The New York Times
How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food
14+ min · · Those overhead food videos that you watch and watch? BuzzFeed’s Tasty has mastered the format to become one of the world’s most popular content producers. · Shared by 85, including Mark Kaigwa, blinch, ilaria defilippo, Rate limit exceeded, Daniel Benchimol, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Jeremy Caplan, Lelio Simi, Jennifer Hurst, Martin Stabe
The New Yorker
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth
8 min · · In his final years, Bourdain attained a new sort of celebrity as an activist, a revered elder statesman, and an overt and uncompromising figure of moral authority. · Shared by 187, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Alexandra Wong, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Mathew Ingram, Dominik Grolimund, Gabriele, Ron McIntyre, Joe Germuska, Yvette d’Entremont (@thescibabe.bsky.social), luis antónio santos, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Florian Hanke 🍎, Stephanie A Kowalski, Brian Solis, Gayla Trail, Liv 😷, Liliane Ferrari ™, Thomas Power, Ward Plunet
The Guardian
How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket
20+ min · · The long read: It’s cheap, attractive and convenient, and we eat it every day – it’s difficult not to. But is ultra-processed food making us ill and driving the global obesity crisis? · Shared by 176, including John Nosta, Jane, Esther Schindler, Jochen Burkhard, Jennifer Hurst, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Futurity News
National Geographic
This Tiny Country Feeds the World
17+ min · · The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like. · Shared by 509, including Dominik Grolimund, Tom Connor, Alain, Matthias Lampe, Jacob Jarnvall, Sara Tian, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Werner Vogels, ἀποκαραδοκία, Thomas Power, Dez S. Papp, Nir Eyal, Charlie Oliver, Roland Wyss-Aerni 😷, Liliane Ferrari ™, Esther Schindler, @felixmichel@vis.social, Jane, Antonio Vieira Santos, Donneker
POLITICO
The great nutrient collapse
Summary · 15+ min · · Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are not only causing global warming, they are actively harming the Earth’s food supply by depleting the nutrients in plants. Politico Pro agriculture reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich digs deep to explain how plants are in danger of becoming junk food. The air’s elevated levels of carbon dioxide are depleting crops’ minerals and vitamins and increasing their carbohydrate content. getAbstract recommends this article to people concerned about the falling nutritional content of the food on their plates. · Shared by 448, including Alain, Andreia Costa 🇵🇹, Adam Tinworth, Dez S. Papp, Nils Hitze, Matthias Lampe, Howard Getson, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Stephen C Sanders, Katja Evertz, @mainec@fromm.social, Luzius Meisser, François-Oli Devaux, Dominik Grolimund, getAbstract, Donneker, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Jane, tjalve, Matthias Sala
Entrepreneur
How to Feed Your Brain to Combat Stress
3 min · · The right diet can fuel your success and happiness. · Shared by 321, including Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Katie Mazzocco, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jennifer Hurst, Real Marsha Wright®, Memen Isimo, Matthias Lampe, Beth Price Almeida
The New Yorker
Don’t Eat Before Reading This
11+ min · · Anthony Bourdain’s 1999 memoir about working in Manhattan restaurants. “Gastronomy is the science of pain. It was the unsavory side of professional cooking that attracted me to it in the first place.” · Shared by 357, including DonDahlmann, M.G. Siegler, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Dominik Grolimund, Stewart Alsop, Dr. A.S. Barwich, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Oliver Reichenstein, Chris Messina, Esther Schindler, Herbert Bay, Craig Mod, Richard Deitsch, Mathew Ingram, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Diego Paladino, Jane, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Ricky Yean
NPR
Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places
4 min · · Some Americans, fearing food shortages from COVID-19, have cleaned out supermarket shelves. Yet there's too much food in some places. Farmers are dumping milk and vegetables that they can't sell. · Shared by 21, including Brian Roemmele, Christopher Mims 🤌, Jennifer Hurst
Fast Company
These are the 76 climate solutions we need to scale up right now to have a chance
3 min · · Onshore wind power, utility-scale solar power, reduced food waste: These are just the first three of Project Drawdown’s plan to end the climate crisis with existing technologies. · Shared by 154, including Thomas Pleil, Tom Connor, Jennifer Hurst, Katja Evertz, Jansnet, Matthias Lampe
Fast Company
The untold origins of Apple’s groundbreaking design
6 min · · It all goes back to a food processor. · Shared by 111, including 瑞拿頭, Jennifer Hurst, Rifki Caesar Novaldin, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Johannes Dornisch
The New York Times
‘There Is Plenty of Food in the Country’
7 min · · Americans have been alarmed by empty grocery shelves, but while food suppliers and retailers say they are struggling with surging demand, they insist the supply chain remains strong. · Shared by 65, including zeynep tufekci, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Jennifer Hurst, Jeff Nolan 🇺🇸🚀, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, John Nosta, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Tiffany Shlain, Charlie Shrem, ExApologist
Travel + Leisure
Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch
3 min · · Going into a self-quarantine can have many complex issues and complications beyond having enough food and supplies for two weeks. In terms of entertainment, it… · Shared by 672, including Peter Smith, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, John Nosta, Jennifer Ouellette, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Guggenheim Museum, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Elinor Stutz, 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙯 💡, Artnome, Dr Jim Walsh, What's Trending, Massimo Pigliucci, AIGA, PTC, Thomas Power, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Brooks Rainwater
Eater
The Best Cookbooks of Spring 2020
20+ min · · Dive into recipes from Melissa Clark, Nancy Silverton, Dominique Ansel, and more · Shared by 22, including Jennifer Hurst
@colossal@mastodon.art
Japanese Chef Has Filled Notebooks with Delectable Illustrations of All of His Meals for 32 Years
2 min · · Some meals leave an impression—you might remember the cherry pie your grandma always made or a multi-course dinner consisting of toast and caviar, a mound of shaved truffle topping pasta, and wagyu… · Shared by 48, including Jennifer Ouellette, Stephanie A Kowalski, Jennifer Hurst, Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon (see below)
The Guardian
Is factory farming to blame for coronavirus?
8 min · · Scientists are tracing the path of Sars-CoV-2 from a wild animal host – but we also need to look at the part played in the outbreak by industrial food production · Shared by 67, including Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Thomas Power, Jennifer Hurst, Elrond Burrell (he/him)
Scientific American
One Root Cause of Pandemics Few People Think About
3 min · · It’s our seemingly insatiable desire to eat meat · Shared by 77, including jorge-ferrer, Pixel, Jennifer Hurst, David Pearce, Simon C