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Chefs pick CBD- and cannabis-infused food as this year’s hot trend at restaurants
The FDA won’t approve of this year’s hot food trend. The National Restaurant Association and the American Culinary Federation surveyed 650 professional chefs about the top culinary and restaurant concepts for 2019. It found that 3 in 4 chefs said CBD- and cannabis-infused food would be a hot trend this year. Of course, chefs’ interest in cannabis…
Veggie discs’ to replace veggie burgers in EU crackdown on food labels
Veggie burgers are for the chop, a Brussels committee has decreed, to be replaced by the less palatable-sounding “veggie discs”. And it won’t be just bean or mushroom burgers condemned to the food bin of history. Vegan sausages, tofu steaks and soya escalopes could all be approaching their ultimate best-before date, after a vote in the…
What It Was Like Doing Mushrooms With Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir
It’s been said that Bob Weir’s eyes are a vast ocean of wisdom. Perhaps mushrooms are the way in which the legend developed that vast well of Earthly intellect. By Daniel J. Levitin. Bob Weir was a founding member of legendary rock band the Grateful Dead. I ran into Bob the other night at an…
THE 2019 JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEES
At a ceremony at Hugo’s by JBF Award winner Hugo Ortega in Houston, we announced the 2019 James Beard Award nominees in our Restaurant and Chef, Media, and Restaurant Design categories. See the full list below! The 2019 James Beard Awards Gala will take place on Monday, May 6, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The 2019…
Scientists Played Music to Cheese as It Aged. Hip-Hop Produced the Funkiest Flavor
The creation of good cheese involves a complex dance between milk and bacteria. In a quite literal sense, playing the right tune while this dance unfolds changes the final product’s taste, a new study shows. Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani at Reuters report that hip-hop, for example, gave the cheese an especially funky flavor, while cheese that…
How does the human brain experience taste?
Researchers have discovered how a mysterious part of the inner brain distinguishes salty from sweet, bitter from sour. It all happens in the same region that regulates emotion—which explains a lot. March 20th, 2019by Jessica Fu Scientists have recently gotten one step closer to solving an intractable mystery: what food tastes like to the brain. Like…
What should the future of healthy eating look like?
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) are now accepting public comments as they develop the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs). The guidelines, updated at least every five years, establish official recommendations on healthful diets and disease prevention to policymakers and eaters alike. They are shaped…
Somebody Call a Sturgeon! Caviar Prices Are Flatlining China has become one of the world’s largest producers of caviar and it is driving global prices down
ByLucy CraymerMarch 18, 2019 9:00 a.m. ET Caviar prices are sinking as fish eggs cultivated in China are flooding the global market for what used to be a rare delicacy. The tiny, salt-cured eggs from wild female sturgeon were once at risk of extinction due to overfishing and poaching. As a result, all trade in wild caviar has…
Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food
Pick a bunch of green grapes, wash it, and put one in your mouth. Feel the grape with your tongue, observe how cold and refreshing it is: the crisp flesh, and the jellylike interior with its mild, sweet flavour. Eating grapes can feel like an old pleasure, untouched by change. The ancient Greeks and Romans…
Can High-Tech Tools Solve Beehive Thefts?
Beehive theft is big business. When 100-plus stolen beehives were found in an almond orchard in Fresno County, California, detectives arrested the beekeeper tending the hives but struggled to return them to their rightful owners. “There were hives everywhere, and we had no idea who any of them belonged to,” explains Tony Botti, public information officer for…
From CBD to plant based: 4 trends that dominated Expo West in 2019
ANAHEIM, California — More than 90,000 people traveled to California last week for the annual five-day exhibition of the latest products in the natural and organic industry. This year’s Natural Products Expo West spread across several buildings as thousands of exhibitors launched new products and discussed what’s next for food and beverages. Several trends clearly stood…
As warming waters push fish north, fishing communities have little choice but to follow
In 1997, large commercial fishing boats based in the coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina began shifting about 13 miles northward per year. By the end of 2014, they were harvesting off the coast of New Jersey. Although this was an unusual circumstance, it wasn’t singular. As it turns out, many large-scale fishing operations along…