American supermarkets appear to offer us unlimited choices—multiple brands of almost anything we want, an example of American entrepreneurialism gone wild. It is an illusion:
Category: Contemporary Food Culture
Biases in Crowdsourced Reviews
I’ve found crowdsourced review sites like Yelp to be utterly unreliable for anything but the most basic information about a restaurant. A new study suggests
The Food Haters are Out in Force
The anti-foodie backlash is picking up steam, as people who don’t like to play with their food are throwing tantrums about food sucking up all
On Being Charged with Prostitution
Paella is one of my favorite dishes because it is so versatile. For those of us who like to play with our food, it’s the
A Chef’s Mythology
Usually when chefs talk about their “philosophy”, it amounts to a few platitudes about using fresh ingredients or locally-sourced ingredients—admirable and tasty but calling it
The Joy of Cooking
In a very interesting post about the growing influence of food blogs especially in academia, Judith Newton makes some critically important, more general, claims about
