I spent Saturday night in the woods. On Sunday morning I walked back through a nice stretch of trail with blackberries growing along the sides, just turning ripe. Hiking pace went from 4mph to 0mph. I ate pretty much anything I could reach without having to go into the brambles.
We often buy “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” despite its awful name and soul-withering chemical composition. Even the product’s faux-entertaining site refers to it as a “nutritious blend of oils.”… In fact, we just bought the “light” version of it, which is therefore some sort of simulacrum of the original.
There’s some great naming suggestions […]
How to be a snob when drinking alcohol: “There are guidelines. First, if you’re faking it, everything is faint—you want to talk in terms of hints, notes, and shades. Give the impression that you only barely caught this delicate wisp of a flavor because you were concentrating so intensely back in Step 2.”
When I heard that milk jugs are being redesigned for better efficiency, I felt a sort of witless glee. Part of that is my usual response to efficiency. And also because most of my high school employment was in the local Kroger, stores #444 and #432 (I still remember that…?). I mostly did night stock, […]
King Corn is a documentary about 2 guys that move to Iowa to grow an acre of corn. With today’s agro-tech, the actual farming takes just a few minutes. The bulk of it is their interviews and exploration of the food chain from seed to cobs to cattle to what we get in stores and […]
By now you’ve probably heard Michael Pollan’s seven words of advice from In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” In the book he spends 150 pages talking about nutritionism, reductionist food science, and the negative health effects of the Western diet. In the last 50 pages he finally […]
Michael Pollan talked with Google last month about his latest book, In Defense of Food. He’s funnier than I expected. My doodles:
Eddie Murphy riffs on wanting McDonald’s food when you were a kid. “I had one of those mothers, no matter what you want, she has the ingredients at home.” It’s Eddie Murphy so, nsfw.
I watched the Woody Allen film Sleeper this past weekend and still can’t get over the scene with the giant food.
Michael Pollan has condensed his writing into a little manifesto on eatin’ right.
The Dining with Notebook Manifesto outlines an ingenious way to get a better dining experience, with some effort and preparation:
Because I’m a bit of a food-geek, I always had a notebook to take down my observations in text and drawings. I semi-noticed that the chefs and staff would become aware of my scribbling in the […]
Over the next year, Get Rich Slowly is tracking how much money a garden will save. The monthly reports should be worthwhile.
Ian Belcher writes about a week at a colonic spa, with a daily regimen of herbal pills and self-administered enemas. [via tim walker]
We’re making great progress in information design for coffee lovers. There’s those mugs that help you match colors, and the illustrated guide to coffee drinks to help you brew.
A taxonomical study of desserts. I love the use of good-old-fashioned markers & posterboard.
Next time I’m in Seattle, I’ll have to remember to stop by the Wall of Gum.
Some friends of mine started a cheese blog. Which is great for at least two reasons:
Lately, I’ve become more and more fond of food blogs.
The thought of starting a cheese blog would never occur to me.
The makers of Splenda have bought off hundreds of negative domain names, like splendakills.com. Is it just their paranoia or should I be concerned? [via torrez]
Hot dogs, filled with cheese, wrapped in bacon, deep fried.[via not martha]
A list of famous teetotalers. I’m in good company: Gandhi, John Coltrane, Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel L. Jackson, Xeni Jardin, Penn Jillette, David Letterman, Donald Trump, H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Zappa, and Prince, among others. Fictional teetotalers include Batman and MacGyver. Um… Heinrich Himmler, Hitler, and Osama bin Laden are also on […]
Photos of vending machines in Japan. Newspapers, underwear, beetles, fried foods. Oh, and drinks.
Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz has some interesting comments on what Starbucks has become, and what it should be. “Some people even call our stores sterile, cookie cutter, no longer reflecting the passion our partners feel about our coffee. In fact, I am not sure people today even know we are roasting coffee.”
Check out the infographics in these Japanese stadium menus at the bottom of the post. Description of the data available:
Graph (clockwise from top): Juicy, Crispy (Wrapper), Volume, Oily (lower = oilier), Garlic Amount, Vegetable Amount.
Stats: Size, Weight, Wrapper’s Thickness (Star Chart from Thick to Thin)
Sauce Breakdown: Soy Sauce %, Vinegar %, Extras
Here’s a sample image […]
Ah, nothing like a comforting spray of clam chowder. [via blankenship]
Michael Pollan has an extensive article on what to eat and why. [via justin blanton]
Our progress knows no bounds. First, caffeinated doughnuts, and now a personal doughnut maker, kind of like a Foreman grill.
“This past Christmas Vacation my brothers, sister, myself and my girlfriend built a scale replica of the battle of Helms Deep, from the second book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Two Towers penned by the late, great, J.R.R. Tolkien.” And it’s made mostly of gummi bears, licorice, and other confections. [via rebecca […]
I love Wal-Mart. Both of my local Wal-Marts are pretty incredible in the “cleanliness” category–I wonder how this one slipped through the cracks? Actually, it’s not really that dirty, but the “sheer Ramen devastation” and emptied shelves in general is pretty striking. That’s a stocker’s nightmare. Empty shelves mean 1) you’re going to keep losing […]
Here’s a bunch of pictures of tiny foods: A wee salad. A little quail egg. World’s smallest pancake… and cheeseburger. Mini mince pies. And another miniature burger, as seen on tv. Tiniest dill pickle. Really really small frozen yogurt. Fast food (okay, so it’s candy, but at least it’s a full value meal). Tiny cherry […]
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