Food News Round Up: Trucks, Deserts, and Porn
by Emily Contois
On any other blog, it might be difficult to draw connections between trucks, deserts, and pornography, but not here where food is the common thread. While food trucks are often in the news as they sweep the culinary landscape, this week’s Food News Round Up includes articles that look at the food trend both logistically and critically. Recent studies questioning the link between food deserts and obesity incited much debate and a selection are included here. And the popular viral video “Eat It, Don’t Tweet It” has elicited responses regarding the state of food porn, some of which were already discussed in the BU Gastronomy Facebook group. So whichever whets your appetite, dig in and eat up.
Food Trucks
- NPR podcast: How to make it in the food truck business
- Plus the food truck infographic that explains it all
- Working on a food truck is the most rewarding job this engineer has had
- Food trucks are the new cure for male rom-com heartbreak
- Burger King to roll out NY food carts offering free samples of new menu items
Food Deserts
- NY Times: Studies question the pairing of food deserts and obesity
- NY Times Blog Response: Time to revisit food deserts
- Washington Post: Do food deserts matter? Do they even exist?
- NY Daily News: The food desert myth
- Chicago Magazine: Food deserts and the home economics revival
Food Porn
- NPR poll asks: Are your friends bombarding you with food porn?
- NPR poll verdict: Keep the food porn photos coming
- Blogger writes why food porn is important to her health
- Is realism the next stage for food porn?
Emily is a current gastronomy student and graduate assistant, editing the Gastronomy at BU blog, January-August, 2012. Check out her research in food studies, nutrition, and public health on her blog, emilycontois.com.