Nutrition news
On Twitter, Parke Wilde asks:
How is it possible that a federal checkoff program, from a semi-public board whose marketing is approved by the federal government, advertises a bacon ice cream sandwich during a time of rising health care costs and high rates of chronic disease?
I have a different question:
How could anyone eat a bacon ice cream sandwich?
Parke offered more background on his website.
Others eating alone
A propos eating alone, Gabrielle Schaffner, ceramicist extraordinaire, likes pasta al limone.
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- The Delicious, Ancient History of Chocolate and Vanilla. To be taken with my opinion on at least part of the story.
- Marion Nestle answers Ray Goldberg’s questions about industry-funded studies.
- The World’s Appetite Is Threatening the Mississippi River, says the Wall Street Journal. I’d say, Old Man River will shrug it off; the rest of the environment maybe not.
- Nudges get a green light.
- But here’s a spoiler: there’s unlikely to be enough fruits and vegetables to satisfy everyone’s needs.
- Every crisis is an opportunity, or some such drivel. Even Brexit.
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- Its Greek yoghurt, but it isn’t “Greek yoghurt”
- Ancient yeasts for modern brews
- New grapes for wines to toast the climate crisis
- What’s up with wine criticism?
- Discrimination against black farmers was alive and well under Obama. It probably still is.
- Fair Trade does not benefit those who work for Fair Trade farmers: Take One and Take Two
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