Posts Tagged ‘food’
A blog called The Stir recently had a short post on the most hated foods. According to 9 Foods We Love to Hate, mushrooms came it at number 5. In this admittedly unscientific poll, the only foods ranked worse than mushrooms were anchovies, onions, liver and tofu. Well! Fungus is a Food? Now my interest [...]
Tags: cooking, edible mushrooms, food, mushrooms
According to The Priciest Foods Ever… And Why Expensive Foods Cost So Much, the white truffle is the world’s most expensive food. More expensive than any other food, let alone any other fungus, the white truffle stands at the top of the expensive-food chain. These gems are so expensive because of their rarity and because [...]
College students, who apparently are rather stupid (at least for the first five years of their post-secondary education) are reminded not to eat moldy food back at the dorm this Fall. If you are unconvinced of the wisdom of this advice, you can check out Student Diet 101: Don’t Eat Mold, by Madison Park, which [...]
Well, maybe not, but that is an attention-getting headline eh? But seriously, in the article Bag tax onerous, maybe unhealthy, a claim is made that two independent studies have concluded that “64 percent of the reusable bags in the study were contaminated with bacteria; nearly 30 percent showed bacterial counts higher than what is considered [...]
Tags: food, Mycologists
