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World Food Day

(Updated on 05/09/2011)


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Information : Good food Bad food

A

- A-Z of Food Safety
- Afternoon meal (France and England)
- American food
- Average Daily Food Intake of Homer Simpson, Seinfeld Cast and Garfield
B

- Biofuels
- British Food
- British Food and Drink
- British Pubs and Drinks
- Burmese children 'facing death'

C

- Cadbury adverts
- Cakeland
- Candy
- Causes of World Hunger
- Chocolate
- Christmas Pudding
- Coca-Cola: facts, figures and myths
- Coca Cola recipe 'discovered'
- Coke's secret formula gets closer to the public
- Conversion Table for Cooking
- Conversions
- Cooking Calculator
- Cool Food
- Cost of food
- Cost of food : Facts and figures
- Cost of food : Global roundup

D

- Diet cycle (The vicious -)
- Dieting
- Diets - Safe ?

E
 - Eating in England
F

- Families' shopping list
- Fast Food
- Fast food Beijing style
- Food and Literature
- Food by state (US)
- Food for Fuel
- Food for troops in Afghanistan
- Food Guide Pyramid
- Food Pyramid
- Food security
- Food Timeline
- Four Simple Steps to Fight BAC

G

- Geophagy
- Global Food Crisis
- Global hunger worsening
- Great British Breakfast

H

- Healthy living
- High fat level found in takeaways
- Hot Dogs (History and Legend) and a lesson plan
- How Homer and Co can help us lead healthier lives (by not copying them)
I

- Ice-cream parlour
- Ices and Ice Cream (History, Legends, & Myths of -)
- Icons, Symbols and Institutions (UK)
- Irish pork contamination

J

- Junk food
- Junk food advertising ban
- Junk food banned in school meals
- Junk food smugglers

L

- Ludlow revolts against ice creams vans
M

- Marmite takes Manhattan
- Meals
- Meaning of Food
- More than 1.02 billion hungry people
N

- New crops in Britain (climate change)
- Nutrition and the Food Pyramid
- Nutritious habits of the planet's healthiest countries

O

- Obesity
P

- Parents 'misled' by food nutrition labels
- Phelps' unusual diet
- 'Pick the right veg' for health
- Polite social behaviour in the UK
- Popcorn and soda equal to three quarter pounders
Q
 - Quakers and Cadbury
S

- Saints
- School lunches around the world
- Smart food, junk food
- Spotlight (UK)
- Survivalists snack stop
- Sweet potatoes
T

- Thai diners show appetite for rat
- The great British cuppa
- Tiki's Guide to Food
- Toddler trapped in lolly machine
- Top 10 Healing Foods Of The Decade
- Tracing our food
U

- 'Ugly' food back on sale in EU
- UK and US 'keenest on fast food'
- UK's national vegetable -
- US to UK Cooking Conversions, Food Names

W

- Waste of food (UK)
- We feed the world
- Welsh Whisky Spirit (Rebirth)
- What's wrong with McDonald's
- What she eats in one day
- What the world eats (in pictures)
- World Chocolate Day
- World Food Day
- World hunger
- World Hunger Crisis (Spiraling prices create - )
- World's strangest delicacies

 

  • Coke's secret formula gets closer to the public - December 8, 2011
    "In honor of the company's 125th anniversary, the formula was moved to a new home in the World of Coca-Cola ... in Atlanta where a new exhibit titled The Vault of the Secret Formula will be on display beginning Thursday..."
    + a video
    (money.cnn.com)

 

  • OBESITY :



    • De jeunes Américains obèses à Reedley en Californie le 19 octobre 2009  (20minutes.fr)

    • Obesity - Published August 26, 2011
      "This four-part Series critically examines what we know about the global obesity pandemic: its drivers, its economic and health burden,
      the physiology behind weight control and maintenance, and what science tells us about the kind of actions that are needed to change our obesogenic environment and reverse the current tsunami of risk factors for chronic diseases in future generations..."
      (thelancet.com)

     

 

 

  • Obesity 'threatens US army recruitment'
    "Obesity disqualified more potential recruits for military service than any other medical factor...
    "We must act, as we did after World War II, to ensure that our children can one day defend our country, if need be."
    (news.smh.com.au)

  • To Grill or Not to Grill: Commemorating a Saint’s Martyrdom
    - St. Lawrence = the patron saint of cooks
    "Lawrence, a deacon in Rome during the third century, met his martyrdom being roasted alive on a gridiron...
    - St. Macarius of Egypt (feast day January 2) is the patron saint of cooks, confectioners and pastry chefs...
    - St. Honoré (feast day May 16) is the patron saint of bakers...
    - St. Arnold (July 8 ) is the patron saint of brewers...
    - St. Martha (feast day July 29) is the patron saint of cooks and housekeepers."
    (blogs.smithsonianmag.com)

 

  • Climate change brings tea and apricots to Britain
    "British farmers are experimenting with crops such as olives and nectarines which have traditionally been imported from southern Europe
    while the first British tea plantation has opened with a changing climate set to transform the nation's countryside..."
    (reuters.com)

Otter farm - The Climate Change Farm
"Otter Farm is home to orchards of pecans, quince, almonds, szechuan pepper, apricots and a vineyard.
It is owned and run by me, Mark Diacono. The farm is certified organic and low carbon."
(otterfarm.co.uk)

Tregothnan
"The Estate, in Kent and Cornwall, is internationally known for producing the only tea grown in England.
A diversity of lands allows us to produce English tea, sustainable coppiced charcoal, Manuka honey and Kea plum jam...
We have to thank the unique micro-climate that benefits the South-West corner of England for the success of our tea plantation."
See : A brief history of tea
(tregothnan.co.uk)

 

  • What is the UK's national vegetable ?
    "Leeks are Welsh. Potatoes are associated with Ireland. And overcooked cabbage, cauliflower and sprouts are classic school dinner fare.
    Asparagus is a strong contender for an English vegetable, coming into season on St George's Day...
    Day's own pick for a national vegetable? The garden pea."
    (BBC)

 

  • COCA COLA :


    • Coca-Cola: facts, figures and myths
      "Everything you ever needed to know about Britain's biggest-selling brand."
      (telegraph.co.uk)




    • Coca-Cola says found recipe isn't the real thing -  2/15/2011 (msnbc.msn.com)
      "The exact formula of Coca-Cola's natural flavorings (but not its other ingredients which are listed on the side of the bottle or can) is a trade secret. The original copy of the formula is held in SunTrust Bank's main vault in Atlanta." (Wikipedia)

    • Coca Cola recipe 'discovered'
      "A website claims to have uncovered Coca-Cola's top secret recipe."
      See The 'secret recipe'.
      (telegraph.co.uk)

    • The recipe in Everett Beal's Recipe Book (1979) and Pemberton's Notebook (1992) - (thisamericanlife.org)

    • Is it true Coca-Cola once contained cocaine? (straightdope.com)
      "There is a rumor that cocaine was once an ingredient in the cola.
      This turns out to have been true, but cocaine was removed in the early years in the 20th century.
      Coca Cola now uses "spent" coca leaves to extract its coca fluid extract that does not contain the active ingredient that makes people high."       (associatedcontent.com)
      "When the beverage debuted in Atlanta-area pharmacies owned by friends of Pemberton, marketers pronounced it "a shot in the arm"-- while Pemberton himself hailed it as a cure for cure pain, impotence and headaches."       (news.yahoo.com)

    • For His Son (1912) - a short film - Director:  D.W. Griffith
      "A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine...  
      Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope."
      (imdb.com)

    • The History of Coca Cola (inventors.about.com)



 

 

  • Food by state - a map with a representative dish to each state.
    (myfoodlooksfunny.files.wordpress.com)
    "I can’t argue with fried chicken for Kentucky, but I think of catfish or barbecue for Tennessee instead of tomatoes." 
    (Neatorama)

 

  • CANDY :

    • Sweet Starts
      "Some familiar candy brands have been in production for more than a century, while some others reach back even further.
      How did these sweet treats get their start? We’ve got their sugar-coated beginnings right here..."
      1. NECCO WAFERS
      2. SQUIRREL NUT CHEWS
      3. HERSHEY’S CHOCOLATE BAR
      4. TOBLERONE
      5. GOOGOO CLUSTERS
      6. MARY JANE
      7. CLARK BAR
      8. BABY RUTH
      9. MOUNDS
      10. MILKY WAY
      (neatorama.com)




    • BEST-SELLING CANDY BY COUNTRY (neatorama.com)

 

  • Sweet Potatoes Step Out From Under Marshmallows
    "To meet demand, American farmers are planting more, chain restaurants are rewriting menus and ConAgra this month opened a $155 million plant dedicated to processing frozen sweet potato products — the first of its kind in the world..."
    (nytimes.com)

 

  • How to make a perfect cuppa
    "Many people ask no more than that their tea be "wet and warm", but in the hunt for perfection in a tea cup, a scientist has created a formula for optimal temperature, infusion and imbibation.
    Oh, and when to put the milk in."
    Read GEORGE ORWELL'S TEA RULES.
    (BBC)

 

 

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    Americans for example

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • World’s Strangest Delicacies
    Hákarl (i.e. Rotten Shark) – Iceland
    Tacos de Chapulines (i.e. Grasshopper Tacos) – Mexico
    Gator Kebabs – South Louisiana
    Bird’s Nest Soup – China
    Kopi Luwak (i.e. Luwak Coffee) – Indonesia
    Fried Tarantula – Cambodia
    Seal Flipper Pie – Canada
    (highestfive.com)

 

  • How did Quakers conquer the British sweet shop?
    "Cadbury, which has been sold to US firm Kraft, is one of several great British firms founded by Quakers. But how did they gain such a stranglehold on the chocolate industry and why were they so successful in business?...
    The move into chocolate began with cocoa drinks in the 19th Century as a reaction against the perceived misery and deprivation caused by alcohol"
    (BBC)

 

 

  • We feed the world - A film by Erwin Wagenhofer - The trailer
    (we-feed-the-world.at)

We Feed the World
"is a 2005 documentary in which Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat and views modern industrial production of food in a critical light. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria.
The movie features an interview with Jean Ziegler."
(Wikipedia)

 

 

  • Parents 'misled' by food nutrition labels
    "Nine out of 10 mothers questioned in a British Heart Foundation (BHF) survey misunderstood the nutrition information on children's foods...
    Kellogg's Coco Pops cereal and milk bars are labelled as "a source of calcium, iron and six vitamins" and 63% of mothers in the survey thought they were healthy.
    The BHF said that for every 100g they were higher in saturated fat and sugar than the average chocolate cake."
    (BBC)

  • Popcorn and soda equal to three quarter pounders, study finds
    "A medium popcorn and soft drink at an American cinema is the caloric equivalent of three McDonald's quarter pounder hamburgers topped
    with a dozen scoops of butter, according to a new study...
    Popcorn served in US cinemas is dramatically different from the standard sweet or salty sorts served in British cinemas.
    The American cinemas surveyed used coconut oil to pop the corn, and then topped it with butter or margarine, contributing significantly to calorie and fat count. "
    (telegraph.co.uk)

 

 

  • Global hunger worsening, warns UN
    "More than one billion people - a sixth of the world's population - are undernourished... The report comes ahead of World Food Day on Friday."
    (BBC)

 

  • 'Ugly' fruit back on sale in EU + VIDEO
    "Curly cucumbers, crooked carrots and mottled mushrooms - odd-looking fruit and vegetables are making a comeback as 20-year-old EU rules are lifted."
    (BBC)

 

 

  • Irish pork contamination probed
    "Police in the Irish Republic have been called in to investigate how pigs in the country came to be contaminated with potentially harmful dioxins.
    The source is thought to have been feed tainted with oil from a Co Carlow firm which recycles food into pig meal... "
    (BBC News)

  • Food for fuel - The unusual diet behind Olympian Phelps' success (BBC)


 

 

 

  • GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS :

 

  • FOOD SECURITY :

    • Food security
      1 Food security in the United States 1.1 Community food security 1.2 Food insecurity
      2 Stunting and chronic nutritional deficiencies
      3 Global water crisis
      4 Land degradation
      5 Climate change       5.1 Agriculture 5.2 Children
      6 Wheat stem rust
      7 Infectious diseases
      8 Dictatorship and kleptocracy
      9 Economic approaches       9.1 Westernized view 9.2 Food justice 9.3 Food sovereignty
      10 World Food Summit
      11 Achieving food security       11.1 The agriculture-hunger-poverty nexus 11.2 Biotechnology for smallholders in the (sub)tropics
      12 Risks to food security
      12.1 Fossil fuel dependence
      12.2 Genetic erosion in agricultural and livestock biodiversity
      12.3 Threats from conventional hybridization for higher yield, genetic engineering and the resulting loss of biodiversity
      12.4 Price setting...
      (Wikipedia)

     

    • Food Security - A Guide
      "The recent doubling of world food prices has transformed food insecurity from a difficult development problem into an emergency..."
      Climate Change - Biofuels - The Right to Food - Causes of Food Insecurity - The Search for Solutions - World Food Prices - Food Aid -
      Biotechnology and GM Crops       -
      Hunger : Countries at Risk
      (uk.oneworld.net)

     

  • COST OF FOOD :

 

 

  • Homes 'waste 3.3m tonnes of food'
    "Homes across Britain are wasting a total of 3.3m tonnes of food a year, a report is expected to reveal...
    Most of the waste food goes into landfill sites, where it breaks down and causes greenhouse gases. "
    (BBC)

 

  • Burmese children 'facing death' (18 May 2008)
    "Thousands of Burmese children will die of starvation within weeks unless urgent aid is delivered, a UK charity warns."
    (BBC)

 

 

 

 

  • DIETING :

     

    • The vicious diet cycle - Enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.

 

 

  • GEOPHAGY :

    • Geophagy - Eating Dirt
      "A Traditional Practice Which Provides Nutrients to the Body.
      People around the world eat clay, dirt or other pieces of the lithosphere for a variety of reasons..."
      (geography.about.com)

      Clay Eating
      (newgeorgiaencyclopedia.net)

      Geophagy
      It "is the practice of eating earthy or soil-like substances such as clay, and chalk, in order to obtain essential nutrients such as sulfur and phosphorus from the soil. It is closely related to pica, a classified eating disorder in the DSM-IV characterized by abnormal cravings for nonfood items..."
      (Wikipedia)

     

  • JUNK FOOD :
    • Junk food banned in school meals (BBC)
      "School dinners in England will be free from chocolate, crisps, fizzy drinks
      and "low-quality" meat from the autumn, the government has announced."


    • The junk food smugglers (BBC)
      "The drive to promote healthy eating in schools is giving rise to an unexpected black market in junk food
      among children who are refusing to change their eating habits."

     

    • New Junk Food Advertising Ban Begins
      "Total ban on adverts for unhealthy food and drink products around TV programmes for under-16s has come into force...
      The new curbs affect commercials for food and drink products high in fat, salt and sugar."
      (news.sky.com/skynews)



    • Smart Food, Junk food : examples and reasons (Fact Monster)

 

 

 

  • Cool Food : Tips and Quiz (coolfoodplanet.org)
    KIDZ / ADOZ / School and Parents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature :

 

  • OYSTERS AND CRABS, THE POPCORN OF SHAKESPEAREAN THEATERGOERS
    "Tudor theatergoers snacked on seafood while enjoying plays by Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe...
    Food remains and seeds indicate that the preferred snacks were oysters, crabs, mussels, periwinkles and cockles. Walnuts, hazelnuts, plums, cherries, peaches, dried raisins and figs were also popular...
    The audiences also indulged in pipe-smoking."
    (news.discovery.com)