Jan 22 2010

Food for thought: How to make vegan marshmallows

vegan marshmallows

I don’t love Marshmallows enough to ever make this amount of work worthwhile, but if you’re Vegan (or Kosher) and have a serious need for s’mores, check out this method featured on Instructables. [via craftzine]

For a simply vegetarian (and simply simpler) method, Vegetarian Times offers up this recipe.


Oct 12 2009

Sampler: what’s new in the world of food

Congrats to one of my culinary heroes — Alton Brown celebrates 10 years on Good Eats in a new book:  Good Eats: The Early Years. NPR’s Weekend Edition has the scoop here.

Cows have been blamed for producing large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas. Can researchers at the University of Missouri help cut cattle emissions while cutting costs for farmers? The story is picked up by Science Daily.

Cows by docman on Flickr

Cows by docman on Flickr

According to Fooducate, the chocolaty spread nutella is now being marketed as having health benefits, but what can that mean for a food whose first ingredient is sugar?

On a recent TED talk, architect Carolyn Steel answers the question, how do you feed a city? [via Freakonomics]

In his New York Times Magazine article, “Against Meat,” Jonathan Safran Foer discusses vegetarianism from a family-centered perspective.