Finding a little bratophobia at your restaurant and other news and views

Food Culture Gives Rise To New 'Eatymology' - Our food-obsessed media landscape has proven fertile ground for wordplay. There are now new words to describe every food niche or gastronomical preference. Can't stand little kids running amok in your favorite Korean fusion restaurant? You might have bratophobia.And you could be a gastrosexual if you use your cooking prowess to attract that new special someone. In his new book, Eatymology, humorist and food writer Josh Friedland has collected many of these neologisms in a 21st century food dictionary.

SBS food channel a deep-fried disaster - Joy at the launch of the SBS Food Channel last year has turned to despair as the multicultural broadcaster pushes out a prime-time celebration of grotesquely unhealthy American junk food.

Around the country, organic farmers are pushing for ‘GE-free’ zones - Jackson County, Oregon, has just joined the small but growing ranks of “GE-free zones” in the U.S., which prohibit the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. It’s at least the eighth county in the country to create such an ordinance, and efforts are springing up to pass similar measures in other places.

A Theory About Cinnamon and Recipes - Economist Brad de Long writes:

It strikes me that most of the standard recipes come from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the relative price of cinnamon was much higher than it is today. Thus it seems likely that most such inherited recipes economize on cinnamon to what is now an undue degree.
Proposal: triple the cinnamon in everything I cook for the next three months.
I will report back.