwak , coffee that has passed th...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Cocoa conclusion

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For the first 3 years of my life, my Mom had me convinced that a Ritz cracker was a "cookie." When my aunt offered me a cookie a...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Historical ham

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My faithful readers know that one of my favorite topics (although not mentioned in the masthead) is old food . Well, have I got a winner o...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Icky import

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A post on the Wall Street Journal blog explains that the Chinese love to eat rabbit, particularly the residents of Sichuan province. Of...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Stale

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When the organ at Padiham Road Methodist Church in Lancashire, U.K., came to the end of its useful life, it was sold for £1,700 ($2,900) ...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Bat broth

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As you may be aware, there is an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the West African nation of Guinea . The frightening disease has ki...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Corndog crash

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A load of corndogs bit the dust Tuesday on I-220 west near Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. The driver, who won't be cited, f lipped his se...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Pompeii buffet

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For the last 20 years, a team of classicists and archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati has excavated and studied a small area o...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Trophic tally

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Ecologists from the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea calculated the trophic level of numerous species based on the a...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Paleo diet reconsidered

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In 2012, an international team of researchers published a study after examining the plaque on the teeth of Neanderthal skulls . They reaso...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Chocolate yesterday, chocolate tomorrow

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" Earl of Sandwich Blended Frappes Long Before Starbucks ," reads the headline about University of Leicester historian Kate Love...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Potato pathogen

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" .. .I saw the dying, the living, and the dead, lying indiscriminately upon the same floor, without anything between them and the c...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Petri meat

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My Mom and I were just talking about the medical and scientific goal to increase the human lifespan by decades. She mentioned how it would...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Giraffe jerky

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With Europeans in the midst of a scandal about horsemeat being found in processed foods, South Africans have issues with the air-dried me...