The Temple of Busy is making us into fat pigs
Time to find a new church — about self-improvement. Continue Reading
Food
The incredibly true story of how my fat, lazy ass learned to cook at age 29
A snapshot of three periods of my life: The summer before I turned 21, I lived with five of my best friends in D.C. I couldn’t cook at all. I don’t think we were allowed a meal plan in the… Continue Reading
How to make Thanksgiving dinner via YouTube
You can manage Christmas almost entirely via YouTube, and do the same with Super Bowl (or other occasion) chili recipes. But the mother of all multiple-prepared-dishes holidays is Thanksgiving. Can you get at that via YouTube? Of course. In fact, I… Continue Reading
David Lobell and what we’re eating in 20 years
It’s pretty fashionable to rail against the current food production system in the world, but it turns out there are agricultural data scientists out there — guys that work with Google on data sets and get Genius Grants and teach… Continue Reading
Elizabeth Cauvel vs. Courtney Lapresi is going to be the MasterChef 2014 finale, right?
It seems like they’ve been building to a female showdown as the finals for some time now, right? Continue Reading
Courtney Lapresi and Cutter Brewer are just awful to watch on MasterChef Season 5
I’ve been watching a lot of Master Chef recently. I have no idea why. This morning, I woke up at 4:21am having to pee. I did that and couldn’t successfully go back to sleep, so I went and watched the… Continue Reading
Your kids may be eating sand in their pizza at school
From Mother Jones and their visit to a school lunch conference: While the exhibitors were eager to show off their products’ nutritional stats, few offered actual ingredients lists. When I asked the rep at the Uno pizza booth why ingredients weren’t included… Continue Reading
If everyone in America stopped eating beef tomorrow and started eating chicken, it’d be like taking 26 million cars off the road
Check out the chart above, via here. It compares the greenhouse gas emissions linked with the production of beef and chicken. As you can see, chicken is a lot less — in fact, it’s about four times less. If you were… Continue Reading