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Sunday, 13 April 2025

Two Centuries Ago, Batteaumen on Virginia?s James River Ended Long Work Days With a Taste of Freedom

quote [ The James River Batteau Company, an outdoor recreation-meets-historical tour business, has designed a dinner cruise that honors the resilience and culinary ingenuity of enslaved boatmen ]

I had no money for the boatmen
[SFW] [food & drink] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:26amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 3 April 2025

How a Forgotten Bean Could Save Coffee From Extinction

quote [ One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ]

But I'm back on the coffee bean
[SFW] [food & drink] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:05amGMT] [1 comment]

Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Letter from the Levant - On the Origin of the Pork Taboo

quote [ Exploring ancient people?s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs ]

You make me want to eat pork
[SFW] [food & drink] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:56amGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 17 February 2025

The Quest to Save the World?s Rarest Pasta

quote [ For 300 years, only a handful of women in Sardinia possessed the skill to create ?threads of God.? ]

Because I like to eat pasta
[SFW] [food & drink] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:09amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 2 January 2025

Soup at the Barricades with the Queen of Georgian Cuisine

quote [ Nearly every night since protests broke out in October, Chef Tekuna Gachechiladze has been here in the streets, ladling out soup in paper bowls to protesters fighting for their country's future. ]

And they've got soup for you
[SFW] [food & drink] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@12:08pmGMT] [0 comments]



Monday, 23 December 2024

Inside the Japanese-American Farm Preserving Endangered Fruit

quote [ How one family turned their peach orchard into a rallying cry for saving heirloom flavors and building community. ]

Through the orchards and the peach-filled lines
[SFW] [food & drink] [+1 Good]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:00amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 12 December 2024

Pizza Hut Taiwan Knows It?s Making Italians Angry

quote [ From stinky tofu to Oreo-calamari, there's a method to their specialty-pie madness. ]

This was a Pizza Hut
[SFW] [food & drink] [+3]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:01amGMT] [3 comments]

Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Eating the earth

quote [ The burgeoning global food trade is a lifeline for billions, but it is fragile and hard on the planet ]

to trade my thoughts for food
[SFW] [food & drink] [+1 Informative]
[by ScoobySnacks@2:39pmGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 3 November 2024

Why Butterfingers Break

quote [ I?ve always been deeply curious about the brittle nature of Butterfinger candy bars?so with that in mind, I thought way too hard about it in this piece. ]

I'm cracking my toes and my hands eating Butter-fingers
[SFW] [food & drink] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:02amGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 31 October 2024

The Salty, Sun-Dried Shrimp Paste That Tastes Like Home

quote [ A fermented seafood delicacy keeps the Karen people of India connected to their homeland in Myanmar. ]

We eat so many shrimp
[SFW] [food & drink] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [1 comment]



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