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Yet another theory of what made humans successful: fire—because eating cooked food is more efficient way to consume it, and the behaviours surrounding … gulfstream/2615

Chart of common household activities and common foods in low water use/high water use pairs. e.g. coffee–37 gallons, tea–9 gallons. Eating chicken … gulfstream/2601

The jaw-droppingly delicious Australian chocolate biscuit the Tim Tam is now available in the US at Target. gulfstream/2549

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Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's - Aug. 23, 2010

Lunch Shop for Ironworkers Rises With Skyscraper - NYTimes.com
A moveable containerised subway sandwich shop is part of the shell of a skyscraper being built in NYC.

Real iron chef will make you pay
"'Finishing your meal requires that everything is eaten except lemon slices, gari (sushi ginger) and wasabi"--strict rules at Yukako Ichikawa's Japanese restaurant.

Eating Well On $1 A Day - Grocery Coupon Guide
The "problem" with these posts is that they make it seem as if the poor have no excuse for not eating well...

It's OK for vegans to eat oysters. - By Christopher Cox - Slate Magazine
Guy reckons it's okay for vegans to eat oysters: farming them doesn't really harm the environment, and they don't feel pain. Claims to have got lukewarm support from Peter Singer, as well.

Interview with Shut Up, Foodies – Eat Me Daily
"I'm interested in the class politics of food and so I like to skewer people a bit who act like the solution to crappy fast food is having a garden in your backyard and spending a ton of money at the farmer's market."

Op-Ed Contributor - End Animal Pain on Factory Farms - NYTimes.com

Best Steak Restaurants in London - Recommended Steak Restaurants in London

Author William Poundstone Dissects the Marketing Tricks Built Into Balthazar's Menu -- New York Magazine

Basics - Another Challenge for Ethical Eating - Plants Want to Live, Too - NYTimes.com

Pancake Recipe | Benjamin Christie Australian Celebrity Chef

Why Wine Ratings Are Badly Flawed - WSJ.com
"The judges' wine ratings typically varied by ±4 points on a standard ratings scale running from 80 to 100. A wine rated 91 on one tasting would often be rated an 87 or 95 on the next. Some of the judges did much worse, and only about one in 10 regularly rated the same wine within a range of ±2 points."

Food Standards Agency - Eat well, be well - Cooking
"It's fine to eat steaks and other whole cuts of beef and lamb rare, as long as the outside has been properly cooked or 'sealed'. Steaks are usually sealed in a frying pan over a high heat."

Hit & Run > Norman Borlaug, Happy 95th Birthday! - Reason Magazine
or organic farming: "That's ridiculous. This shouldn't even be a debate. Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people."

Books of The Times - ‘Catching Fire’ by Richard Wrangham - Humans, the Cooking Apes - Review - NYTimes.com
"Apes began to morph into humans, and the species Homo erectus emerged some two million years ago, Mr. Wrangham argues, for one fundamental reason: We learned to tame fire and heat our food. “Cooked food does many familiar things,” he observes. “It makes our food safer, creates rich and delicious tastes and reduces spoilage. Heating can allow us to open, cut or mash tough foods. But none of these advantages is as important as a little-appreciated aspect: cooking increases the amount of energy our bodies obtain from food.”"

My Favorite Simple Roast Chicken Recipe

Order your takeaway meals online - Urbanbite.com

Organic food delivery service - Abel & Cole
organic food delivery store. their faq has an intriguing "do you sell food from israel?" entry--they do, and defend the practice, but you can opt out of israeli produce if you like.

Catering & Cooking Thermometers
big range of thermometers

The Anti-Restaurants - NYTimes.com

Cooking For Eggheads
it's temperature that's important, not time

The Shangri-La Diet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(the teaspoon of oil diet)

The diet that really works - Times Online

Op-Ed Contributor - Wine in a Box Protects the Environment and Saves You Money - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
on boxed wine: "Boxed wine may be short on charm, but it is long on practicality."

A Steady Diet of Medals and Fast Food - 2008 Olympics – Sports and News from China – The New York Times
gold medal winner ryan lochte reckons he's eaten mcdonald's for almost every meal since arriving in beijing

Sweet Heat - For Jamaicans, It’s About Jerk - NYTimes.com

The dish » Blog Archive » The top ten home cooking mistakes.

The 247 lb. Vegan - WSJ.com

SANZA - South African, New Zealand and Australian Online Shop

Fine Furious Life » Blog Archive » Dimsum Stories

What is "freezer burn?"; Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts from the
water can evaporate even from solid ice (also good article in wikipedia)

not martha

The Invisible Ingredient in Every Kitchen - New York Times

The 247 lb. Vegan - WSJ.com

Raising the Steaks: 2000s Archive: gourmet.com
kobe beef comes from poorly treated cows? (plausible, but anecdotal, inconclusive)

Plumpy'nut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
special "medicinal" food packs to plump up starving kids. long shelf life, 500 calories per serving.

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Just-Eat Order pizza, indian, chinese, thai and fast food online from local menus for home delivery. London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Southampton. Just Eat UK

www.eatmecrunchy.com Home Page

Mariage frères

The School Cafeteria, on a Diet - New York Times
the surprisingly stringent rules regarding what can be served in us scxool cafeterias

What does 120 calories look like?

Gregg Easterbrook: Greatest Living American Ignored - Media on The Huffington Post

Dabbawala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

that's how it happened

waiterrant.net » Blog Archive » Just Desserts

Notes of a Gastronome: The Taming of the Chef: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Pergola Des Artistes - New York, NY, 10036-1408 - Citysearch
where the new yorker cartoonists gather

Dallas Food - What's Noka Worth? (Part 1)

Classic Cafes in London - Gridskipper

Welcome to Firezza

C V O - Firevault :: Restaurant
sells fireplaces during the day, bar + restaurant at night--?

Cafe Pause

Wired News: Snow Ordinary Dessert

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Only another 5,500 calories to go ...

Bon Appétit Editor's Blog at Epicurious.com

Ocado: Product information for Vogel's Sunflower & Barley Brown Bread
this is nice bread! remember for future bread purchases!

Chic, Affordable Tokyo Cafés

BBC NEWS | Americas | Refugees taught how to eat American food

Telegraph | News | On the menu today: horse penis and testicles with a chilli dip

Sirocco :: Why I had whale steak for dinner today :: August :: 2005

Weird Science

BBC - Radio 4 - The Food Programme
why frozen food is great (?)

Why ice-cream vans face total meltdown - Britain - Times Online

Could MSG make a comeback? By Sara Dickerman

The New Yorker: PRINTABLES

Argentina On Two Steaks A Day

MRE Info - Meals, Ready to Eat

Mary's Fish Camp

spiked-health | Column | Don't give food alerts the green light

The Power of Lutefisk

SupersizedMeals.com - Foodstuffs of Epic Proportions

Sushi Eating HOWTO