Category: Food – Nutrition

Did you know bananas are in threes? For centuries in England, the "plowman's lunch" was associated with farm laborers who ate a midday meal of bread, cheese, pickled onions, and a drink consisting of beer. Today, this is a popular lunch served in British pubs.

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Disturbing – Researchers Finally Confirm That Cancer Is A Purely Man-Made Disease

In the United Kingdom alone, Cancer claims more than 150,000 lives each year. Statistics also show that about one in three people in the United Kingdom is likely to get cancer.

The researchers spent a great deal of time studying mummies, fossils, and classical literature before arriving at their conclusion.
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Salt, Sugar and Fat

Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

Updated December 16, 20152:48 PM

The food industry has processed lots of foods to hit that “bliss point” — that perfect amount of sweetness that would send eaters over the moon. In doing so, it’s added sweetness in plenty of unexpected places – like bread and pasta sauce, says investigative reporter Michael Moss.

It is no secret that the rise in obesity in America has something to do with food. But how much? And what role does the food industry as a whole play?

As part of Here & Now’s series this week on obesity, America on the Scale, host Jeremy Hobson spoke with investigative reporter Michael Moss of The New York Times.

Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

For Moss’s book, Salt Sugar Fat, he went inside the industry and spoke with food inventors and CEOs about how the industry has shaped what people eat and capitalized on how American eating habits have changed — for the worse and, maybe now, for the better. Highlights from their conversation follow, edited for brevity and clarity.

Interview Highlights

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Apicius

Apicius
Apicius

A gourmand. The name  belonged to three celebrated Roman epicures, the most
famous of whom was Marcus Gavius Apicius, who lived in the first century a.d. and was the author of a book of recipes known as Of Culinary Matters.
When he was faced through financial difficulty with having to restrict himself to a plain diet, he killed himself rather than  suffer such privation.

This Apicius dedicated his life to seeking out new taste
sensations in the restaurants and hotels of Manhattan.

See Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome – Project Gutenberg

Source: http://www.greenvalleyhs.org/library/Documents/Allusions.pdf