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Cream Cheese N Math

vinny9 — 2009-12-07T20:13:42-05:00

Mobius bagel

Poutine, not on the list

vinny9 — 2009-10-29T13:46:23-04:00

Breakfast from around the world

I Shoot Them (into my mouth)

vinny9 — 2009-02-19T15:33:23-05:00

Space Invader cookies

Fast to Adjust Faster

vinny9 — 2008-05-24T06:47:01-04:00

Skipping meals can help skip jet lag

Six degrees of starvin' nations

Mirzipan — 2008-04-09T19:23:49-04:00

In 788 words, Paul Krugman sums up the global policy trap surrounding food. It's not funny or youtube, but it is insightful. He goes from the food crisis to emerging economies to oil prices to bad weather to biofuel to political mis-management.

Here's the beginning of Krugman's NY Times Op-ed 7Apr2008, "Grains Gone Wild":

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These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there�s another world crisis under way � and it�s hurting a lot more people.

I�m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans � but they�re truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a family�s spending.

There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers � and making things even worse in countries that need to import food.

How did this happen? The answer is a combination of long-term trends, bad luck � and bad policy.
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Article continues in link above

Food Fight

chrisdye — 2008-03-11T21:58:57-04:00

For my first post on Glorp, here's something cool yet offensive: a history of the last 60 years of warfare as told through food.

Cookie Monster Eating Noises

vinny9 — 2008-02-20T11:28:48-05:00

Montreal restaurant openings in 2008

After getting interested in the foodie scene mostly thanks to King Casey's erudite yet eminently readable food blog and a xmas gift of the Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover) from me to Tash (which I've been perusing), I'm slowly getting interested in being hoity-toity with mah food. Thanks, King Casey!

Another good Montreal foodie blog is An Endless Banquet.

Two Fer

vinny9 — 2007-06-28T11:29:25-04:00

Photos and info from "What the World Eats"

Photos from the last Shuttle mission
You can see the cockpit and the blanket gap they had to fix. Plus some very nice EVA pics and Aurora Borealis from space.

Not For The House of Saud

vinny9 — 2007-05-17T11:29:23-04:00

Usage of Canada's Arable Land

The Gourmet Project

KingCasey — 2007-03-09T18:03:02-05:00

I've been working on a cooking project for a while. I'm preparing photographing and writing about every recipe in The Gourmet Cookbook. Now I'm ready to blog about it. Come watch me drown in butter, attempt to confit my own duck legs, and tackle more than 200 pages of deserts.

Dinner invitations will be forthcoming because I certainly can't eat all of this on my own.

The Gourmet Project

Vancouver online restaurant guide

dustin — 2006-11-02T03:11:05-05:00

Whilst browsing the Vancouver-web, I came upon a lovely online restaurant guide at www.DineHere.ca. There are lots of different food guide websites out there. What I like about dinehere.ca is that it seems pretty comprehensive in its coverage, has active user reviews being added, has a clean usable layout, and is categorized for easy searching. For example, here's a list of eateries downtown or in the west end with $20 or less prices, ordered by the number of user reviews they have. In other words, there's the basis for my continuing exploration of local food joints.