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New Zealand Deer Cheese
New Zealand entrepreneur Graeme Shaw is starting the world's first commercial deer cheese operation. Milking the deer is apparently a bit of a challenge, but the cheese itself is said to taste good. I'd definitely give it a try. tvnz.co.nz
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 21, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Inhale Your Food
Any food that you can turn into a soup, you can inhale using "Le Whaf." It makes the experience of eating strongly resemble taking drags on cigarettes.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 19, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Eating Wood—the latest advance
I've posted before about the centuries-old scientific dream of using sawdust to feed the world. So the latest effort in this vein caught my eye. A Virginia Tech researcher has figured out a way to enzymatically transform indigestible cellulose into edible starch. The science seems sound. The only problem is that the process is too expensive for commercial production. But it's a start!The article points out that most of us are eating wood (or cellulose) already. It's a common additive in the fast-food industry. But it's indigestible, so people couldn't survive on it. Its purpose is to add texture, or "mouth feel."
Let Them Eat Wood! (If It's Turned Into Starch)
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In a study published this spring with colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Zhang explains a process he developed to transform solid cellulose — which could come from wood, grass or crop residue (like corn husks) — into a carbohydrate called amylose. The process is a form of synthetic biology and relies on enzymes to break down the cellulose into smaller units and then restitch the molecules into starch. That means the final, edible food product — a powder that Zhang says tastes sweet — is completely synthetic but resembles other complex carbohydrates like corn starch.
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In a study published this spring with colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Zhang explains a process he developed to transform solid cellulose — which could come from wood, grass or crop residue (like corn husks) — into a carbohydrate called amylose. The process is a form of synthetic biology and relies on enzymes to break down the cellulose into smaller units and then restitch the molecules into starch. That means the final, edible food product — a powder that Zhang says tastes sweet — is completely synthetic but resembles other complex carbohydrates like corn starch.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 06, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Science
Life in America: 1961
A semi-random slice across the weirdness of history. The first of an occasional series.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 03, 2013 -
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Category: Customs, Food, Sports, Advertising, 1960s
Decorated Urinal Cakes
Urinal cakes given makeovers to look like real cakes. From the Carmichael Collective.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 02, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Hygiene, Body Fluids
The Central Park Wildman
Steve Brill, the "Wildman" of Central Park, aka "The Man Who Ate Manhattan," is an expert on edible wild plants. He began leading foraging tours of Central Park in the early 1980s, teaching people what plants growing wild in the park they could and couldn't eat.
Of course, the park police weren't going to stand for this. In 1986, two undercover rangers tagged along on his tour and arrested him at the end of it. The official charge was misdemeanor criminal mischief. He became famous as the only person ever arrested for eating a dandelion.
The charges were soon dropped, and the park then hired him to lead the same tour.
Steve is still going strong. He's got a website, an app, and he's still conducting his tour. It gets 5 stars on yelp.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 01, 2013 -
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Category: Food, 1980s
Follies of the Madmen #205
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 22, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s
The Hunger Show, 1969
Back in October 1969, a group of "antipopulation protesters" staged a "hunger show" (aka "starve-in") outside of San Francisco. The plan was to inflate a 100x100-foot plastic pillow, inside of which 300 of them would spend a week without food, only water. As they sat there, feeling hungry, they would have to watch "slides of pork chops and peas and carrots" and listen to taped sounds of restaurant noises. Also, sandwiches would be taped to the exterior of the plastic pillow, and non-participants outside would stage a pie-eating contest.Participants were free to leave the pillow at any time, "but they can't return — they've died."
Organizer Stephanie Mills offered a slightly cryptic explanation of the goal of the protest: "People are just being too chicken, too chicken for their own good. We've got to encourage them not to be chicken."
The hunger show lasted half a week. Then it started to rain so they gave it up, saying, "We came here to suffer from hunger, not exposure."
[Pacific Stars & Stripes - Oct 9, 1969]
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 21, 2013 -
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Category: Food, 1960s
The Immortal Burger
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 04, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Junk Food
Music Good Enough to Eat
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
The Chocolate Watchband.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 06, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Chocolate, Junk Food, Music, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
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