Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Did you out some Smucker’s Strawberry Jelly on your toast this morning? How about a Nutra Grain Strawberry Cereal Bar or a Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry treat for those of you on the run? If so, then you may have gotten your daily dose of the element mercury.
People have been saying for years that products with high fructose corn syrup were bad, however most didn’t know why. Now there have been some studies released showing that some products with high fructose corn syrup contain mercury.
It turns out that many foods sweetened with HFCS contain mercury, left as a residue in the production of caustic soda, a key ingredient in HFCS. And worst of all, the FDA and the industry have known about this potential toxin and has continued serving it up since at least 2005.
Food Network to Launch Second Latino-themed Show
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Two years ago The Food Network decided to try its luck with actually putting Latino people on the air to cook Latino cuisines, with Simply Delicioso being the first show on the network to be hosted by a Latina. It must have gone well, since none other than Food Network’s sacred cow, Rachael EVOO Ray has decided to put her money where Latino food is and produce a Latino-themed cooking show for the network:
Ray is producing a new show for the network starring actress and cookbook author Daisy Martinez. The weekly “Viva Daisy!” premiered Saturday for a six-week run. The show is the network’s second focused on Latino foods, joining Ingrid Hoffman’s “Simply Delicioso.”Martinez previously hosted public television’s Hispanic foods-focused “Daisy Cooks.” The new show will be the first from Ray’s production company, Watch Entertainment, that doesn’t feature Ray.
The collaboration began after Ray and Martinez bonded while participating in a panel discussion together. Ray says she knew immediately she wanted to give Martinez a bigger platform from which to talk about Latino foods.
You can get a taste of Daisy on the video above.
What do you think? Will a Latina face make you watch more Food Network?
Via / News Sentinel
That’s One Ugly Papa
7 Dec 2008
I was thinking of making papas for dinner pero looking at the picture above of a prize winning potato from Lebanon, I’m rethinking my cooking plans.
Via / The Angry Arab News Service
Food Stamp Use Reaches Record Numbers
11:05 am By Maegan La Mala · economy|Food|Money · Comments Off
26 Nov 2008
Once upon a time when I was a teen, food stamps were actually like stamps, well actually more like coupons on Monopoly money colored paper and I remember being ashamed when my then boyfriend’s mom sent me to the corner bodega to buy something with them. While sadly the stigma still exists with using food stamp benefits, even if they no are accessed via an atm like card but for more and more familias, food stamps are a need not a want if they want to keep their family fed.
“We soon will have the most food stamps recipients in the history of our country,” said Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, a D.C.-based anti-hunger policy organization. “If the economic forecasts come true, we’re likely to see the most hunger that we’ve seen since the 1981 recession and maybe since the 1960s, when these programs were established.”
The Agriculture Department is set to release the new numbers as early as this week. Agency officials declined to confirm the figures but outlined them in a briefing last month for advocates and administrators of state food stamp programs. Breaking the symbolically important 30 million mark comes on the heels of government data showing that 11.9 million people went hungry in the United States at some point last year. That included nearly 700,000 children, up more than 50 percent from the year before.
Via / The Washington Post
Bush Drinks Some Peruvian Cultura
26 Nov 2008
Apparently dressing like a Peruvian isn’t enough for President Bush. While at the APEC Summit in Lima, Bush was spotted drinking in some local culture as well, in the form of a Pisco Sour.
Wait, isn’t Bush supposed to be a recovering alcoholic or something? Last time I had a Pisco Sour (a lo Chileno – go ahead Peruanos and Chilenos- argue about it) it had alcohol and Pisco is no joke.
I’m not as convinced as the HufPo:
Of course, the president often drinks non-alcoholic beer; he could easily be drinking a non-alcoholic Pisco Sour in this shot.
What the hell is a Pisco Sour without the Pisco?!
Via / The Huffington Post
FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Animals
19 Sep 2008
In an extraordinarily gross move, the FDA has given permission to scientist to go full force on whatever disgusting experiments they want to conduct on animals, all, supposedly for the benefit of the consumer:
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday opened the way for genetically engineered salmon, cows and other animals to move from the laboratory to the marketplace, unveiling an approval process that would treat the modified creatures like drugs.
The guidelines make explicit the regulatory hoops that companies would have to jump through to sell products from modified animals. “It’s about time the federal government has acknowledged that these animals are on [the] doorstep and need to be regulated to ensure their safety,” said Greg Jaffe, director of the project on biotechnology at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.
Many experts, however, fear that the proposed regulations do not go far enough. In particular, they argue that the approval process would be highly secretive to protect the commercial interests of the companies involved. They also say the new rules do not place sufficient weight on the environmental effect of what many consider to be “Frankenstein” animals.
I am not even close to a religious person. I do, however, believe that Mother Nature is the only scientist that has ever known what the hell she was doing. Thus, outside of the fact that I find genetically modifying animals to be morally wrong because how they treat the lives of animals–I also find GM to be ethically wrong because they do nothing at all to improve the lives of animals or humans. And shouldn’t every scientists’ ethical responsibility to society be to improve society’s quality of living rather than destroy it?
Miss Universe to Appear in an Episode of Top Chef (and she will be clothed)
9:30 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Food|New York City|TV|Venezuela · 4 Comments
7 Aug 2008
Last night, An super secret source was inside the taping for an episode of next season’s Top Chef. The episode of the hit Bravo show was filmed on 27th street on the East Side and involved the contestants cooking food for an AIDS organization. The winner was chosen by the people at the dinner (about 300) placing red ribbons on the dish they liked best.
Also present at the taping was Miss Universe, Venezolana Dayana Mendoza. She was fully clothed, unlike the recent fotos of her that have surfaced. My source said that Mendoza is tall, slim, and with booty to spare.
Makes sense that she was at this AIDS charity themed Top Chef challenge, as she is the latest madrina for the Latino Commission on AIDS.
By the way the president of Miss Universe, Paula M. Shugart, said that Mendoza is not in danger of losing her crown over the recently revealed nekkid pics.
Via / Hispanic Tips, Remolacha
Vegan de Guadalupe?
30 Jul 2008On the really great blog Vegans of Color, they recently posted about a fabulous new zine recipe book targeted to Chican@s on the border and all those who love border food. Chocked full of awesome vegan alternatives to traditional border meals.
Because I’ve heard with frequency people comment on how expensive its to make vegan mexican food. That’s bull! So I wanted to prove people wrong but also make a zine that consists of easy mexican food recipes, that is great for vegan beginners, and bilingual because i’m a border child with half her heart in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley. So all the recipes are in english and spanish. It has great cover design by my bff danae; who incidentally introduced me to veganism while attending school in Monterrey, Mexico.
The zine sports a particularly beautiful cover:
Check out etsy for how to buy!
L.A. Moves to Ban Fast Food from Poor Neighborhoods
1:55 pm By Maegan La Mala · Food|Health|Los Angeles|society · 3 Comments
30 Jul 2008
Who woulda thunk it: L.A. is setting a health standard that is admirable — the city is trying to do something about an obesity crisis affecting one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. The idea is great, but I am skeptical it will work.
The local city council is banning fast food outlets in the less than privileged neighborhood of South L.A.:
A law that would bar fast-food restaurants from opening in South Los Angeles for at least a year sailed through the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday.The council approved the fast-food moratorium unanimously, despite complaints from representatives of McDonald’s, Carl’s Jr. and other companies, who said they were being unfairly targeted.
Councilwoman Jan Perry, who has pushed for a moratorium for six years, said the initiative would give the city time to craft measures to lure sit-down restaurants serving healthier food to a part of the city that desperately wants more of them.
“I believe this is a victory for the people of South and southeast Los Angeles, for them to have greater food options,” she said.
Urban Jibaro: Blogging on an empty stomach….
27 Jul 2008
Ok…I admit I am very hungry right now and I am so upset that my friend Ana sold the bodega around my house where I get my empanadas. The new owners are from El Salvador and only make pupusas now (but I already got a spot to get those, shout out to Cielito Lindo in Freeport).
So as I go thru withdrawals (shaking and sweating…lol) I call her up to ask her if she will come over and make me some…She tells me that I need to learn how to make them myself so I start looking for “How To Videos” and I found a Latina named Madeline Merced who takes us through step by step how to feed my addiction to empanadas. Madeline or the “How To Girl” as she as known, has a great site and I would tell you more about it but I don’t have time right now…I really need to get in the kitchen and get my empanada making on…Buen Provecho!!!!
Check Madeline Merced out at http://www.howtogirl.com/
ANA…. UGGGGH I DONT LIKE YOU RIGHT NOW!!!
As I am,
The Urban Jibaro aka El Empanadero
Hola!
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