Spring Roll Dipping Sauce https://thewoksoflife.com/spring-roll-dipping-sauce/ For new readers an electronic sticky note is a reminder and pointer to recipes from other websites that one day I might try. So when the bots come back (see The Recipes in This Blog Are Being Stolen by AI) they’ll be stealing someone else’s copyrighted material.
I know it’s AI because my recipes can’t be this good!
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat. In that book, I review research on the “funding effect,” the strong correlations between who pays for food and nutrition research and its outcome. Industry-funded research tends to produce results favorable to the funder’s interests (otherwise it wouldn’t be funded). But recipients of […]
Source: Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy – https://wolfstreet.com/2025/10/24/food-inflation-the-price-spikes-of-beef-coffee-eggs-and-dairy/ I decided I would try to collect data online from the largest supermarkets in the country, and I pretty soon realized that the numbers I was getting were two or three times higher than the official numbers for inflation. Alberto Cavallo, […]
Over the study period, 1,131 cases of type 2 diabetes were identified among the 108,723 participants. Compared with people who consumed the lowest levels of preservatives, those with higher intake showed a markedly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Overall preservative consumption was linked to a 47% higher risk. Non-antioxidant preservatives were associated with […]
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Wow, I hadn’t thought about all of this! What do you think this will mean for us at the grocery store?
Think about the initial wave of panic buying toilet paper. We will continue to see sporadic shortages of various foods in the years to come. Retail prices will go up due to pure supply and demand. Our days of an abundant selection will become memories. One of the largest poultry operations on the East Coast is killing 2,000,000 birds because they don’t have enough people to process the birds.
Do you think they’ll be able to re-open the meat and chicken processing plants and have the workers social distance? On 60 minutes last Sunday they showed the GM and Ford plants making ventilators and how they had changed the assembly line to have the workers 6 feet apart. And in fact each worker was separated by a plate of plexiglass. Plus, every worker wore a Bluetooth wristband that would beep if workers got closer than 6 feet apart. And it also track them electronically, so if any of the workers became infected they would have a record of all the contacts