Going to a farmers market today? (Or ever?) Read this from Tom Philpott: “The local food economy in two charts.”
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Say Hi To Your Burger For Me of the Day: Hingham, MA-based chef Paul Wahlberg and his slightly better-known brothers Mark and Donnie are opening up a hamburger joint.
Guess what it’s called. Go on, guess. That’s right: Wahlburgers.
After purchasing the rights to the name from burger chain owner Tom Wahl, whose restaurants sold a sandwich called the “Wahlburger,” the brothers are all set to open their flagship restaurant in Hingham’s historic shipyard.
Meanwhile, Videogum is going the good kind of nuts compiling a list of other obvious businesses run by pun-friendly celebrities.
[herald / h/t: interweber.]
I love it when celebrities use their names for their restaurants. Wahlburgers. Ha!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqi25rqWPq1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Say Hi To Your Burger For Me of the Day: Hingham, MA-based chef Paul Wahlberg and his slightly better-known brothers Mark and Donnie are opening up a hamburger joint.
Guess what it’s called. Go on, guess. That’s right: Wahlburgers.
After purchasing the rights to the name from burger chain owner Tom Wahl, whose restaurants sold a sandwich called the “Wahlburger,” the brothers are all set to open their flagship restaurant in Hingham’s historic shipyard.
Meanwhile, Videogum is going the good kind of nuts compiling a list of other obvious businesses run by pun-friendly celebrities.
[herald / h/t: interweber.]
I love it when celebrities use their names for their restaurants. Wahlburgers. Ha!
Doesn’t this sound like something Paula Deen would make just to fuck with us?
Did anyone know there was something called “Cinnamon Sugar Butter Spread” out there in the U.S.?
My mouth is watering!
The Bian Dang Taiwanese food truck is pleasing to the eye.
Oh my god, how did I miss this?!
Lucky Peach: David Chang of Momofuku New York’s new quarterly published through McSweeneys.
It contains Ruth Reichl reviewing instant ramen! Tales of overeating in Japan! “REBEL CHEF” Heads decrying mediocrity! IN COMIC SANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will pick up this magazine when I’m back in the States and hope that the recipes make up for all that ridiculousness above.
Coke Evolution
via Kurt White
Broccoli House
I couldn’t build a tree house for my son, so I built him a broccoli house instead.
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The food to be found in a small city in Hunan: snails, pig tripe and sweet potato noodles. (More)
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Dumbed-Down Dietary Guidelines of the Day: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s familiar Food Pyramid has officially been put out to pasture, replaced by a pie chart plate chart that aims to simplify the government’s recommended dietary guidelines.
“Parents don’t have the time to measure out exactly three ounces of chicken or to look up how much rice or broccoli is in a serving,” First lady Michelle Obama said today at the unveiling of the MyPlate campaign.
What’s different? More fruits and veggies (half a plate), less meat (which has been renamed “protein”). “We hope this will lead to the behavior changes, which is really what we need,” said the USDA’s deputy director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Robert C. Post.
The MyPlate website offers a look back [pdf] at the various incarnations of the USDA’s food guide graphics.
[npr / usn / eater.]
Interesting - new dietary guidelines on MyPlate](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm6dzig38E1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Dumbed-Down Dietary Guidelines of the Day: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s familiar Food Pyramid has officially been put out to pasture, replaced by a
pie chartplate chart that aims to simplify the government’s recommended dietary guidelines.“Parents don’t have the time to measure out exactly three ounces of chicken or to look up how much rice or broccoli is in a serving,” First lady Michelle Obama said today at the unveiling of the MyPlate campaign.
What’s different? More fruits and veggies (half a plate), less meat (which has been renamed “protein”). “We hope this will lead to the behavior changes, which is really what we need,” said the USDA’s deputy director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Robert C. Post.
The MyPlate website offers a look back [pdf] at the various incarnations of the USDA’s food guide graphics.
Interesting - new dietary guidelines on MyPlate
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Green Gamification of the Day: In an effort to help consumers reconnect with “where their food comes from,” The National Trust is launching an “IRL FarmVille project” that will allow up to 10,000 individual to control nearly every aspect of a working farm in Cambridgeshire.
Each one of MyFarm’s members will get to vote on “major decisions” affecting the farm — from which bull to buy, to which crop to plant. “I will put in here whatever the online farmers want to grow,” Wimpole Estate farm manager Richard Morris told The Guardian.
“The online farmers will not be able to choose to grow cannabis or bananas, but undoubtedly there will be some strange decisions, some decisions I would not have made.”
Tomacco, anyone?
[guardian / ontd.]
This is actually kinda cool!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkou3ridVF1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Green Gamification of the Day: In an effort to help consumers reconnect with “where their food comes from,” The National Trust is launching an “IRL FarmVille project” that will allow up to 10,000 individual to control nearly every aspect of a working farm in Cambridgeshire.
Each one of MyFarm’s members will get to vote on “major decisions” affecting the farm — from which bull to buy, to which crop to plant. “I will put in here whatever the online farmers want to grow,” Wimpole Estate farm manager Richard Morris told The Guardian.
“The online farmers will not be able to choose to grow cannabis or bananas, but undoubtedly there will be some strange decisions, some decisions I would not have made.”
Tomacco, anyone?
This is actually kinda cool!
