Tasty Tangents

My husband sent me a link to this Reuters video titled “Future kitchen without pots, recipes” and it gives an interesting glimpse into what great minds are envisioning for our future cooking facilities.
I’m not sure if or how soon our future cooktops will detect ingredients, instantly call up recipes, shape shift into pots and pans, [...]

Last night The James Beard Awards were given out, in categories as diverse as best television host, cookbook and restaurant design.
You can find the winners here, but the category that caught my eye was best food blog.
That award went to blogger Ed Levine’s seriouseats.com.
The website is actually an amalgamation of several sites, all of which [...]

Santa Clara County in California is trying to set a precedent by banning toys in Happy Meals that don’t fulfil certain nutritional requirements.
You can read more about it here, but the general idea is it might make high fat meals less appealing to kids.
It’s the latest attempt to curb the growing obesity epidemic among children [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big fan of Iron Chef America. Two chefs get an hour to prepare five dishes that showcase the day’s secret ingredient…then they are judged.
And other competitive cooking shows, think Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Chopped and Top Chef to name a few, can be very entertaining.
But apparently there’s a new [...]

Recently I blogged about the term “authenticity” when it comes to food.
Today I read an interesting article about the term “foodie” on theglobeandmail.com called Foodies: Culinary democrats or cultural snobs? It considers a new book about the term and different points of view about what it really means.
I’ve certainly been called a foodie, though [...]

Do you ever find that a picture on a news story has the opposite effect than the story would otherwise?
I was reading this article, “Sugary diets appear to worsen cholesterol levels,” which talks about how a diet high in sugar and processed food is bad for your health.
But whenever I looked at the picture of [...]

Today marks the one year anniversary of the earthquake that killed 308 people in the medieval city of L’Aquila, northwest of Rome, Italy.
So now you’re saying, that’s very sad, but what’s that got to do with food?
To start, the quake was so close to my hometown in Italy that all my relatives there felt it. [...]

As a food lover who also has to pay attention to my weight, a new study is awfully discouraging.
It says that older women must get at least an hour of moderate activity every day to maintain their weight.
I don’t think I’m quite in that age category yet, but since I already struggle with trying to [...]

So lately the recalls seem to be coming in fast and furious, potato chips, spices, cured meats, you name it, and it’s probably on some list or another.
And often, it’s one product, like a flavouring or additive, that ends up in so many different products and contaminates everything.
I don’t know about you, but I’m a [...]

I have recently begun to realize just how much is out there (online, that is) in the way of food and cooking information (I’ve included one popular example above). Whether it’s on blogs or news, tv and corporate websites, the volume of content that is available is staggering.
I was reading an article from The [...]