Veggie Patrol: A Roundup Of Recent Findings About Benefits
From time to time, we present compendium posts running down the roster of recent scientific discoveries about a specific food, eating habit or other nutrition-related issue. Today, we’re looking at a series of revelations about new benefits and applications of vegetables.Read More →
McStrike 2021: McDonald’s Workers Strike For Higher Pay
If you were in the U.S. yesterday, and craved fast food from the Golden Arches, and failed to note the mega-protest by McDonald’s workers, you must have been concentrating really hard on something else. The traditionally-low-paid workers were demanding what they call a ‘living wage’…Read More →
Expedition To Chad: The Best Of Four Worlds!
With one foot in the desert and the other in lush grasslands, Chad has a unique place in African culture. That is, it is home to a unique collection of donor cultures and native ingredients that add up to a unique national cuisine featuring one of the widest varieties of dishes we’ve seen yet in our travels…Read More →
‘Slaughter-Free’ Cell-Cultured Meat Cracks Chicken Challenge
We’ve been so wrapped up in the galloping progress being made by the Plant-Based Protein industry over the past couple of years that we’ve kind of forgotten about the other slaughter-free meat process: cell-cultured real meat. Finally, a leading innovator in the field has spoken up…Read More →
Expedition To Ethiopia: Nothing Like Any Other African Food!
Ethiopia is fast becoming a foodie ‘cuisine destination’ that’s spawned an explosion of Ethiopian restaurants across the Western World! If all you remember about Ethiopia is that they had a ruinous drought and a mass famine in the late 1980s, you have a lot to get caught up on!Read More →
Sunday Musings: Old Mysteries Yield To New Chemistry
Muse on this: Some intractable mysteries with mortal consequences just a hundred years or so ago are now everyday issues that can be cured by a simple change in packaging, manufacturing processes or materials handling procedures, or even an over-the-counter pill…Read More →