Cereal Killer on The Loose

This sounds like real trouble

“The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world’s wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.”
A ‘time bomb’ for world wheat crop – Los Angeles Times
The best sauce in the world [...]

Depression Food is not so Depressing

I’m posting this for those who have never known real hunger. On it’s face it appears to be a doleful monologue about how to make do with pedestrian ingredients when you are so poor that eating money might seem cheaper than exchanging it for food. However, having spent more than a decade of my childhood [...]

Depression Food is not so Depressing

I’m posting this for those who have never known real hunger. On it’s face it appears to be a doleful monologue about how to make do with pedestrian ingredients when you are so poor that eating money might seem cheaper than exchanging it for food. However, having spent more than a decade of my childhood [...]

UN says eat less meat to curb global warming

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends that we eat less meat because
“of the huge greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems – including habitat destruction – associated with rearing cattle and other animals.”
He goes on to say that it’s easier to change eating habits than it is [...]

UN says eat less meat to curb global warming

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends that we eat less meat because
“of the huge greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems – including habitat destruction – associated with rearing cattle and other animals.”
He goes on to say that it’s easier to change eating habits than it is [...]

Bug-Eating Still Makes Me Buggy

I was in 5th grade the first time I became aware that people ate bugs for reasons other than wanting to make someone else vomit. It was the beginning of the school year and our social studies class was doing one of those “What I did over the summer vacation” time-wasting exercises. While I was [...]

Bug-Eating Still Makes Me Buggy

I was in 5th grade the first time I became aware that people ate bugs for reasons other than wanting to make someone else vomit. It was the beginning of the school year and our social studies class was doing one of those “What I did over the summer vacation” time-wasting exercises. While I was [...]

Fish Hooks Man With Worm

By now many of you have seen this creepy story about the man who alleges that he was infected with tapeworm after having eaten allegedly undercooked salmon. Those of us who love raw and rare fish recoil from the idea that something we love, crave even, could possibly be a harbinger of something [...]

Fish Hooks Man With Worm

By now many of you have seen this creepy story about the man who alleges that he was infected with tapeworm after having eaten allegedly undercooked salmon. Those of us who love raw and rare fish recoil from the idea that something we love, crave even, could possibly be a harbinger of something [...]

Hunger Art

If A Hunger Artist has been quiet it’s because I’ve been cooling my heels in London and have, until now, been too busy trying to make sense of this place to post.
Today I ran across a painting by Max Beckman at the Tate Modern (which is housed in an old power station but could [...]