Category: Food News

Food News Round Up: Big Food and a Big Foodie

As we bask (and sweat) in the heat of July, this edition of Food News Round Up focuses on two big things — ‘big food’ as discussed by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine and the passing of a noted foodie, Nora Ephron  — as well as a smattering of other food news. Make […]

Food News Round Up: Soda Size Squabbles and Other Tidbits

Everyone and their mother has an opinion on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to limit restaurant soft-drink servings to 16 ounces. Will it help create a healthier food environment?  Will it help citizens to make healthier choices?  Will it limit choice?  Will it eradicate freedom as we know it? Here are a selection […]

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 […]

Food News Round Up: How to Procrastinate Like a Food Studies Student

by Emily Contois If you’re like me, you’re currently working (and perhaps panicking a little) to craft compelling theses for your final term papers. This time in the semester tends to also coincide with more time than usual spent on Facebook and Twitter, as we procrastinate and somehow buy into the admittedly insane premise that […]

Food News Round Up: Wrangling Action

by Emily Contois Welcome, gastronomes and cowboys alike, to this action-oriented (and alluringly alliterative) edition of Food News Round Up. Part of the news process is indeed passive — the pleasant and oft solitary experience of soaking up the news via paper or screen. But what is so key with food, is the desire to […]