Anthony Bourdain:

One of the great wonders of the New World Order is how you can find an internet connection, a cell phone signal, just about anywhere. At a tiny bed and breakfast in a far flung 16th century village in Yunnan Province, high speed wireless that beats what I’ve got in my apartment in New York City. At home, my cell phone kicks out ( Read more... )

Attack of the killer tomatoes?  Apparently not:

A growing number of health officials fear that investigators made a terrible mistake in blaming tomatoes for the sickening of more than 800 Americans, and they increasingly suspect jalapeno peppers, cilantro or some other food commonly found in Mexican restaurants, health officials involved in the ( Read more... )

Maybe the prospect of global food shortages doesn't spell catastrophe for everyone:

As prices for bread and rice soar, dictators are tottering.

Oddly, one of them is [Hugo] Chávez, who lost a constitutional referendum in December partly because of the combination of soaring food prices and shortages he has inflicted on Venezuela. Another is ( Read more... )

In the sprawling slum of Haiti’s Cité Soleil, Placide Simone, 29, offered one of her five offspring to a stranger. “Take one,” she said, cradling a listless baby and motioning toward four rail-thin toddlers, none of whom had eaten that day. “You pick. Just feed them.”

More here.  This is in our hemisphere, mind you.  Stop pretending this shit can ( Read more... )

A food fight of an entirely different sort.  Each type of food represents a specific country (note what the croissants do; if you're still having trouble following, look at this).  Pay special attention about 3:40 in.  Brilliant and more than a little disturbing.

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(HT: Marc Andreessen)

Haiti's rising food prices drive poor to eat mud

Just wait until they convert the rest of their farms to raise corn.  Not for food, of course, but to cash in on the ethanol boom.  Why should they feed people?  They can just eat mud!

The 20 Worst Foods in AmericaSeriously, how the hell do you create a "healthy" turkey burger with 1,145 calories and 71g of fat ( Read more... )

Glad to see that the House of Lords is focusing on the most pressing issues facing its nation: the thickness of sandwich bread.  Vector: Hit & Run.

Marc Andreessen checks in on new developments in artificial intelligence, including Microsoft's erstwhile "Santa-bot":

The idea was that you would add "northpole@live.com" to your kid's MSN Messenger ( Read more... )

On a lighter note, the Japanese have some really fucked-up ideas about what makes a good hamburger:

Mos has changed their main Burger. Hmm new mos has rich tomato meat sauce, of course it can't be bad taste, but it's not my type. I don't like wet Burger, I think Japanese Burger tend to be too soft, it will came from rich mayo sauce and onion ( Read more... )