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Eat This Newsletter 055

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15 May 2017

You’ve seen the photographs of “Eating Spaghetti by the Fistful” now learn how they came about.
Sharanya Deepak takes us Inside the Birthplace of Indian-Chinese Cuisine.
If you eat cheap chicken, you do not want to read Exploitation and Abuse at the Chicken Plant in The New Yorker.
The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser was one of the first books to really open my eyes to the meanings of food and eating. Now it has been reissued.
Civil Eats writes about Seed Rebels. In the past, I’ve interviewed many of the principles: Carol Deppe, Jack Kloppenburg of the Open Source Seeds Initiative and Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network.

My compadre Luigi I have been going back and forth on a recent research paper that delved deep into the breeding history of lemons and limes. It is utterly mind-boggling stuff, which neither of us feels able to understand, let alone summarise in any meaningful way. Luigi shared this picture from the paper:

I’ll just fondly remember my conversation with Helena Attlee, who explained that citrus are just really promiscuous.

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Frozen hash browns may contain bits of golf ball

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[G]olf ball materials … may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes.

And that’s all you really need to know, about why McCains is recalling frozen hash browns they made for Roundy’s, Harris Teeter and Wegman’s.

How many golf balls might have been harvested? Why don’t they know?

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Potatoes: delicious and nutritious

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It was a happy constellation. I’d heard The Food Programme on potatoes a couple of days before, and the lemon roasted potatoes sounded good. I’d just bought some salmon steaks for dinner. And there in the greengrocer was a pile of beautiful red-skinned new, but large, potatoes. No need to search out unwaxed lemons either, because all their lemons are unwaxed. Fiddly to put together, but easy to eat.

Also, a chance to do a reminder link to Carol Deppe talking about how really nutritious potatoes are.

P.s. Pity publicity-hungry Chris Voigt couldn’t be bothered to maintain the website for his 60-day, 20 potatoes-a-day marathon.

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Eat This Newsletter 054

1 May 2017 20 January 2019 0

Arise, ye starvelings

1 May 2017

We peasants, artisans and others Are explaining our lives to cultural commentators.
Enrolled among the sons of toil Or, perhaps, among the open source, robotic, small-scale farm workers.
Let’s change the earth henceforth for brothers And sisters, natch, by pausing in our wanderings to crack a walnut or two.
Drive the indolent from the soil No! Make the indolent pick their own.
On our flesh too long has fed the raven Consumer capitalism eats a chocolate factory and a way of life.
We’ve too long been the vulture’s prey Those vultures have already increased the price of fruit and veg in the UK.
But now farewell the spirit craven Farewell too to Five Myths About Medieval Cuisines.
The dawn brings in a brighter day A day on which I would be free to attend the Creative Tastebuds Symposium in Denmark in September.