Perhaps it’s not all that widely appreciated that several members of Crocodylia (that’s the taxonomic order, not a thrash metal band) are quite partial to a bit of fruit now and again. In fact, reveals a new paper in the Journal of Zoology “ … there is little doubt that on occasion, fruit is deliberately […]
Tag: Food
A logistical support bra for regulating eating behavior
BBC News reports “Microsoft working on a smart bra to measure mood.” The researchers, some of whom are at Microsoft Research, others at the University of Rochester, NY, USA and at the University of Southampton, UK, themselves report details in a paper: “Food and Mood: Just-in-Time Support for Emotional Eating,” Erin A. Carroll [pictured here], Mary Czerwinski, […]
What Eats What Where Near Singapore
Appetite is just part of this investigation of food and feeding: “Scavenging of dead invertebrates along an urbanization gradient in Singapore,” C.K.W. Tan [pictured here, right] and R.T. Corlett [pictured here, below], Insect Conservation and Diversity, vol. 5, no 2, 2011, pp. 138-145. the authors, then at National University of Singapore but now respectively at Oxford […]
Turnspit, the kitchen dog
Nicola Twilley essays upon the history of using dogs to power the preparation of food: Dogs still occupy a variety of roles in the human food system, from sheep herding to barbecued delicacy. What is less well known is that before the advent of gas or electric ovens, dogs also provided a convenient power source for […]