Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Worshipping beer and other food and drink news


Oktoberfest's Cathedrals - "I wanted to find out what it's really all about," the artist says. "What I encountered was tradition, ritual, singing, customs, masses of people, giant buildings." All things he associated with cathedrals. "People also come to the tents to worship," he says. "What they worship here is beer and filthy lucre."

The (Fake) Meat Revolution - A revolution is unfolding in the food world, resulting in the first alternatives to meat that taste like the real thing. Veggie burgers used to seem like a blend of tofu and cardboard, but in the last few years food scientists have come up with first-rate faux chicken strips and beef crumbles. It will be a while before we’re fooled by a fake sirloin steak, but scientists think they’ll eventually get there.

Chenin Blanc Makes an Audacious U.S. Return

A dangerous myth about who eats fast food is completely false - New data, released by the Centers for Disease Control, show that America's love for fast food is surprisingly income blind. Well-off kids, poor kids, and all those in between tend to get about the same percentage of their calories from fast food, according to a survey of more than 5,000 people. More precisely, though, it's the poorest kids that tend to get the smallest share of their daily energy intake from Big Macs, Whoppers, Chicken McNuggets, and french fries.

Mother Knows Best When It Comes To Cooking With Moringa - Moringa is being touted as the newest superfood. But people in Asia and Africa have been eating it for years. Now there's also renewed interest in the tropical trees' ability to feed poor communities.

Baristas help design fool-proof non-dairy milk coffees

Children see 'tsunami of alcohol ads', says eminent professor of public health - Researchers found children and adolescents exposed to 51m instances of alcohol advertising on AFL, cricket and NRL TV shows in Australia in one-year period

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