The city of Rotterdam plans to prohibit people from feeding bread to ducks. The news organization NRC reports, on April 7, 2022, about the pushback on that, especially from the city’s most eminent duck biologist. Here is a machine translation (into English) of that report: Doubts in Rotterdam about the usefulness of the ban on […]
For those who are savvy about the Ormulum, new insights await as to bread, crumbs, and related matters. Details are in the study: “Bread, Crumbs, and Related Matters in the Ormulum,” Nils-Lennart Johannesson [pictured here], In Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX), pp. 69-82. 2006. The author, at Stockholm […]
“Cravings for rice, a Japanese dietary staple, have been reported for Japanese people. Deprivation of a craved food is known to increase the desire for it, but the effects of deprivation of rice have yet to be explored.“ Until now, that is … for investigators Sakura Komatsu,Yasushi Kyutoku, Ippeita Danc, and Kenjiro Aoyama at Doshisha […]
If you hear a ringing in your ears, and if you eat food, you may or may not be persistently or bothersomely annoyed by this study. It is yet another document that explains to people that they should or should not drink coffee: “Association of Dietary Factors with Presence and Severity of Tinnitus in a Middle-Aged […]
We give you this day double your daily ration of studies about bread: “PROTON INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION ANALYSIS OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN THICK BREAD SAMPLES,” Mohamed Baker Al-Bedri, Ikram Jameel Abdul Ghani, Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Al-Aghil, International Journal of PIXE, Volume: 19, Issues: 3-4(2009) pp. 133-141. (thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our […]
Saliva as a food ingredient is not an entirely new concept. (See the item here on saliva noodles.) For an earlier take, sample Nicholas Robinson’s book TREATISE ON THE VIRTUES and EFFICACY OF A CRUST of BREAD, Eat early in a Morning Fasting: To which are added, Some particular REMARKS concerning CURES accomplished by the […]