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• Cinderella fruit: Wild delicacies become cash crops

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 150
  IF YOU had come here 10 years ago, says Thaddeus Salah as he shows us round his tree nursery in north-west Cameroon, you would have seen real hunger and poverty. "In those times," he says, "we didn’t have enough chop to eat." It wasn’t just food – "chop" in the local dialect – that his family lacked. They ...
  5 hours ago

• Book Review: Bakewise..The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking by Shirley O. Corriher

  
  1800blogger — Authority: 167
  Submitted by The Thin Red LineSeveral years ago, Ms Corriher wrote a great Cookbook/Food Science book, called Cookwise. It was an extremely useful book. Both Cookbook with recipes and helpful, insightful sections on different foods, and recipes and explaining the the science behind the proper cooking of each type of ...
  17 hours ago

• Weekly Roundup: Bird-brained, fast-food, X-ray edition

  
  Just A Theory — Authority: 122
  Large Hadron Collider taken down by bread Earlier this week the Large Hadron Collider suffered yet another setback, when it was dive-bombed by a bird carrying a piece of baguette . You just can’t make it up. The rogue bit of bread caused a short circuit in part of the LHC’s above-ground electronics, leading ...
  2 days ago

• Climate-smart farming cuts greenhouse gas, boosts food production

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 131
  Can we eat our way to a better future for the planets climate? Only if we become more responsible farmers. The twin battles to improve food security for a growing world population and contain climate change can be fought on the same front--the worlds farmland, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization ...
  5 days ago

• [links] Link salad talks to the surgeon

  
  jlake.com — Authority: 439
  Soviet War Paintings — Some very striking art here. (Snurched from Gurney Journey .) Sex, then amnesia…and it’s no soap opera — Weird. Some dance to remember, some dance to forget, I suppose. (Thanks to mikigarrison .) Weird Stuff McDonalds Sells Around The World — A special investigative ...
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• Science Experiments To Do At Home/ Milk And Food Coloring

  
  PressBD | Selective Video — Authority: 152
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• Who mistook the steak for chicken?

  
  A Free Man — Authority: 114
  A couple of weeks ago I was cooking dinner, as I do most nights. We were having some sort of chicken dish and the recipe called for 250g (~1/2 lb) of chicken breast. I wandered over to the refrigerator, pulled out the twin pack of chicken breasts that Dr. O’C had picked up at the grocery store and my jaw dropped. ...
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• Peanut butter and chocolate

  
  The Well-Tempered Chocolatier — Authority: 106
  I apologize to everyone who is allergic to peanuts. Partly because this post is all about peanut butter, but mostly because it’s just so damn delicious.Every year for the past three years, I have made a peanut butter banana chocolate pie on March 14. For you folks who aren’t math geeks, that’s pi(e) day. As [...]
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• What Role Should GM Food Play in the Future of Agriculture?

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  The number of people affected by food shortages is starting to rise again. Is the solution a new biotech version of the Green Revolution, or a green Green Revolution based on organic farming? The New York Times brought together six experts to address those questions. Most fall squarely on one side of the fence or the ...
  6 days ago

• Is Laser Etching a Safer Alternative to Stickers for Labeling Produce?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  Photo courtesy of Sunkist Ive always been curious about how green it is to pick up a piece of organic fruit that has two or three different stickers pasted onto it. Each piece of fruit in the pile sporting several stickers has got to add up in terms of material waste and a little boost in the carbon footprint. So, ...
  6 days ago

• Glycotoxins and AGEs from grilled, fried, and fast food

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 132
  OnlinePressRoom.net - Cutting back on the consumption of processed and fried foods, which are high in toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), can reduce inflammation and actually help restore the body’s natural defenses regardless of age or health status, according to researchers from the Mount Sinai ...
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• CSIRO announces new food science head

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  Internationally recognised food scientist and science leader, Professor Martin Cole, will start as the Chief of CSIRO’s Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences (FNS) in January 2010.Professor Cole is currently Director of the National Centre for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) in the United States and Research ...
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• Global extinction crisis gathers momentum

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 131
  The 2009 update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature said today. Under threat of extinction: 21 percent of all known mammals 30 percent ...
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• The Secret of Liquid Smoke

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 884
  The secret: Its not the creepy chemical additive you thought. A couple of weekends ago, I caught an episode of the public radio show "The Splendid Table" with soothingly voiced chef Lynne Rossetto Kasper. The topic was BBQ and I was shocked (Shocked!) to hear Lynne* and her guest recommend liquid smoke as the key to ...
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• Hot News: Curry, Curcumin, Cancer & Cure

  
  Laika's MedLibLog — Authority: 510
  *Hot* News via Twitter and various news media a few days ago. Big headlines tell the following in respectively The Sun, Herald, Ireland, BBC News / NHS Health and Reuters:Curry is a ‘cure for cancer‘Spices in curry may help cure cancerCurry spice ‘kills cancer cells‘Scientists say curry compound kills cancer ...
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• Your Love of Crabs Will Kill Us All

  
  Loud Noises, Big Plans! — Authority: 98
  Congratulations, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Your research into blue crabs is going to poison the environment and kill us all. Sorry, what I meant to say was that UAB has made an exciting new discovery about a potential food source, and Im sure that nothing could possibly go wrong! People eat blue crabs. ...
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• Yet another use for red wine: flu defense

  
  Cultural Offering.com — Authority: 442
  There is growing evidence that antioxidants fight the flu .  Look at the picture, man!  Are you blind? Is scotch rich in antioxidants?
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• Tippling Through the Ages

  
  rchies Archive - The Curmudgeon's Magazine — Authority: 139
  Among the few cultural traditions shared by human populations across time and geography is the abiding urge to make and consume alcoholic beverages. Alcohol was also one of the first medicines as well as a component of many early religious practices. But modern humans’ choices are limited to a few alcoholic staples ...
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• Theme Park Hires Scientists To Develop Anti-vomit Breakfasts

  
  We Interrupt — Authority: 432
  When the management at the Alton Towers theme park heard that a large number of visitors skipped breakfast out of fear of losing it on their rides, they decided to take action. They called on Dr David Lewis, a food specialist, to produce a menu that was less conducive to vomiting. According to Lewis, the foods on the ...
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• Using science to stop illegal caviar...

  
  Unrealistic Expectations — Authority: 116
  Wondering exactly how could science stop illegally harvested caviar? Well, its all in what they feed the fish according to this New Scientist magazine article and its really kind of interesting...(Even though Im not a fan of caviar.)Sven Wuertz at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, and his colleagues ...
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