Low end, or high, apparently the food offerings at the Games in London disappoint.
"...the more high end offerings were failing to impress customers. "I've never seen a carpaccio like it," said Chris Dixon, 62, a solicitor who had joined his son Luke for lunch after watching a the Belgium v Nether…
Blog posts : "Agriculture"
Olympian Food? Not So Fine
'Thals Ate Veggies, Too
"Neanderthals have long been viewed as meat-eaters. The vision of them as inflexible carnivores has even been used to suggest that they went extinct around 25,000 years ago as a result of food scarcity, whereas omnivorous humans were able to survive. But evidence is mounting that plants were importa…
Pizza Brain (?)! A Pizza Museum for Philly
The guy with the "world's largest pizza memorabilia collection," is opening a museum cum pizza joint. And why not?
We who conceived and developed The Potato Museum, back in 1975, and have been urging food museums of all kinds ever since, are delighted. 
It's sugar lined, it's kind of a cookie, and you can drink a coffee from it. A Olympian Food Kudos
"...an official on the women’s basketball team from Angola accosted (London 2012 Chairman) Lord (Sebastian) Coe – to hail the food served up to athletes.
“I had never met them before, but they came up and hugged me and said ‘for the first time we have got African food, proper African food’. Th…
"It's Heartbreaking..."
"For the past six-plus years, Vacaville’s Soul Food Farm has provided chicken and eggs to the Bay Area. You may have eaten Soul Food Farm products at restaurants like Chez Panisse, Coi, Quince or Oliveto; or perhaps purchased them at places like Bi-Rite, Prather, Marina Meats and Avedano’s.
L…
Finally, a Gelato Museum!
Coming in September, a museum dedicated to the Italian icy treat, gelato.
"The Carpigiani Gelato Museum is a center of cultural excellence dedicated to the understanding and study of the history, culture, and technology of gelato and the expertise of the innovators who drove its evolution over the …
The FOOD Museum, on Chef John Folse's Bastille Day Radio Show
Not live, but not dead either...Meredith and Tom Hughes, that's us, are part of a Louisiana radio feature with Chef John Folse, Stirrin' It Up, broadcast officially July 14, and available online anytime. Our book, Gastronomie! Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France, published by Bunker Hill, is t…
Help Kickstart Nebraska Artisanal Cheesemaker
The people at Shadowbrook Farm, Lincoln, Nebraska, have 11 days to go in order to snag a Kickstarter funding grant, for cheesemaking. Take a look!
Damn! There is No Magic Diet, People
From a NYTimes interview with Dr. Jules Hirsch, who has researched obesity for 60 years....
"What would you tell someone who wanted to lose weight?
I would have them eat a lower-calorie diet. They should eat whatever they normally eat, but eat less. You must carefully measure this. Eat as little…
Thanks, Richard Hellman's Wife
"In 1905, two years after arriving in the United States, German immigrant Richard Hellmann opened up a delicatessen in New York City. His wife's delectable recipe for mayonnaise was featured in salads and sold in the deli, and the condiment quickly became so popular that Hellmann began selling it in…
Food Art via foodmuseum.com
Check it out---changed at whim on the homepage, collated and featured in the Gallery here.
Olympian-Sized McD's in London
The largest of its outlets is opening in London for the summer games, a 32,000+square feet of fast food, in a building constructed from recycled materials.McD's! Under attack as always for its role in making the planet's inhabitants fat, and fatter, the company is planning to pass out "activity toys…
Foodie Back from Hols...
Not that I didn't miss you all, natch, but one has to take a break once in a while. And anyway, we were hot on the trail of assorted foodish stories, to be posted soon at foodmuseum.com.
Food historic sites in abundance up next.
Disney To Promote Healthy Foods to Kids?
" In a bold move, the Walt Disney Company is announcing that it will only advertise healthier foods to children on its TV channels, radio station and website. Disney is the first major media company to take such a stand."
Via MNN
The Colonel Speaks/Spoke on FB
The chicken Colonel's new/old book is almost out.
"The work, titled "Colonel Harland Sanders: The Autobiography of the Original Celebrity Chef," will be made available not in stores, but on Facebook for free download beginning June 4. The page already includes the first chapter, an introduction and…
BloomB To Block Big Sugary Drinks
"New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity."
Via NYTimes
"McDonald's Corp investors soundly rejected a