A funny thing happens after you've been in space for a few days. The foods you liked on day one suddenly don't taste as good, and soon you're reaching for the hot sauce, even if you don't really like spicy foods. So why does it happen? Well, the short answer is that people lose their sense of smell in space. Astronauts have reported that food doesn't taste right after a few days on the International Space Station. Coffee is bitter, folks start craving sour and sweet foods, and everyone starts reaching for hot sauce.
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It’s Food Jim (But not as we nose it…)
Don’t Mention the Soy Sauce
What did you eat in the Great War, Daddy?
Before World War II Americans ate a lot of meat. And potatoes. Sometimes they ate their meat with their potatoes. Even Chinese and Italian food was considered exotic. But something changed in the 1950s. Slowly new cuisines began to grow across America. Diners continued to exist, but people were willing to try new things – both at restaurants and at home. A big reason for this was that the food wasn’t strange anymore – at least for the men who served in the war.
Gastro Porn
Food porn replaces real smut. But will slavering metrosexual men notice?
Peep World, the porn shop located near Madison Square Garden, is closing down to make way for a "very large gastropub." Counter in the East Village is sticking around longer than expected because the restaurant that is supposed to replace it, an East Village outpost of Empellon, is waiting for its liquor license.
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Tagged food, Fork in the road, porn
African Women Want Drunks and Hoes Banned
When Oxfam say the number of people going hungry is increasing, it's interesting to look at who the victims say are responsible
The new campaign that Oxfam is launching next week will have a big focus on gender – almost every issue in development looks very different depending on whether you are a man or a women. I saw that in graphic form last week in Tanzania, during a training session for 40 ‘farmer animators’ – local activists who are helping to galvanize their communities in Shinyanga, one of Tanzania’s poorest regions. Men and women split into two separate groups to discuss the causes of hunger, its impacts, and how people respond. Here’s what they came up with. First the men:
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