‘Consider flour as flavour’: Bakers turn to whole grains to give their baked goods a boost
“Folks in the 60s and 70s didn’t know how to work with whole grains, and were getting super gritty and dense baked goods,” says Kaufmann. For many in the counterculture, eating these brick-like baked goods was an anti-authority act unto itself. “You were committed to the idealism behind baking whole wheat bread, even if that meant retraining your palate to enjoy it.”
Refusing my mother's wholewheat quiche was the anti-authority act here.
Airlines and Airports – The Brooks Review
This one is really interesting, and had never occurred to me. Not that I have much choice when changing continents.
PROPERLY BREAKING UP A FLIGHT JOURNEY
Simple rule, I’ve learned the hard way: 2 equal length legs of a journey are far better than one long leg and one short one. If the entire world is conspiring against you, and you cannot get a non-stop flight, pick the one with the most equal durations of flying times and try to get a 2 hour layover. That’s enough to pee, stretch, eat, and not stress if your incoming flight is delayed. Also: it’s always better to fly in and out of larger airports as there’s far better food options.
How to discourage enterprise in the English countryside
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I have only seen one side of but I have no reason to doubt what I've seen there. To me it seems indisputable that, no matter what politicians like Michael Gove may say, there is no real desire to allow small farmers to reform the farming and food landscape in England.
In so many respects, marijuana is a mirror of food, as noted at the mothership https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/marijuana-goes-mainstream
A late contender for the best thing about #food I have read all year. Michael Lewis's feature Made in the U.S.D.A. goes inside Trump’s cruel campaign against the U.S.D.A.’s scientists https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/usda-food-stamps-school-lunch-trump-administration
According to one food writer, "dried chili peppers are grown in the Southwest and dehydrated onion and garlic are grown in California and Oregon" That's some impressive growing, right there.