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Category Archives: food
Watermelon lobotomy
Recently we had a party at our apartment and I wanted to do myself one better than last year’s lychee bubbletinis. So in addition to making tapioca pearls and this time soaking them in a dilute honey solution to give … Continue reading
Food writing
I’m quite interested in agriculture and the modern food industry as a result of hanging out with my sister. I wanted to outline some of my reading of late in this area, mostly three articles which I’ve found very informative. … Continue reading
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Food Balls
One of the greatest culinary accomplishments of the illustrious xi chapter of tau epsilon phi, at least while I resided there, was the creation of the platonic meal, the food ball. Its inventors, Dylan Stiles, Jason Rolfe, and Ian Collier, … Continue reading
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Tapioca Pictures
As a much belated addendum to the above (below) “bubbletini” post, I would like to present the pictures of the final product. It also turns out that I wasn’t the first to have come up with such a beverage, who … Continue reading
Paradox of Plenty
More recently I finished Harvey Levenstein’s Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America, which picks up where Revolution at the Table leaves off and continues up to the present day. This book was written first, but … Continue reading
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Revolution at the Table
A couple weeks ago, now, I finished Harvey Levenstein’s Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet. It’s about how about how food and eating evolved in America between around 1880 and 1930. It was not what I … Continue reading
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What Do People Eat?
It took a bit of digging, but I found stats on what people all over the world eat. These numbers come from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Specifically, I got them from the Food Supply sections … Continue reading
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Food Books
This talk of food makes me wonder, as I have for the past few years, how is it that we end up eating the foods we do? Not how do they get on our tables, but why do we eat … Continue reading
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Calorie Stats
I recently read here, citing Marion Nestle’s book Food Politics, that the food industry produces 3,800 calories per American per day. This is a very interesting way to measure how much people eat on average. Assuming that we’re not amassing … Continue reading
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