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Min/Median/Max household income for NYC locations of various supermarket chains.
nyc  food  income  class  chart 
7 weeks ago by fakeisthenewreal
Sriracha Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Lemon Caramel Vinaigrette | austingastronomist.com
love finding things based on what people link to next to links to my site.
recipe  food 
9 weeks ago by fakeisthenewreal
Recipes for the Semi-Vegan (Bitmannania)
Loaded Miso Soup
Fried Rice
Tomato-Rice Soup
Pasta, Beans and Tomatoes
Saffron-Mushroom Risotto
Bean Burgers
Spinach and Chickpeas
Brussel Sprouts
Sweet-Potato Stew
Roasted Squash with Kale
food  recipe  from notes
december 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
The full guide to the best milkshakes in the borough • The Brooklyn Paper
MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD
food  brooklyn 
december 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
French Tomato Tart | David Lebovitz
i got a bent throat
food 
october 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Welcome To Philly-Pinoy Foods
The cruise terminal induces its first business! Contact the store in Philly?
food  biz  from twitter
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
The Restaurant With The Cruise Ship Out Front | The Awl
Pinoy convenience store/restaurant near Red Hook Cruise Terminal, catering to ship workers. Grows from car to van to storefront:
"This is more of a bootstrap story, of finding opportunity in the negative spaces"
urban  redhook  brooklyn  economy  food 
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Taco Bell and the Golden Age of Drive-Thru - BusinessWeek
Really hard to tell the difference between this and a Bldg Blog post at some points. The description of the food assembly line is ballardian.
food  industry  from instapaper
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
A Secret Downside of the Urban Beekeeping Trend - Robin Shulman - Food - The Atlantic
"Another beekeeper, according to apiarist lore, lived near a candy factory in Syracuse, and his bees produced a lovely, delicate spearmint- and winter mint-flavored honey"
food  nyc  ecology  urban 
december 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Typical McDonalds Site Plan (pdf)
from AboutMcDonalds.com (official McDo site).
Just under 1 ac, 71 parking spots.
Their criteria:
"Corner or corner wrap with signage on two major streets. / Signalized intersection. / Ability to build up to 4,000 sq. ft. / Parking to meet all applicable codes. / Ability to build to a minimum height of 23' 4"."
food  real_estate  the_fuckers  built_to_be_destroyed  urban  development 
october 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Mathematically Correct Breakfast -- Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel
"It is much more fun to put cream cheese on these bagels than on an ordinary bagel. In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area."
food  awesome  math 
december 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
In ''eat local'' movement, Cuba is years ahead
Urban farming doing well in Cuba. In other news, a poor country with high unemployment and poor agricultural production turns to gardening to feed itself.
food  cuba  urban  news 
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Council bans new fast-food outlets in South L.A. - Los Angeles Times
Food zoning for health reasons in South Central. Great for existing fast food joints. "The councilwoman said she expected city officials to come up with financial assistance for some restaurants."
la  zoning  urban  planning  food  crackpot  news 
august 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Disappearing Foods: Encouraging a Comeback - The New York Times
towards a map of indigenous foodways in US.
map  usa  news  food 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
"Agriculture in the United States — much of which now serves the demand for meat — contributes to nearly 3/4 of all water-quality problems in the nation’s rivers and streams, according to the EPA."
news  farm  food  usa  environment 
january 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Weed It and Reap / Michael Pollan / NYT
This year's farm bill is slightly less worse than those in the past.
food  usa  politics  environment 
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Marshmallow Fluff Festival, Union Square, Somerville
!
via:ian.crowther  boston  food  festival 
september 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1sep03
against monoculture and centralization
food  usa  politics  planning  sustainability 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Weiner Circle [YouTube]
This American Life TV show clip. Chicago style hot dogs with racial epiphets. Brie is right, Lincoln Park blows. (the dogs are good, tho)
video  chicago  race  food 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
blood type diet [Skeptic's Dictionary]
crackpot eating scheme
food  fake  stupid  health 
august 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Weston A. Price Foundation
"fd. 1999 to disseminate work of Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated nonindustrialized peoples ... demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form & perfect health only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods & the vital fat-soluble ac
food  crackpot?  environment  health 
july 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
New York Sun Works: Science Barge
"sustainable urban farm [on a barge] powered by solar, wind, and biofuels, and irrigated by rainwater and purified river water."
water  nyc  science  environment  food 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia - New York Times
Chicken bones from between "1304 and 1424" traced to Polynesian chickens. Thor Heyerdal in reverse.
chile  food  archeology  history  hidden_patterns  news 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Palais de Tokyo - Accueil
photo/video/installation project about politics of the sugar market. critial tastiness studies. thx a.
viaswftkik  food  politics  art  france  css>flash 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Opium Made Easy (Harper's, April 1, 1997)
Grow poppies for fun and paranoia
food  law  monopoly_on_violence  horticulture 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie -- megnut.com
averaged baking process. tasty & hilarious.
intensely_nerdy  math  food  viakottke 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Good vegetarian food in Boston? | Ask MetaFilter
boston  food  archive 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
You Are What You Grow by Michael Pollan - New York Times
On the Farm Bill, the price of a calorie, & the effects subsidized corn, soy & dairy. $1 buys "1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots." (I'll keep posting Pollan articles as long as he keeps writing them)
food  environment  policy  usa  health  news 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Food in Myanmar - Travel - New York Times
Country ruled by brutal junta is quaint/cheap because of lack of processed or imported food. Deprivation+opression=>authenticity?
food  news  burma  stupid  die_yuppie_scum 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
HABER & BOSCH - Haber-Bosch process
"1% of the world's energy supply is used for it, it sustains roughly 40% of the population. Billions of people would not even exist without it."
chemistry  world  food  energy  ecology 
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The New Yorker : talk : Surowiecki on Sugar & Ethanol
Fucking knot of tariffs & price props helps Agribiz, Big Sugar & Big Oil. Hurts environment, consumers, 3rd world sugar cane growers. I blame Illinois!
end_of_rome  environment  economics  politics  goddamn_fucking_christ  usa  oil  food 
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
"And always remember: Everything about food and cooking is a metaphor for sex. "
food  environment  sustainability  activism 
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
The Pantry Forager | Food & Wine
"Brooklyn-style cucina povera." Annoying little piece. Note list of cookbooks included.
food  brooklyn 
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Snacksby is a really neat recipe site. For serious! | Snacksby
recipe site. Killer feature: enter the dregs of your pantry, output possible recipes.
requiem_for_lost_ideas  folksonomy  food 
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
TomDispatch - Tomgram: Chad Heeter, Breakfasting on Valvoline
valvoline, gasoline, all the ones in between: more on the oil we eat. via estee.
food  environment  sustainability  oil  energy  end_of_rome  via:estee 
july 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
NASS - Publications
national agriculture statistics services
food  statistics  archive  usa 
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
No Bar Code
More excerpts from M. Pollan's new one: "An evangelical Virginia farmer says a revolution against industrial agriculture is just down the road."
food  magazine  environment 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
McDonald's REIT Could Be a Sizzler
This story = dumb, but it establishes the point (orig from Fast Food Natn): McDonald's is a real estate company that happens to sell hamburgers.
hidden_patterns  food  urban 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
zefrank.com :: if the earth were a sandwich data visualization
Google maps to make the earth a sandwich...
google  food 
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
free-lunch
"Maybe the ‘free-lunch’ proposal is too aimless?" -bringing together artists for conversations. Has a strange and buggy backend, but the idea is decent. Aimlessness is to be valued, on occasion
art  food 
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
McDonald's Videogame
antigame
game  food 
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
How to Save the World
richard manning: against the grain
food  politics 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Acres U.S.A. -- A Comparison of Energy Inputs in Feedlot versus Grass-Fed Beef
How much fossil fuel is required to produce a pound of beef on a feedlot?
food  ecology  environment  energy  usa 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
The Corpulent Society
trashfood
food  ecology  energy 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
The Oil We Eat (Harpers.org)
delicious oil: "In 1940 the average farm in the United States produced 2.3 calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil energy it used. By 1974 (the last year anyone checked), that ratio was 1:1"
environment  food  oil  ecology  end_of_rome 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
This Steer's Life by Michael Pollan (from NYT Mag, 2002)
"Assuming [the cow] continues to eat 25 pounds of corn a day and reaches a weight of 1,250 pounds, he will have consumed in his lifetime roughly 284 gallons of oil. "
food  usa  ecology  environment 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Slice: Where Is It?
fitnr guesswherenyc pic on pizza blog. I accidently uploaded an unedited version of this shot (notice that it's greenish) but figured who cares.
re:fitnr  food  nyc  flickr 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
SWAMP - Coke Is It
"When C3 finds a puddle of coke, it sucks the beverage up through an electrical pump, and then sprays it across itself."
food  robot  art  song_of_the_corporates 
january 2006 by fakeisthenewreal
Ever So Humble, Cast Iron Outshines the Fancy Pans - New York Times
food 
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Slowfood.com
They had the best selection,
They were poisoned with protection
food  politics  activism  sustainability 
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Ecoliteracy | Michael Pollan on Corn
"If you are what you eat, and especially if you eat industrial food, as 99 percent of Americans do, what you are is corn"
food  environment  politics  usa 
december 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Hot Chick Stoner BBQ
some not-so-hot chicks in N. California smoking pot and making a bootleg cooking show
food  video  california 
november 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Sassafras - Wikipedia
Although sassafras can serve many useful purposes, safrole is now recognized by the USDA as a carcinogen
food  history  spice  wikipedia 
march 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
anthony's ROOT BEER barrel
food 
march 2005 by fakeisthenewreal
Welcome to Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages
spice  food  archive  reference 
march 2005 by fakeisthenewreal

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