MetaFilter posts tagged with food

Commence whey puns... NOW!

Cash4Lead — Wed, 22 May 2013 10:26:44 -0800

Whey Too Much: Greek Yogurt’s Dark Side For every three or four ounces of milk, Chobani and other companies can produce only one ounce of creamy Greek yogurt. The rest becomes acid whey. It’s a thin, runny waste product that can’t simply be dumped. Not only would that be illegal, but whey decomposition is toxic to the natural environment, robbing oxygen from streams and rivers.... And as the nation’s hunger grows for strained yogurt, which produces more byproduct than traditional varieties, the issue of its acid runoff becomes more pressing. Greek yogurt companies, food scientists, and state government officials are scrambling not just to figure out uses for whey, but how to make a profit off of it.

It's good to be the king.

Room 641-A — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:19:38 -0800

On June 6th, 2013, Mel Brooks will be presented with the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award, but this post is about his Tomato and Onion Omelette. Bon Appétit talks cooking, coffee, and career with Mel Brooks, Omelette King.

Like a beer? Find its family members.

shivohum — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:51:36 -0800

Put in your preferred beer style, and Beer Viz will tell you about similar beers using data collected from Beer Advocate.

"When it comes to food, I find it impossible to be monogamous."

koeselitz — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:04:23 -0800

For the past eighteen years, Gil Garduño has been chronicling his adventures in New Mexican cuisine on his NM Gastronome blog. With over seven hundred reviews of restaurants around New Mexico, Gil's got you covered, whether you like classic New Mexican food, green chile cheeseburgers, or even other types of food that happen to be well-represented in the state. Gil is fierce in his defense of homegrown eateries over chains, saying that "word of mouth is crucial to survival and through this bully pulpit, I’ll do my best to extol the great value and virtue of supporting local restaurants." A warning, however: if you like food, and particularly New Mexican food, Gil's excellent and evocative writing about (and photography of) great dishes is likely to make you more than a little bit hungry.

According to FDA standards, the sauce is technically not “cheese"

Chrysostom — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:42:31 -0800

The history of baseball stadium nachos.

Japan's love of meals, sandwiched

ChuckRamone — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:15:22 -0800

Lotteria will release a ramen sandwich later this month. Back in February, McDonald's announced the return of its Texas and Idaho burgers. And yakisoba sandwiches are ubiquitous in Japan.

We can’t download a banh mi.

capnsue — Sat, 11 May 2013 10:24:43 -0800

Chris Richards, formerly of DC post-punk outfit Q and Not U asks: Are foodies quietly killing rock and roll?

You made the fish disappear, you rob the bones of our ancestors

infini — Sat, 11 May 2013 05:26:55 -0800

About 200 indigenous people on the Xingu, Tapajós and Teles Pires rivers began an occupation of the largest construction site of the Belo Monte Dam, demanding the withdrawal of troops from their land and the suspension of dam construction. Powerful and searing, this statement from a people pushed to the brink by their own state, Brazil, and who have begun an indefinite protest at the main construction site of the Belo Monte Dam, which is in the Xingu and Tapajós river basins

Waiter! Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!

Ahab — Sun, 05 May 2013 10:40:32 -0800

For decades Brown Windsor Soup stood as a culinary allegory for the British empire, and was reputedly a favorite food of Queen Victoria herself. By the 1950s, Brown Windsor Soup appeared to have had its day in the sun, ultimately becoming a favorite source of hilarity on comedy shows ranging from the Goon Show to Fawlty Towers. But it remained a soup fondly remembered by older Britons as terrible swill served on British Rail dining cars and in boarding houses. In recent years, celebrity chefs and food sites have tried to redeem the dish. And yet now, a terrible question presents itself. Did Brown Windsor Soup even exist prior to 1950s comedy?

To eat, or not to eat and maybe pay the gas bill instead

marienbad — Sun, 05 May 2013 06:37:52 -0800

Which? poll says many 'borrowing money for food' - "One in five UK households borrowed money or used savings to cover food costs in April, a Which? survey says. It suggests the equivalent of five million households used credit cards, overdrafts or savings to buy food." [BBC]

“Our food is only as brown as we want it to be.”

spamandkimchi — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:06:04 -0800

Filipino food writer Clinton Palanca on the least celebrated Asian culinary tradition, the glory of gloop, and the sadness of being so neglected that there aren't any "bastardized versions of adobo and sinigang" in cookbooks. "The Philippines may have never had, or will never have, a national cuisine, but it has always been an international cuisine. We’ve always looked outwards; what we’re upset about is that the outside isn’t looking back at us."

nutrition database

nickyskye — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:21:54 -0800

An exceptionally informative, nicely designed and useful nutrition database, where you can easily look up the glycemic load, inflammation factor, vitamins, proteins, nutrients, calories etc. It is a practical source of information if you wish to either shed excess poundage or put some on. There is a glycemic index info page and lots more. The site was created by Self magazine.

Rice and Old Lace

mark7570 — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:18:49 -0800

Consumer Reports recently advised against eating too much rice. Is this a new fad diet? Not exactly. Instead, limiting intake of rice will help cut back on that nasty habit of eating arsenic.

In a City of Hipstercrites

shivohum — Thu, 02 May 2013 07:15:23 -0800

How I Became a Hipster (SLNYT)

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women NOM NOM NOM!

Room 641-A — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:40:16 -0800

Kyaraben (or charaben) is a style of elaborately arranged bento which features food decorated to look like people, characters from popular media, animals, and plants. Mari Miyazowa (previously) creates stop-action animated shorts featuring her bento box creations. Waking Up is the latest from the lunchbox auteur. MORE BENTO THEATER:

The Shark and the Dolphin

Sausage Proliferation

Sumo Rice Ball Ring Entrance Ceremony

Bento Theater Opening Animation MORE ANIMATION

Bento how-to

Charaben (character bento) recipes

Rice Ball Anime "Koron"

e-弁劇場 (Valve* Theater) RECIPE VIDEOS:

Picnic Bento

Lunch

Children's Day Lunch

How to make Momotaro Amman

How to make character *Allegedly, according to Google Translate

FOOD FLASH - There's spud in your eye!

The Whelk — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:06:42 -0800

The Ministry Of Food was a British government ministerial posts separated from that of the Minister of Agriculture. A major task of the latter office was to oversee rationing in the United Kingdom arising out of World War II. They made many newsreels and PSAs to inform the citizenry how to use the food rationing system: Rationing is introduced in 1939 The new ration books are coming! Cod Liver Oil Here's spud in your eye Don't cut that bread! DON'T WASTE FOOD! Dig For Victory! Milk is here! In addition, some short films instructed people in how to best use the new rationing system : Two Cooks And A Cabbage How To Make Tea Rabbit Pie Buying black market meat: a Partner in CRIME A US view explaining UK rationing to the States.

BBC: How to Eat Healthily on £1 a day

marienbad — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:36:03 -0800

"Starting on Monday 29 April , 5,000 Britons will be challenging themselves to live on just £1 a day for five days, as part of a campaign by the Global Poverty Project. But is it possible not just to survive, but also to eat a balanced and healthy diet on that sort of budget?" "Over five days, I set out to see if it was possible to include sufficient fruit, vegetables, protein and carbohydrates in my food to do that, spending no more than £1 a day - while trying not to lose sight of the fact that eating should be a pleasure, not just a necessity." "Coffee, alcohol, cakes and even salad are just too expensive. But there are plenty of surprising goodies that are very much on the menu." Comments worth reading: you can view them by date/highest rated/lowest rated/editors picks.

This is basically a love letter from my stomach.

phunniemee — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:03:42 -0800

Serious Eats tries all the tacos at La Chaparrita. What is this magical place? Well... La Chaparrita is a tiny tacqueria/grocery store with absolutely amazing food in the Chicago neighborhood Little Village. Steve Dolinsky (ABC7's Hungry Hound--Chicagoans will recognize him as the guy who has his picture hanging in all of my favorite restaurants) likes La Chaparrita. LTH Forum likes La Chaparrita. The Chicago Reader likes La Chaparrita. For an added bonus, there's a pretty extensive (given the size of the place) Santa Muerte altar to the side of the dining area kept by the owner Angelina.

You said we were going to try new food! An umbrella isn't food!

desjardins — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:04:37 -0800

A four year old reviews Mission Chinese Food (with his face)

Leo just kept ingesting sweet crap

The Whelk — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:06:07 -0800

Dan Goodbaum edits together selected excerpts from Elvis Mitchell's interview with Quentin Tarantino about the role of food as a indicator of power in his movies (full interview here). Grantland's 20 Best Tarantino Food Scenes

Frozen seared steak

AceRock — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:36:11 -0800

OK, this is a single-recipe post, but if you would like to host a steak dinner for more than like two people and get sous-vide-like results with less hassle and equipment, here's what you do: Freeze the steaks, sear them hot, then stick them in a low oven for an hour. Nathan Myhrvold (Modernist Cuisine) explains.

"It Tastes Like Steak"

box — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:31:52 -0800

"Steak is the defining mouthful of our time" (A.A. Gill, for Vanity Fair)

'Lizard'

ominous_paws — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:55:36 -0800

How Animals Eat Their Food (SLYT)

“Shopping is so ritualised that we walk around like zombies,”

the man of twists and turns — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:47:56 -0800

Sian Jarvis, the supermarket’s head of corporate affairs, had undermined her claims to care about the health of her customers and let slip one of the secrets of a multi-billion-pound industry ... she revealed that one in three Asda checkouts “are what we call guilt-free checkouts”. Jarvis insisted “guilt-free” was merely “a term that’s commonly used in retail”. But it was too late, and her “guilt” gaffe quickly invited scorn in the industry and among public health professionals. Whatever the damage, she had already opened a door to the arcane science of supermarket psychology. To the designers of the modern store, shoppers are lab rats with trolleys, guided through a maze of aisles by the promise of rewards they never knew they sought The Secrets Of Our Supermarkets

Weaponized Architechture: Architechture for Profits Optimization The Geography Of The Supermarket

These obvious gimmicks have paid for themselves over and over again; they’re obvious, yes, but they work. One avoidance strategy, of course, apart from sticking to the outer walls, is to leave the youngsters at home while you shop. Most toddlers are too young to have formed strong brand attachments and will eat just about anything that is put before them, so long as it tastes good. That gives the shopper room to roam down along the lower shelves, where the less expensive generic products can be found, as well as the healthier items on the menu.

6 Ways Google Hacks Its Cafeterias To Make Employees Eat Healthier Behind the Scenes at Google's Cafeteria - "At Google's cafeteria, junk food is out of sight, and pizza is (almost) out of reach." Of course, Facebook Won't Be Outdone

Perfect for that breakfast on the go, and creeping out your friends.

quin — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:48:11 -0800

How to Scramble Hard Boiled Eggs Inside Their Uncracked Shell. [slyt]