elsi:
Jason Fulford :: Peanut Butter
via jasonfulford.com
eat it, y'all
Food Rules: Your Dietary Dos and Don’tsThis may sound weird, but I feel like I should take part in killing a pig at some point. Cow, too, probably. Yes, it might be the fastest road to vegetarianism, but I feel like we should face our food and own up to it. If we can’t do that, we don’t deserve to eat it.
Am I hungry enough to kill?
“ Other things to note: is the food allowed to touch, or does the client work to keep the food in separate, tidy areas? If the former, the client is comfortable with status quo and relaxed. If the latter, it suggests an orderly mind, and one that has a place for everything. Does the client eat a bit of everything, or does he or she eat all of the same food type at once, then move onto the next food type? If the former, your client is a good collaborator, interested in the way disparate ideas work together. If the latter, your client may be a good at building skills sets of individual groups.
Check Please: How to Learn About Your Clients From Their Table Manners - Core77
(via k)
Check out more comfort food pillows here.
Health care problem? Big. Food problem? BIGGER.
“To put it bluntly, the government is putting itself in the uncomfortable position of subsidizing both the costs of treating Type 2 diabetes and the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup.”
Michael Pollan, why do you always make SO MUCH SENSE?!
…Ssalt and sugar and umami are primal signals about the food we are eating—about how dense it is in calories, for example, or, in the case of umami, about the presence of proteins and amino acids. What Heinz had done was come up with a condiment that pushed all five of these primal buttons. The taste of Heinz’s ketchup began at the tip of the tongue, where our receptors for sweet and salty first appear, moved along the sides, where sour notes seem the strongest, then hit the back of the tongue, for umami and bitter, in one long crescendo. How many things in the supermarket run the sensory spectrum like this?
Malcolm Gladwell | The Ketchup Conundrum | Gladwell.com
image via www.fpg.com
