Should your character (or, for that matter, you) have business in the sort of Outback that doesn't sell bloomin' onions, knowledge like this might come in handy: pics.livejournal.com/dr_hermes/pic/003hc8ts/

(Courtesy of dr_hermes , whose blog is a fascinating overstuffed junk-drawer of pop-cultural and historical esoterica;  here's a sampling of some other ( Read more... )

Demonstrating the reassuring constancy of human nature, the New York Times food blog brings us this account of a furious controversy that erupted in their pages in the winter of 1872: how ought scrapple to be prepared--if at all? A century before the advent of the Internet, all the elements of a good roaring wankapalooza are in place, including ( Read more... )

I'm figuring that this link is at least tangentially on-topic for this comm, and might be of potential use for theme parties and the like:   http://community.livejournal.com/fan_foods/

So far, subjects have included butterbeer from Harry Potter, fireflakes from Avatar, and the tea cookies over which Utena and Anthy joke about poisoning each other.

( ( Read more... )

Sort of to do with food. I thought that it could be useful for fantasy or sci fi novels.
A spa has started using 'doctor fish' to eat the dead skin off your feet- much better than the razors apparently, and much more hygienic and also fun. They have no teeth, and come from a place with not much food around so they learnt to suck food from where they ( Read more... )

Stumbled on this, thought I'd share
(mostly serious) food history blog

A little hard to navigate, but it could be useful to someone. :)

I just found an interesting blog entry.

Some excerpts

This week, I'm more interested in plant hybrids. For world-building in a hurry --not that I recommend taking a short cut, but sometimes one has to-- a few hours in the grocery aisles can be quite inspiring. After all, if you are unexpectedly space-shipwrecked and marooned on an alien world, you're ( Read more... )

Here is a list of books that a library compiled, that involves food as a theme. :)

Or maybe you want to know if your characters would be pickling their vegetables. Or if the children would beg for toffee.

The Food Timeline might be useful ( Read more... )

Just dug out an old copy of the "New Scientist" for this site - you better be proud of me :)

This article gives details of how the food replicators on Star Trek: The Next Generation work (or don't work, as the case may be) , and it's written a a little technically, but the information is solid.

Now we don't have to have Picard going without his Earl ( Read more... )