food
Factory Farming? Egg Recall!
World wide recall of eggs from the US. As hundreds of millions of eggs get recalled over salmonella fears, The Daily Beast talks to farmers and food activists about what went wrong—and finds 9 reasons to remain concerned from here on. It’s one of the country’s worst food-safety recalls, with more than 380 million eggs [...]
10 most common allergenic foods
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. You’re sitting down to dinner when, all of a sudden, your 9-month-old starts having difficulty breathing and begins swelling up around the mouth. Your child just consumed soy and is experiencing anaphylactic shock, anallergic reaction. What most people can eat freely might be fatal to someone with an allergy to [...]
Michael Pollan’s da man for shure!
I t can be complicated to simplify things, but sometimes we need to be reminded of the essentials. Michael Pollan’s done just that with his new book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. After researching The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008), Pollan came to an important realization: [...]
