This is a guest post from my friend Kris, an American writer living in India. She and her husband are in New Delhi to participate in an educational exchange program. The juxtaposition of cultures has been interesting. When you think of grocery shopping in New Delhi, please don’t imagine your local Safeway or City Market, with aisles wide enough for two pushcarts passing as shoppers stroll, browse, select. Our grocers — or rather, “departmental store” — is a packed-to-the roof little cubby that requires deft yogic moves just to enter and exit, let alone exploring a row of goods. When it’s time to restock, they...
From Recipes Photograph from Sasakei on Flickr I know, it's almost Thanksgiving, so here is a quick cornbread recipe that comes out moist and tender and not dry and crumbly. But if you're like me, you aren't cooking. That's what family is for. Me, I just have one more day until a holiday and I'm trying to use whatever is left in my fridge. This recipe utilizes lots of dairy products that I'd have to throw out anyway. I don't have much experience with corn bread, but I got this recipe from The Cornbread Gospels cookbook, so I figured I...
The old adage is that there’s always an exception to any rule. This shows up in global nutrition studies, too, in populations that are either healthier or less healthy than their diet, lifestyle, and/or environment would lead us to expect. HealthAssist Blog details ten such paradoxes. How do the French stay so slim while eating such rich food? Why is heart disease decreasing in Spain while the consumption of meat and dairy products skyrockets? And how do Albanians live so long in one of the poorest countries in Europe? Link -Thanks, Karen!...
From Serious Eats Photo by Lani Bouwer Despite my love for Thanksgiving food stuffs, not everyone chooses to indulge in the succulent turkey, meaty gravy, or butter-filled mashed potatoes. They choose to go the vegan route. But just because the meal lacks meat or dairy products doesn't mean they can't celebrate with a delicious Thanksgiving feast. I asked Dreena Burton, blogger and author of Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, Vive le Vegan! and The Everyday Vegan, about what she will be serving during her meatless holiday. She recommended: Festive Chickpea Tart Roasted Sweet Potatoes Lemon Broiled Green Beans Traditional Cranberry...
Filed under: DairyThe vigilant folks at PETA are really straining at the boundaries of good taste.People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently sent a letter to Ben & Jerry Homemade, Inc. co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, asking them to consider using human breast milk instead of cow's milk in their products.How did this idea pop up? A restaurant in Switzerland decided to make soups, sauces and other delicacies using 75% human breast milk. If it's a good idea for one Swiss restaurant, it's good enough for a mass-market, (albeit right-on) maker of ice creams. You have to give...
From Serious Eats Milky nougat-like White Rabbit candies have been found to contain melamine, adding to the string of melamine-tainted dairy products coming from China. Melamine is an industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones and kidney failure, and has already sickened tens of thousands of infants in China. [via Gothamist]...
Boing Boing pointed out a totally amazing assertion from John McCain's blog:"It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others." If there's one tactic that really works in politics, it's that if you don't have anything nice to say about the other candidate, try insulting his or her supporters with nerve-touchy stereotypes! And apparently, the best they could come up with...
According to yesterday’s print edition of the Nikkei, Japan’s largest business newspaper, researchers from Tokyo University developed proprietary software that can detect and quantify different kinds of food captured on photographs. The software analyzes colors and shapes to identify which type of food a person plans to eat. It’s also able to determine the size of bowls and plates to detect how much is going to be eaten. The software then classifies the food into different categories such as staple food, fruits, dairy products etc. For future reference, all of the data collected can be stored in the form of...
