Weekend Reads
As a lead-in to the 4th of July, the Daily Meal has posted “The Great American Fried Chicken Road Map” with coast-to-coast selections ranging from Seattle down to Miami and Los Angeles up to Boston.
http://www.thedailymeal.com/great-american-fried-chicken-roadmap-2013
Tom Philpott at Mother Jones critiques David H. Freeman’s recent Atlantic cover story “How Junk Food Can End Obesity.” Read them both and then decide for yourself:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-junk-food-can-end-obesity/309396/?single_page=true
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/06/fat-chance-why-atlantics-defense-junk-food-fails
Marion Nestle celebrates receiving her advance copy of her new book Eat, Drink, Vote: an Illustrated Guide to Food Politics, slated for release September 3rd.
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/06/eat-drink-vote-my-single-advance-copy/
With temperatures ranging from the low 80s into the 100s across the nation this past week, Saveur is your savior with their list of high rated, reader reviewed cold soups:
http://www.saveur.com/article/-/Cool-Soups
If anyone else panicked earlier this week after reading Buzzfeed’s article “8 Food’s We Eat In the U.S. That Are Banned In Other Countries,“ take a deep breath. NPR sent in investigators, and here is what they had to say:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyperez/8-foods-we-eat-in-the-us-that-are-banned-in-other-countries
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/06/24/195204951/our-beef-with-buzzfeeds-viral-article-on-8-dangerous-foods
10 towns in Maine revolt; declaring independence from state and federal regulations on locally produced food, also from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/28/186955163/farm-free-or-die-maine-towns-rebel-against-food-rules
Would you dare to eat guinea pig? Is Peru the next culinary trend, or is it just “having a moment” as CNN says? Read on to go deeper than rotisserie chicken and ceviche, with a video featuring the country’s leading chef, Gaston Acurio:
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2013/06/26/gaston-acurio-perus-culinary-god/
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2013/03/27/peruvian-food/
Nathanael Johnson, author of All Natural and Grist’s new food writer, comes out from behind the curtain to introduce himself with his manifesto for clean eating and clear thinking:
http://grist.org/food/beyond-gut-instinct-a-manifesto-for-clean-eating-and-clear-thinking/