Food
The Case for the Humble Garbage Disposal
This is an interesting article, but I do have a lot of concerns with mixing food waste with the often contaminated waste-water systems. Waste water, municipal sewage contains everything from motor oil, pharmaceuticals, PFOAs from dish washing and landfills, landfill leachate, wash waters from industrial processes. It's problematic to be spreading it composted on the fields, even if poop and food waste are good fertilizer. I'd rather see more development up SSOW -- source separated organic waste, rather then mining the waste from mixed sourced sewage sludge.
Drinking Coffee From Saucer is a Retro Way to Cool Your Hot Coffee
Drinking coffee from a saucer was certainly done as a way to quickly cool down the hot beverage inside the cup. Because coffee was boiled, it was served extremely hot. Saucers, some of which were more like shallow bowls, allowed the liquid to cool faster by spreading it over more surface area. It was more efficient, and more polite, to drink coffee from a saucer rather than slurping it while it was hot.
It's not clear where drinking coffee or tea from the saucer started as a practice. There are references to the practice being common in Russia and Scandinavia. In Sweden, they purposely overfilled their cup so they could drink from the saucer; they would hold a lump of sugar in their front teeth and sip the hot beverage through it in a tradition called "dricka pοΏ½ bit" or "drink with a lump."
Difference between vanilla, vanillin, and ethyl vanillin
"Vanilla, vanillin, and ethyl vanillin taste similar. Theyβre all used to make food taste like vanilla. As well as in the making of perfumes and other scents. They also seem to popular in the e-cigarette community. But the three flavorings diverge in origins, application, and taste. What are the differences between vanilla, vanillin, and ethyl vanillin?"
Learn everything you need to know about Candy Corn
Candy corn first appeared when America was largely an agrarian society. The tri-color design was considered revolutionary and the public went crazy for it. We don’t know if the fact that so many Americans had farm experience at that time, if urban dwellers found it charming or if it was some combination of the two that made it so popular. Lack of machinery meant that candy corn was only made seasonally, probably gearing up in late August and continuing through the fall. It has remained unchanged for more than 100 years and is a favorite at Halloween.
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The Complicated Reasons People Eat Meat | LIVEKINDLY
While I am certainly a meat eater I think this a very interesting essay.
Scientists audit garbage to assess household food waste β Peninsula News Review
Five meals a week: Scientists audit garbage to assess household food waste β Peninsula News Review
Previous efforts have relied on industry data or household self-reporting to assess how much uneaten food goes in the garbage. But people underestimate how much they chuck and industry figures provide little detail on individual homes.
The only way, von Massow thought, was to get down and dirty.
He and his research colleagues worked with 94 households in Guelph, Ont.. The scientists took out the trash, went through recycling, organic waste and composting, separated mushy asparagus from dubious rice and weighed it all out over the course of several weeks.