I live with a roommate who is allergic to all forms of dairy. Because we make “community” food/meals for everyone who lives at our house, we need to make accommodations for his allergy in all our meals. I had to…
Category: Culture
Living with an Autoimmune Disease
As most of my friends know, I have been recently diagnosed with an autoimmune disease — Hashimoto’s. I have spent the past few weeks looking at food blogs dedicated to making life easier for those with my illness. I was…
Mapping the World through Food
Food: An Atlas is a great example of how contemporary publishing projects can work. A UC-Berkeley lecturer and cartographer put out a call for maps from all of the world and then launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of the book. You can download the whole PDF at the Guerrilla Cartography website. It contains a lot of terrific information design that should be of interest to people interested in technical communication as well food.
Mission Possible: A Neighborhood Atlas
Also check out “Mission Possible: A Neighborhood Atlas,” another project of Jensen’s—more awesome information design and inspiration.
Accuracy is Important
In any field you go into, there are going to be those small issues that no one even thinks about until the less experienced start to make their way in. The people at Bon Appetit have compiled a list…
Fast food made him LOSE weight!?
Meet Omar Elbaga, an enthusiastic researcher pushing the boundaries of his own health for a risky, 30 day food experiment. For one month, he ate nothing but fatty, processed, fast foods and by the end of it, he actually lost weight. On his blog, he documents his story through a 70 minute video as well as posts about his findings and his troubles along the way. Even though he lost around 10 lbs., is his body really “healthier” than it was before?
His documentary is similar to the infamous movie SupersIze Me where Morgan Spurlock eats everything on the McDonald’s menu for a period of 30 days. In Spurlock’s case, and basically everyone else in the world, fast food cause his body only to go through only extremely negative effects. Through both films, we learn more about the effects these fast food products cause to our bodies and our minds.
Change Your Life With a Cookbook
People swear by everything and can’t resist to tell their friends about things they should try and things that they won’t be able to live without. For foodies, it’s cookbooks. Buzzfeed’s article “19 Cookbooks That Will Improve Your Life,” consists…
Potato Famine Frosting
Holidays are rooted in cooking and family recipes. When we remember Christmas or Thanksgiving, we remember the smells and the old cookie recipes written on index cards. Along with the holidays comes themed cooking. For Easter we color eggs, for Thanksgiving…
Pet Food News
To follow up on my previous post of the cookbook for our pets, I’ve found a website that has all of the latest news to pet food. The website has sections such as Recalls, Regulations and News. Susan Thixton is the…
Unique Restaurants Stateside
I have never really chosen a restaurant for the experience, but imagine the possibilities. Asian and European cultures have been doing themed and “weird” restaurant experiences for ages, and now many have started coming up stateside. On CNBC, they list…
An NHL Level Diet
Growing up we always dreamed to be the best at something we loved. For me this was to be the best hockey player in the world. When I thought about how to accomplish this the last thing I thought about…