Friday, October 18

 
How your dinner died

Is this useful information or more than you really want to know? Some restaurants are going to great lengths to explain how that salmon or elk steak ended up on your plate. The story began in the Wall Street Journal; this one is from MSNBC's Web site.
posted by Unknown 9:16 AM

Thursday, October 17

 
‘Tear factor’ discovered in onions

You'll just have to find another reason to have a good cry in public, now that Japanese food scientists have discovered the enzyme in onions that generate tears. The tearless onion, they say, is just a few years away. No more eating bread, holding a piece of raw potato in your mouth, freezing onions or washing them -- a few of the ways people say they can combat the sniffles.
posted by Unknown 8:53 AM

Tuesday, October 1

 
Yahoo! News - Boy rings police over grandma's dumplings
So much for the love between grandparents and grandchildren.
posted by Unknown 5:45 PM

 
"First there were chickens; then, chicken tchotchkes!"A great story AND a great headline -- life is good! This is a fun story about a Wisconsin woman who wrote the book on chickens -- actually, one of a growing collection of chicken-focused books. Here's the beginning of a trend: Chickens are cool. Martha Stewart might have elevated an underground tendency toward chickens into a designer niche with her own flock of "pedigreed poultry" (stole that line from the story, I did), but others are finding the joy in raising a small flock. Having been in close personal contact with chickens, I have to say I prefer my chickens on a plate or on a piece of Quimper pottery -- the only stench that comes close to chicken poop is pig poop, and while some chickens are smart, most of them are not -- but if it gives some poor urban drone a few moments of pleasure to imagine a futue spent gaily tossing feed to appreciative avians, fine. Hey, maybe there's a book or a movie to be made there! No, sorry, somebody beat me to it: "The Egg and I," published post-World War II, made into a funny film with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert.
posted by Unknown 11:34 AM

 
Organic food labeling to debut this monthHere's a great explanation of the new federal regulations on organic labeling and what it means for consumers and producers. Its from CBS MarketWatch, an excellent Web site that deals mainly in business and finance issues.
posted by Unknown 10:20 AM