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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.
Spirulina is a blue-green algae that is supposed to have some amazing health effects when you eat it. It is sometimes referred to as Superfood when sold in a dried form. This article describes some of the potential benefits but also contains a word of caution about the hype: Spirulina Spirulina is a type of [...]
This two-part video discusses the meat we eat. In this case, it shows how cows are slaughtered and butchered in a small slaughterhouse (2,000 cows per year, or roughly 10 cows per working day). Everyone who eats meat should be aware of the process, and this video is completely transparent in showing that process. But [...]
Imagine that you are an inventor. You have been working for six months on your latest, greatest creation. You run to your spouse and shout, “Honey, I’ve done it! Come watch!” And your spouse sees this demonstration: It is amazing and cool. Also mysterious – how can the thing pick up mayonnaise like it is [...]
Anyone who’s opened a bag of delicious Goldfish™-brand cracker lately knows the sting of undiluted disappointment. Something is rotten in Denmark as far as retail food goes. Little by little the contents within are shrinking, while the bag — and the price — stays the same. The upshot is that we are getting far less food for what we pay for compared to even just a few years ago.
In some cases, like that of Goldfish™-brand crackers or a bag of chips, most of the contents is mere air, which, everybody knows doesn’t cost the manufacturer one red cent.
Restaurants You Should Try While You Travel
by Amanda Arnold | March 24, 2011
I’ve been editing a TLC article on restaurants you should try before you die, and I’m really intrigued by this chef Grant Achatz, owner of Alinea in Chicago; he sketches dishes and cocktails on paper. For example, in this sketch (via GQ), an edible wall divides the cocktail in half; on one side, the beverage is cold and on the other it’s hot. Servers will instruct the patron to remove the wall, eat it, and then take a swig of the hot/cold cocktail — “which showcases the temperature contrast,” Achatz told GQ.
I mean, whoa.
Oh my. I need to buy one of these stickers.
My friends and I were relatively devastated last summer when the cheap Mexican restaurant down the road suddenly vacated the premises. We’ve been joking for a while that we should post a plea on the front window: “Open cheap Mexican restaurant here?” — akin to the sign we wanted to flash at our waiter one night when he was tardy with our cheese dip: “Cheese?”
Google is making it easier for you to cook. The new Google Recipes feature is a very nice way to get to recipes through Google: It gives you lots of options for finding and exploring recipes. There is also this thing on Google called “Wonder Wheel”. Google describes it in this way: The example given [...]
New Hottest Pepper Found in England?
by Amanda Arnold | February 22, 2011
There’s a new pepper in town.
Former security guard and sauce maker Nick Woods, of Grantham, England, crossbred some chillis and came up with the infinity chilli, which has a record-breaking Scoville Scale rating of 1,176,182, according to the BBC. Are you familiar with the Scoville Scale? It’s my favorite of the scales because it measures the harmless agony peppers cause. For example, a jalapeno scores between 2,500 and 8,000 on the scale. The ghost chili pepper (bhut jolokia), which the India military uses for grenades to aggravate terrorists out of their hiding places, used to be the hottest pepper in the universe at 1,041,427, according to Discover. But not anymore.
The World’s Teeniest, Tiniest Italian Restaurant
by Amanda Arnold | February 17, 2011
There’s only one table at Solo per Due (translation “just for two”), a 250-euros-per-person restaurant located in Vacone, a small village in Central Italy, about an hour from Rome. So, it’s sort of like eating at home. Only home has servants who give you Italian food and wine when you ring a little bell. And home has a little patio outside with a view of the valley and its rolling olive groves and vineyards. Also, home’s grounds include the remains of a Roman villa that belonged to the poet Horace.
Horace wrote odes. Here’s a quote from one of his odes: “Take the present, the future’s no one’s affair.”
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