What is your comfort food?

A reporter recently wanted to know my opinion on comfort foods -- so I'm posing two questions: 1) what is your comfort food & 2) why do you think this is so? Once we have a number of suggestions, we can start posing a theory! (I'm not even going to post a photo to try and influence you!

The Gourmet Generation

In this article in the Christian Science Monitor, I suggest a couple of reasons why some of the Y-Generation have embraced cooking-from-scratch. Apart from culinary/baking students, do you have close friends who have embraced "extreme" cooking and why do you think they choose to spend their time and money doing so?

The best food city?

The Huffinton Post has compiled the top "food cities" based on the number of Michelin stars (related to size). What is the best food city that you've visited and what makes it so?

Trying to eat local?

The Food and Water Watch has made a great map, showing where the concentration of meat & dairy production takes place in the United States. Check out the map -- and consider, why might this be problematic?

Politics of Good Pizza

Not to mix politics with food (!), but here is a video with John Steward on The Daily Show with a monologue on eating pizza in NYC. Who decides what is good food or bad food? How do you define "authenticity"? Who decides what is "authentic"?

Poop Meat

Freegans and hard-core recycling have to go one step further. There is now a group of scientists in Japan who have found a way to extract proteins in human excrement into a new a new mix, which also includes soy protein. Here is a video and here is an article (kindly given to me by John S!). So, is this a good way to recycle and to feed the world? Why or why not? Does it challenge your food taboos?

Not Sure What to Eat for Dinner? Kraft will Tell You!

Not sure what to eat for dinner? Not a problem anymore. FastCompany introduces us to a kiosk now found in stores that will scan your face and then recommend items to have for dinner (the kiosk is owned/operated/funded by Kraft so only their products are recommended). Read the article & see it in action here. Is this a good thing for us? Why or why not?