Food News, Local Edition

What do you call Coke? That, of course, depends on where you live.

Speaking of drinks...America's unhealthiest drinks, exposed. 

Speaking of unhealthy, this man eats nothing but Mars bars. And he only weighs 14 stone!

If Obama and McCain were food...what food would they be? Favorite answer:

Obama: an arugula salad with heirloom tomatoes (locally grown and organic, naturally), fresh figs, goat cheese and lemon-pepper dressing.

McCain: beef jerky

The downside of locavorianism: the inefficiencies of scale involved. Like building your home from scratch.

A user's guide to optimal caffeine usage. (I take the green tea approach.)

More bad news for locavores: Turns out what you eat matters much, much more than where it's grown.

Another article on the same topic:

"Shoppers concerned about the environment should not place "buying local" at the top of their list of priorities when purchasing food, according to a study published online on April 16 in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The fuel burned in transporting food items from farm to marketplace creates just a small percentage of the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the food. Instead, consumers should shift their diets to include more foods that require less energy to produce in the first place."

Eat a little extra veg and live longer.

Now, what should you do about breakfast?

Adding tequila to tofu is such a perfectly good idea; yet inexplicably, I haven't come up with it before.

Comments

[Manda]

Hi Kathy,

Thanks for the mention, I feel very important now :)

Have a margarita on me.