Tag: Food
What’s the Next Foodie Eco Trend? ‘Entrepreneurial Foraging.’
by Jim Benning | 06.01.10 | 2:10 PM ET
What’s “entrepreneurial foraging,” you ask?
That would be the businesses sprouting up around foraging for miner’s lettuce, mushrooms and other food growing wildly, even in urban environments. Think mushroom-hunting safaris.
Writes Greg Beato in Reason:
All across America, enterprising eco-aggregators are engaged in the somewhat paradoxical pursuit of commercialized foraging, leading mushroom-hunting safaris in forests and selling wild-harvested dandelion roots in bulk on the Internet. Iso Rabins, a 28-year-old resident of San Francisco, joined their ranks two years ago, when he started organizing “wild kitchens,” paid events where diners enjoy “rambling dinner[s] of wild foraged foods” in private locales around the Bay Area. A few months later, Rabins added home delivery of food boxes to his menu of services.
(Via the New York Times Ideas blog)
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Yahoo! BuzzSeven Breakfasts Every World Traveler Must Eat
by Terry Ward | 05.20.10 | 11:57 AM ET
iStockPhoto Petit dejeuner, frühstück, desayuno -- call it what you will. Terry Ward dishes on some of the world's great breakfasts.
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Which American City Spends the Most on Food and Drink?
by Eva Holland | 05.18.10 | 10:54 AM ET
That’d be Austin, TX, per this cool graphic posted at Flowing Data. As the chart’s creators note, that’s a lot of Torchy’s Tacos. (Via Andrew Sullivan)
In Italy, ‘A Good Restaurant Should Come With a Bed’
by Rick Steves | 05.10.10 | 12:07 PM ET
On a great meal -- and an even better dinner conversation -- in Verona, Italy
The Titanic Awards: 10 Worst National Cuisines
by Doug Lansky | 05.05.10 | 10:29 AM ET
More than 2,000 travelers from 80 countries voted in the Titanic Awards survey. Here are the unlucky winners.
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Fish Rock in Japan
by Jim Benning | 04.22.10 | 4:17 PM ET
Fish rock is music aimed at promoting greater fish consumption in Japan, where it’s on the decline. Public radio’s The World explains.
Here’s a, uh, taste.
Taco Bell to Indians: ‘Visit Mexico for 18 Rupees’
by Jim Benning | 04.21.10 | 2:59 PM ET
Yes, Taco Bell is invading India, offering such classic Mexican delicacies as “Potato & Paneer Burrito.”
The offerings, with an Indian twist designed to appeal to local tastes and vegetarian diets, sound genuinely intriguing in an Indian-Mex-fusion kinda way.
From the Ostalgia Files: Vita Cola
by Eva Holland | 04.15.10 | 12:42 PM ET
We’ve been covering the ostalgia phenomenon for awhile now, and it’s still going strong. Atlantic food blogger Lauren Shockey has the latest entry in the field, a thoughtful post about her search for GDR-era food brands and products in present-day Berlin. It’s a good read.
The Sweetness of Brazil
by Tom Swick | 04.15.10 | 12:04 PM ET
iStockPhoto In the World Heritage city of Ouro Preto, on Brazil's fine appreciation of life's everyday gifts
Another ‘Slightly Creepy’ North Korean Night Out
by Eva Holland | 04.06.10 | 1:27 PM ET
A couple of weeks back we met the chain restaurant as done by North Koreans. Now, the New Yorker’s Evan Osnos offers a glimpse of a more “upscale” North Korean restaurant experience in Beijing. A sample: “[T]he experience is not, in the traditional sense, relaxing. The food is serviceable, though it always arrives with the slightly creepy sensation that dining out on North Korean fare just might be an act of exceptionally poor taste.”
Chart: Global Consumption of Prepackaged Food
by Michael Yessis | 04.05.10 | 11:36 AM ET
The United States, not surprisingly, leads the world in eating food from boxes and bags. The New York Times has the full rundown of what you’ll most likely find the locals eating when you travel around the globe.
‘If You Take Photos of His Food, Grant Achatz Hates You’
by Michael Yessis | 03.30.10 | 1:28 PM ET
So tweets Jason Wilson, regarding this blog post about Alinea chef Grant Achatz’s feelings toward people who photograph the famously photogenic food in his Chicago restaurant.
The Chain Restaurant, North Korean-Style
by Eva Holland | 03.24.10 | 2:07 PM ET
Slate’s Sebastian Strangio goes inside the Pyongyang restaurant chain, a government-owned operation that brings a taste of North Korea to diners across East and Southeast Asia—and, allegedly, launders money and funnels foreign currency back to the North Korean regime.
Bars vs. Grocery Stores, Mapped
by Eva Holland | 03.16.10 | 1:11 PM ET
Flowing Data offers up a map showing that some parts of the U.S.—we’re looking at you, Wisconsin—have more bars than supermarkets. Equally interesting? Spotting the areas on the map that seem to have precious few of either. (Via @julia914)
A Collection of Cross-Cultural Food Rules
by Michael Yessis | 03.16.10 | 11:48 AM ET
The Atlantic’s Lesley Freeman Riva compiles some folk wisdom:
By food rules, however, I mean more than simple, health-oriented precepts about eating your veggies and avoiding any cereal that turns the milk magenta. I mean those weird bits of food lore passed down unquestioningly from generation to generation: the strange taboos and enthusiasms that are often radically different from culture to culture, like the Japanese prohibition against combining clams and clementines, or the deep-rooted Italian conviction that cucumbers make you burp.
How to Take Part in an Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
by Jenny Dunlop | 03.09.10 | 11:10 AM ET
In Ethiopia, people who have no one to drink coffee with have no friends. Jenny Dunlop explains why you must stay for the third cup.
76-Second Travel Show: A Very Presidential Sandwich
by Robert Reid | 02.17.10 | 5:24 PM ET
Robert Reid celebrates President's Day by chowing down in Chester A. Arthur's one-time bedroom
Don’t Mess With My French Toast!
by Eric Weiner | 02.04.10 | 8:11 AM ET
iStockPhoto On the meal that grounds us in our home culture, even on the other side of the globe
Haggis Ban Lifted After 21 Years*
by Eva Holland | 01.26.10 | 1:32 PM ET
The sheep offal delight had been banned in the United States since the ‘80s due to BSE fears, but now Scotland’s most famous dish is back on the American dinner table. (Via Andrew Sullivan)
Update 3:01 p.m. PT: Sorry, haggis fans. A representative from the Department of Agriculture writes, “At this time, haggis is still banned in the U.S. The APHIS rule covers all ruminant imports, which includes haggis. It is currently being reviewed to incorporate the current risk and latest science related to these regulations. There is no specific time frame for the completion of this review.”
Kogi Truck Chef Turns Restaurateur
by Eva Holland | 01.12.10 | 1:44 PM ET
Now that his Korean taco trucks have made their mark on the Los Angeles food scene, chef Roy Choi is ready for his next challenge: the restaurant biz. Choi’s new restaurant will open in West Los Angeles in February, but the famous Kogi taco won’t be on the menu. Instead, he tells the Wall Street Journal that he plans to “update the rice bowl.” (Via @JohnnyJet)