Food writer Michael Pollan once advised "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Now, he tells us how to cook it. In his new book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, he takes a tour of the most time-tested cooking techniques, from southern whole-hog barbecue and slow-cooked ragus to sourdough baking and pickle making.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/03/180824408/michael-pollan-you-are-what-you-cook
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How 13 strangers from different food cultures, met, cooked and shared some fascinating culinary stories.
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Chef and writer Yotam Ottolenghi talks about his Mediterranean feasts, Neil Forbes gorges on garlic and Michael Smith makes a spiced cous cous in homage to his mother in law.
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Student cooking - the panel reminisce about the worst thing they have ever cooked. Other topics include: traditional feasting rituals, using up post-Christmas cheeses and what really constitutes ‘fasting’.
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From food scientists who study the human palate to maximize consumer bliss, to marketing campaigns that target teens to hook them for life on a brand, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss’ new book goes inside the world of processed, packaged goods.
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Did you know that the human overbite may have evolved after people began using forks and knives? In Consider the Fork, author Bee Wilson traces how kitchen tools—from knives to pots to gas stoves—have changed over time, and how they have influenced what, and how, we eat.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/28/168203187/consider-the-fork-chronicles-evolution-of-eating
According to poet Kevin Young, the best poems are like the best meals â they’re made from scratch. Young has edited a new collection of poems that celebrate the pleasures of food, from "butter disappearing into whipped sweet potatoes" to oysters that taste like "starlight."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/22/165489750/a-readable-feast-poems-to-feed-the-hungry-ear
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When food passes its sell-by date, it’s swept from the supermarket shelf. But that doesn’t mean it’s not safe to eat. Taste and smell are usually better indicators of a food’s safety. And some items, like canned foods, can even last years or decades after their expiration date.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/26/167819082/dont-fear-that-expired-food
Judging from the copious blogs and metres of magazine columns most of the Western world wants to not only eat and drink good food and wine, but write about it as well.
And if we could get paid for it, and do it from an exotic locale, then that would be just cream on the cake.
But really, how hard is it make a crust from food writing?
RN First Bite is a fly on the wall as a bunch of hopefuls practise their craft in the quest for a different life.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite/food-writing/4003658
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