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Ayurvedic Remedies
Imagine what you'd smell like if you applied all three of these topical treatments at once! Probably pretty pungent. Not offensive exactly. But hungry street people with a hankering for curry would be following you and licking their lips. You might just as well roll around in your vegetable crisper and spice cabinet.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 02, 2013 -
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Category: Body, Food, Medicine, New Age, India
The George Clooney Pizza Box
Pizza-orderers throughout Germany and Hungary have been reporting that their delivery arrives in a box (pictured below) with a picture on it of what appears to be a certain well-known actor making pizza. Is the resemblance coincidental or intentional? Has George gotten into the pizza business? Or did the pizza-box artist use a picture of George as inspiration? (That's my guess.) [buzzfeed, peachandthistle]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 02, 2013 -
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Category: Celebrities, Food
Let them eat sawdust!
People have been trying to figure out ways to feed the world on sawdust for quite a while. For instance, back in 1817, German professor Johann Autenrieth figured out how to make various kinds of food out of sawdust (pancakes, bread, dumplings, etc.). He fed this sawdust food to his family, and they didn't die, so he thought he was onto something. [Read more about Autenrieth in Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours Magazine]Autenrieth's idea didn't catch on. But now Bob Batey, an Iowa farmer, has come up with a new angle on the problem. He's feeding the sawdust to his cows, and he swears they're thriving on the stuff. If his idea catches on, sawdust may yet (indirectly) feed the world!
Southeast Iowa cattle herd thriving on sawdust-based feed
The Gazette
He first tumbled to the idea of feeding them sawdust after observing cows eating sawdust that had washed into their pasture from an Illinois paper mill. Batey said he deduced that something happened in the mill to turn an otherwise indigestible substance into palatable food. In the late 1970s, when hay and pasture were scarce, Batey said he began experiments to duplicate that process.
"I soaked the sawdust in nitric acid to break down the bond between the cellulose and lignin and cooked the mash in a big stainless steel vessel," he said.
The Gazette
"I soaked the sawdust in nitric acid to break down the bond between the cellulose and lignin and cooked the mash in a big stainless steel vessel," he said.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 01, 2013 -
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Category: Food
The Original Rock Dinner
Original page here.
In 1939, Kent Knowlton of Randsburg, CA, assembled a curious meal of petrified food for his amusement and that of others.
We have a record that it was still being exhibited a year later. Then, the "Original Rock Dinner" vanishes from history--until this very year!
An article on the "ghost town" of Randsburg features what appears to be a photo of the petrified food, nearly 75 years after its debut. I'd recognize that "cauliflower" anywhere!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 26, 2013 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Collectors, Food, Regionalism, 1930s, 1940s, Natural Wonders
Kangaroo Meat Scandal, 1960
The horse meat scandal is widening in Europe, with reports now surfacing that Ikea's meatballs have been found to contain horse. Ikea insists the meatballs sold in the U.S. are horse-less, even though the U.S. and European meatballs come from the same supplier.Of course, the U.S. has its own history of meat scandals, such as back in 1960 when Pennsylvanians got "hopping mad" to discover kangaroo meat was being mixed into their sausages and bologna.
In the past, I've purposefully had horse sausage and kangaroo filet. Or, at least, that's what I was told I was being served. Who knows. Maybe they were both really pork. I would never have been able to tell the difference.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 25, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Tattooed Apples
Ediblegeography.com delves into the history of apple tattooing. The concept is simple. You place a stencil on the fruit so that part of the skin isn't exposed to the sun, leaving a permanent image when the stencil is removed. However, getting it right is time consuming, so it's not a practice commercial farmers are likely to adopt. Pity, since I'd much prefer an apple tattoo over those obnoxious stickers that all the supermarket apples have on them. See more images of tattooed apples at the Société Régionale d’Horticulture de Montreuil.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 19, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd?
I learned of this song during a musical celebration of Black History Month on radio station WQXR. Certainly an artifact of its time.
You can mentally combine the instrumental music in the player with the words below.
Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd
There was once a great assemblage of the cullud population,
all the cullud swells was there,
They had got them-selves together to discuss the situation
and rumours in the air.
There were speakers there from Georgia and some from Tennessee,
who were making feather fly,
When a roostah in the bahn-ya'd flew up what folks could see,
Then those darkies all did cry.
Chorus:
Who dat say chicken in dis crowd?
Speak de word agin' and speak it loud--
Blame de lan' let white folks rule it,
I'se a lookin fu a pullet,
Who dat say chicken is dis crowd.
A famous culled preacher told his listnin' congregation,
all about de way to ac',
Ef dey want to be respected and become a mighty nation
to be hones' Fu' a fac'.
Dey mus nebber lie, no nebber, an' mus' not be caught a-stealin'
any pullets fun de lin',
But an aged deacon got up an' his voice it shook wif feelin',
As dese words he said to him.
Chorus:
Who dat say chicken in dis crowd?
Speak de word agin' and speak it loud--
What's de use of all dis talkin',
Let me hyeah a hen a sqauwkin'
Who dat say chicken in dis crowd.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 18, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Music, Stereotypes and Cliches, Nineteenth Century
Electric Waffles for Valentine’s Day
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 14, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Holidays, 1920s
Fried Dandelions
It would never have occurred to me to go out into the yard and fry up some dandelions.
dailyspud.com
• Rinse your dandelion flowers and gently pat dry using some kitchen paper.
• Place a frying pan over a medium heat and, when hot, add a thin layer of oil to the pan.
• Mix the polenta with the salt, black pepper, dried thyme and dried oregano.
• Dip the flowers first in the beaten egg and then in the seasoned polenta.
• Fry in batches, stalk side up, for around 3 minutes or until golden. Remove and drain on kitchen paper.
• Eat as a snack or use to surprise, and maybe even delight, unsuspecting family and friends.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 12, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Dirt Food
Chef Toshio Tanabe envisions his Tokyo restaurant Ne Quittez Pas as being like "a nature-surrounded auberge in southern France" where people can sit and eat dirt. His dirt-themed dishes include potato starch and dirt soup, salad with dirt dressing, sea bass with dirt risotto, dirt gratin, dirt ice cream, and dirt mint tea. However, this isn't just any dirt. It's "lab-tested…first-class agricultural soil from the farmlands north of Tokyo, baked, boiled, triple-filtered and mixed with gelatine." [foxnews]
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 08, 2013 -
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Category: Food
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