Changing Global Diets: the website A fascinating tool for exploring how, where and when diets evolve
A picture is worth way more than 1000 words when it reveals food trends over the past 50 years for more than 150 countries.
Category: Podcasts
Australia: where healthier diets are cheaper … ... but people spend more to eat badly
Australians devote almost 60 cents of every dollar they spend on food to unhealthy stuff. They could eat better for less money, but “affordable luxuries” get in the way.
Mistaken about mayonnaise — and many other foods Food history and alternative realities
Alternative food facts tramp across the landscape the hordes of the undead. Tom Nealon’s new book Food Fights & Culture Wars aims to lay some of them to rest.
A computer learns about ingredients and recipes What else would you put on a peanut butter sandwich?
Perhaps you’ve heard about IBM’s giant Watson computer, which dispenses ingredient advice and novel recipes. Jaan Altosaar, a PhD candidate at Princeton University, is working on a recipe recommendation engine that anyone can use.
How much does a nutritious diet cost? Depends what you mean by "nutritious"
You can eat a perfectly nutritious diet for a lot less money than the US government says you need. But would you want to?