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Food Trend Predictions for 2019
The red abalone is dying off
“For people who think they don’t like fish…it’s amazing to see their eyes just sparkle when they take a bite and go ‘this is absolutely incredible,’” says Joe Cresalia, a recreational diver who liv...
Pandemic Worsens Dominant Food Retailers’ Anti-Competitive Tactics Against Local, Independent Grocers
The National Grocers Association has issued a white paper and asks Congress to investigate antitrust violations by dominant retail chains. https://www.nationalgrocers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021...
Food & Wine: Love Letter to Chinese Restaurants
Chinatowns are deserted. Chinese restaurants suffered early on in the pandemic and disproportionately from the decline in business. Time to order take-out and to do what you can to keep your loc...
Hazard Pay for Grocery Store Workers
" . . . These ordinances are shining one more spotlight on long-standing inequities exposed by the pandemic. While a number of companies provided their employees—who have faced unprecedented risks ...
Scientists Create Meat from Human Cells But Claim It’s Not Cannibalism
" . . . The team sees growing Ourboros Steaks as do-it-yourself project – not-cannibals will be able to buy a DIY kit containing swabs for collecting cheek cells, pre-grown scaffolds made from mush...
'Manhattan-style': what does this mean exactly?
You hear this expression so often attached to descriptions of restaurants and their menus. I think the label is often meant to lure customers in. Might work if you are an out-of-towner. But what is...
And now Amanda Gorman is a cookie
"When National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman took the podium at Joe Biden’s inauguration, in her vivid yellow coat and her skin glowing like she had swallowed sunshine, delivering a message of ...
What are some of your 2021 culinary “resolutions?”
With all the distress and upheaval related to COVID-19 this year, what, if any, resolutions are you making related to any aspect of food, cooking, etc.? Each year I usually have an ambitious lis...
What's with all these craft beers?
Caught a commentary by commentator/comedian Jim Gaffigan on CBS Sunday Morning Show this past weekend lambasting the explosion of craft beers/microbreweries around the country. It struck me as true...
The Rise of the Charcuterie-Free 'Charcuterie Board'
When is charcuterie NOT charcuterie?
Why Google Recipe Ratings Are Malarkey
this seems like a way a lot of recipe-seekers will be set-up to fail and why i always, always remind people to use trusted sources only.
Ruth Reichl Wants to Fix the Food Landscape
" . . . We need to start paying attention to the people who raise our food—the farmers, the fishermen, the ranchers, the dairy people. We need to understand how important they are. It’s really a ma...
"Small Data, Big Implications"
" . . . On the one hand, these studies confirm how hard it is to make indoor dining safe,since masks cannot be worn while eating. Airborne transmission is not only possible while dining, it is poss...
Covid-19 pandemic is the first time 40% of Americans have experienced food insecurity
" . . . About half of those polled say they’ve struggled to afford food, while 37% report skipping meals themselves so there was enough food for their children to eat. Yet 63% said they didn’t real...
Tired of Big Tech, Co-ops Appeal to Delivery Workers Burned by Gigs
“It’s a groundswell from the community instead, as opposed to, you know, a venture-funded, hyper-growth, ‘Let’s extract as much from the people and the companies that are our clients and customers,...
The Clever Root: Farms, Chefs, Cannabis
The inaugural issue of The Clever Root launched in the fall with San Francisco's Chef Daniel Patterson on the cover. From the publishers of Tasting Panel and Somm Magazine, it's taking a new look a...
Charcuterie Chalet for the Holidays
As artfully arranged cheese and charcuterie grazing boards https://www.instagram.com/p/B4tGWiAB6DR/ grew in popularity, the new trend for crafting these bites into do-it-yourself structures mimicki...
We Can Tackle Hunger and Joblessness at the Same Time
" . . . Andrés adds: 'We could put a lot of Americans to work building kitchens in the schools, raising the quality level [of meals], hiring people that we trained to be feeding their children.' . ."
Cabbage shortage hits South Korea's kimchi culture
" . . . The damage has left households struggling to find affordable cabbages to turn into the spicy pickle, which accompanies almost every meal in South Korea and has become a popular 'superfood' ...
A conversation with food researcher Ariana Gunderson on recreating food in pandemic literature
Another Decameron project with some observations on the use of comfort food in stressful times.