Think of this as Thrilling Virtual Rides Through Food (before the food takes a thrilling ride through you), part 1. Andy Ellison does some lovely magnetic resonance imaging of foods. (Presumably he does other things, too. But we will concentrate here only on the foods). (He makes them into animated GIFs, which give a sort […]
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“Do you want eggs with that?”
What are the levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans? For answers, see the online Defect Levels Handbook of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “These ‘Food Defect Action Levels’ listed in this booklet are set on this premise–that they pose no inherent hazard to […]
Ig winner inspires Starbucks music
Starbucks, the widespread purveyor of coffee, announced that the work of 2008 Ig Nobel Prize winner Charles Spence (who was honored for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is) inspired them to create a sort of […]
Maggots in the index
This image shows the index to June Preszler’s delightful children’s book Flesh-Eating Machines: Maggots in the Food Chain. (NOTE: You can see a few of the books fun images, on Google Books. One is reproduced here, below the index.)