One Guy and a Dream

I have no idea how to tell if this is real, but I hope it is. A 10 year old food critic:

Adventures of a Koodie.

So far all of the reviews I’ve read were 5 stars (except for an 8 out of 10 for his family’s Thanksgiving dinner).

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One interesting dynamic of our political system is that for many issues, a small but determined group can push through legislation that is bad for most people, as long as the victims of the policy are sufficiently dispersed/diverse so that they do not form a strong lobby against the policy. This is especially evident in many farm subsidies. Here is one such policy that has been making it’s way around the series of tubes:

While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales – NYTimes.com.

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I didn’t know some of these myths existed, but there is plenty of good information:

The Food Labs Top 6 Food Myths Serious Eats.

This is a collection of links. A guy accepted a challenge to go a month eating on a budget of $1/day. It’s an interesting look at how much you can save if you obsess over coupons and sales:

http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/eating-well-on-1-a-day/

The wait is over! After much too long, let’s see if I can get caught up….

Here’s a chart on how scientific research matches up with people’s perceptions of health supplements:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/

When I first saw it, green tea was by itself as a huge blob at the top. The chart is constantly updated, so other supplements have joined it up there (and green tea has made other appearances as ineffective for other diseases).

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I’m a few days behind because of a busy weekend, so here are two links from when I was gone.

First, a pretty interesting octopus video.

Here’s the second link:

www.theonion.com/articles/man-at-very-top-of-food-chain-chooses-bugles,17322/

Usually I skip over sites like The Onion that consistently provide great content – otherwise I’d be flooded by links there. I’m making an exception here because this was a particularly great article.

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Why aren’t there any broccoli commercials? Be sure to click through to some of the example commercials.

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/04/questions-that-are-rarely-asked-1.html

Note: Before I get to the real post, a quick disclaimer. Weekend posts will probably be more sporadic than weekday posts. This link is really from yesterday.

I love cilantro, but I know many people who hate it, which I couldn’t understand. I guess this explains it.

?http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/dining/14curious.html

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I’m only a quarter of the way through it, but I’m pretty sure this article examining obesity in America is worth reading all the way through.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/13/specter.denying.science/index.html

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