While the edible casings might sound like a niche, hippie product, if the technology ever became popular it could make a dent in reducing plastic and paper packing for food and drinks. Bioplastic companies — which turn corn, or plant waste into renewable plastics — are going after the same replacement packaging market, but without [...]
NPR has a brief article looking at home canning today and during both world wars. Though canning was popular during each of these time periods, it was for very different reasons. During the world wars, canning was a way to rely less on food rations and to prolong the amount of time you could eat [...]
The Tokyo Institute of Technology is developing a cooking simulator that will allow users to learn to cook without the risk of wasting food. The simulator uses a “force feedback fry pan and spatula to accurately re-create the sense of cooking,” according to the DigInfo TV video above. As a user, you can see your virtual [...]
Right now, the food industry employs roughly 12% of the U.S. work force. This includes jobs in agriculture, food and beverage product manufacture, and food and beverage service. Many of these jobs, of course, are minimum wage. But reading Sunday’s New York Times makes me wonder how many of these and better jobs will be replaced [...]
What we’re doing is a transformational idea. We’re going to produce something that is not exactly the same but it is going to be cost efficient and much less harmful to the environment. Gabor Forgacs, George H. Vineyard Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Missouri, via CNN.com
Our new gadgets, and the connective capabilities that accompany them, are drastically changing the way we cook. Smartphones are changing how we think about grocery shopping. Search engines are changing how we think about recipe-finding. Video sites, almost as ably as Grandma, are teaching us how to cure bacon and chop an onion and truss a [...]
GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have been in the news a lot lately, partly because Californians will vote in November on whether or not foods containing GMOs should be labeled. This is a hotly contested issue, with one side arguing that consumers have the right to know what goes into their food and the other side [...]
I was excited to see watermelons at the farmers market this morning until I saw that the only variety they had was seedless. Seedless is a good idea, in theory, but I’d rather have those large, black seeds that I can easily identify than the smaller, white seeds that sneak into a bite of seedless [...]
Here’s a cute little solution if you’re in a sandwich rut: Typewich. Typewich is the creation of Jackie Ngo, a San Francisco-based designer who describes herself as loving “sandwiches, typography, and code.” You’ll find her love of all three on the simple site, which offers a new sandwich suggestion (and the ingredients needed) each time you [...]
The food for what has been described as the largest peacetime catering operation in the world is measured in tonnes (2,200 pounds), as in: a staggering 330 tonnes of fruits and “veg”; 100 tonnes of meat; 21 tonnes of cheese. But that’s the warm-up. If a “Food Vision” meticulously plotted under the auspices of the [...]
