Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Eating behind bars and other food and wine news and views


Prison-themed restaurant opens in Jilin - In the restaurant, customers eat in iron cages, and waiters send meals into the cages from cell doors. In addition, the restaurant has specially developed prison set meals, including wowotou (a kind of steamed corn bread).

School lunch study: Visual proof kids are tossing mandated fruits and veggies in trash - Less than a month before Congress votes on whether to reauthorize a controversial program mandating healthier school lunches, a new study confirms the suspicions of school officials - many students are putting the fruits and vegetables they're now required to take straight into the trash, consuming fewer than they did before the law took effect.


There’s a new crayfish species and it’s named after Edward Snowden - German researcher Christian Lukhaup is a pretty big Edward Snowden fan. So he decided to name a new species of crayfish after the former National Security Agency contractor. The Cherax snowden, which doesn't bear any particular resemblance to Snowden, lives in freshwater tributary creeks in West Papau, Indonesia. Lukhaup and two other researchers described the crayfish in an article published Monday by the journal ZooKeys. ... In his latest paper, Lukhaup explained the new crayfish name, writing that Snowden is an "American freedom fighter" and "the name is used as a noun in apposition."

In The Search For The Perfect Sugar Substitute, Another Candidate Emerges - There's a new candidate in the century-old quest for perfect, guiltless sweetness. ... It's called allulose.

How China’s fish bladder investment craze is wiping out species on the other side of the planet

Have You Tried the New Cheese Called Quark?


Change the Tune—our reinterpretation of one of Coca-Cola’s most famous advertisements

The FDA is making a big change to nutrition labels. And it’s probably a big mistake.

What sounds good in theory doesn't always pan out in practice.


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