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When we get our eggs from a single basket

“Eggs” by Zyada
The question is whether that consolidation is really a risk factor for salmonella. And you’ll find people on both sides of that who will argue the case that either having it be at large places where you can actually do really good biocontrol is more safe, you have people who would argue that [...]

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Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

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Weber grill misunderstood by Nathan Myhrvold, NYT

(via Kottke)

Nathan Myhrvold, cookbook author
Nathan Myhrvold, ex-Microsoftie and founder of an invention company called Intellectual Ventures, is also really interested in food, so much so that he’s writing a monster cookbook (currently ~1500 pages) about the science of cooking.
In another discovery of culinary heat transfer physics, Dr. Myhrvold said the bulbous shape and black color [...]

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Cooking Up a Story interviews Ann Vileisis

On the topics covered in her new book Kitchen Literacy
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Part 2:

Things like this make me excited about food and cooking. Makes me realize, too, how long it’s been since I spent serious time in the kitchen (or on the couch doing prep work).

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The cupcake’s reign must come to an end

photo credit: jek in the box
Note: this is a repost of an article from my previous blog. I wasn’t boozing recently, but my animosity towards the cupcake still stands
While boozing recently in celebration of a friend’s birthday party, the birthday girl reveled there would be cupcakes later. As I’m sometimes wont to do, [...]

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