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The delightful strips of deep-fried dough pictured at the right are called chiacchiere, and they’re served during Carnival in Venice (happening right now!).
In Italian, chiacchiere means “gossip,” which is, like, the perfect word for deep-fried dough — ’cause we all know how deep-fried dough goes down (deliciously), particularly when it’s dusted with powdered sugar (a sprinkle of guilt).
During Carnival, you’ll find various versions of deep-fried dough treats around, and you might as well eat ‘em while you can, particularly if it’s Fat Thursday, which the Florentines once called Berlingaccio — another Italian word that has to do with running your mouth.
PopStuff Show Notes: Episode 21, Holiday Foods: Get Your Pumpkin On
by Tracy V. Wilson | December 5, 2011
Holly and I are fans of food, and every season we’ve got something else to look forward to on the menu. When we recorded this episode, it was high pumpkin season, though the year has turned more toward peppermint since then. This seasonality of (processed) food got us thinking: Which treats are available (and heavily marketed) only at certain times of the year? And why?
Food Trucks begat Diners; or, What’s old is new again
by Josh Clark | November 22, 2011
Sometimes things come so clearly full circle that it’s elegant. An excellent case in point and the only one I can think of right now is the current trend toward buying one’s gourmet hotdogs and tacos from food trucks. It’s worth pointing out that it’s a trend in outlying cities like Atlanta, St. Louis. and San Francisco, though it’s has been pretty much permanent and largely taken for granted that at any given moment on certain streets in New York, there will be a line of trucks capable of preparing and serving hot food like gyros and sausages in exchange for cash only.
Most people are well aware of humanity’s constant struggle against famine and food insecurity. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), around 925 million people across the globe went hungry in 2010. The number is staggering, but it’s still down from over 1 billion in 2009. To make this horrific number a little [...]
Blow Your Mind: Bugs, Twinkies and Ancient Foods
by Robert Lamb | July 21, 2011
You are what you eat, which poses an interesting conundrum for a species that eats everything from fermented baby birds and laboratory snake cakes to fresh fruit and grains. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I take a fascinating look at humanity’s earliest meals and how so many of our staples boil down to the incessant battle for survival in an unforgiving world.
There’s a very important part of good science, that correlation does not prove causation. To give a crude example, if I’m eating an ice cream cone and a chimp passing by on his way back to the circus goes out of his way to cross the street just to punch me in the stomach, while the same chimp just minds his own business and keeps walking if I’m standing in the same spot but without an ice cream cone, then one can say that ice cream and abdominal pain is correlated. But then one is missing the point.
Um, I really like ice cream.
Therefore, I give you the following ice cream travel advice: Go to an ice cream festival. At the Austin Ice Cream Festival on Aug. 13, 2011, you can participate in (or eat the results of) a homemade ice cream making contest. People actually bring in their own equipment to churn ice cream on the spot. Yum.
Why doesn’t this kind of meal take place on my street?
According to reports, the table set up in this photo was a whopping 918 feet (280 meters) long. And as you can see, it winds all the way up the street in Xijiang Town, a Miao ethnic minority village in Guizhou province, southwest China.
Not everyone relishes a freshly-microwaved plate of leftovers — but, if you had to guess, how much food would you say is lost or wasted across the world, each year? Hundreds of millions of tons, surely. Maybe billions? The actual number is 1.3 billion tons. According to a recent report from the UN’s Food and [...]
If so, I’d like to point out that UNESCO recognizes traditional Mexican cuisine as an “intangible cultural world heritage” — right alongside Peru’s scissors dance and Spain’s human towers.
Here’s why UNESCO thinks we should protect traditional Mexican food with our lives: One, the deliciousness has been passed down from generation to generation. It shows up at births; it shows up on the Day of the Dead.
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