Hott Links: Food on the Attack

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Corn is the Enemy [A Mighty Appetite]

Peanut Butter Kills [The Consumerist]

Airplane Substance Maliciously Disguised as Food [Telegraph]

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ES Sponsors Will Blow Your Food-Loving Mind

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Eat salmon. It’s full of good omega-3 fats. Don’t eat salmon. It’s full of PCBs and mercury. Eat more veggies. They’re full of good antioxidants. Don’t eat more veggies. The pesticides will give you cancer.

Ugh. Eating is so fucking hard nowadays. That’s why you should check out Joe Schwarcz’ An Apple a Day, the latest guide to all the myths, misconceptions, and realities surrounding the increasingly complex practice of putting things in your mouth and chewing. Do us a solid and click on that link to your right to read a preview of Joe’s hott new book. And check out more tasty reads over at our food lover’s book club.

(Photo: Lazuchenkov)

Picks of the Pics: Best of the ES Flickr Pool

Ya’ll have been busy adding pretty pics over at the Endless Simmer Flickr Pool. Time to look at a few of our favs:

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Since we’re talking about weird egg dishes, thought I’d through in zucv’s photo of “pork bone soup squid ramem.” With an egg of course. Thoughts?

Bacon-wrapped steak, dreams of grilling, and goat cheese madness, after the jump…

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Is Gourmet Gonzo?

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As most of you probably know, the entire print media industry is currently in a state of declining ad sales utter panic. This whole annoying recession thing means all kinds of companies have stopped buying advertisements, which makes it awfully hard for publications that rely on those advertisements to turn a profit, and yet glossy ad pages have still not made it onto Obama’s list of industries that get a magic bailout.

Not surprisingly, this has led to layoffs virtually everywhere, and more than a few publications have already gone out of business. But so far, those folding completely have mostly been limited to fringe-y publications and spinoff mags — Men’s Vogue, CosmoGirl, Cigar Aficionado 4 Kids and the like. But the continuing recession has led to a new gruesome media world guessing game — which mag is the next to die? Shockingly, at least one Wall Street analyst says your favorite purveyor of squirrel tartare and hypocritical inserts could be the first major food magazine asked to pack its shrinkwrap and leave:

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