The Year in Food 2007

Published on Friday, December 7, 2007, by The CHOW Editorial Team / Edit Post

The Year in Food 2007

Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing, and more

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Magical Superfoods

As the finally-mellowing pomegranate craze has shown us, the path to salvation is paved with antioxidants. A raft of quasi-mystical, vaguely foreign-sounding “superfoods” vied to depose King Pom this year, among them goji berries, açaí berries, yerba mate, and white tea. They showed up in products ranging from cocktails to flavored tea bags, chocolate bars, and refreshing bottled beverages, accompanied by various health claims, some of which were actually documented. If flavor is a factor in these items’ popularity (and it’s not clear that it is), the chocolaty-tasting açaí berry gets CHOW’s vote. We like it Brazilian surfer style: the pulp mashed up and frozen as a sorbet, served with bananas and granola (in what’s known as an açaí bowl). —Lessley Anderson

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  • rogue brewing company for life! and of course long live the IPA!

  • Great review. Very enlightening. You guys do a fantastic job. Keep up the great work!

  • Wow, one paragraph of article per click. Four ads (three visa, one text for CNet at the top) per click that I noticed.

    Four ads per paragraph. Yuck.

  • The FDA actually got 34,000 comments in support of the current higher standards of chocolate. The current word is that the FDA has rejected the "safe and suitable substitutions" of vegetable fats portion of GMA proposal as it was based on the false assumption that "consumers had formed no expectations." (34,000 comments proved that we did have some expectations about what was in our food.)

    ...+READ

    The FDA actually got 34,000 comments in support of the current higher standards of chocolate. The current word is that the FDA has rejected the "safe and suitable substitutions" of vegetable fats portion of GMA proposal as it was based on the false assumption that "consumers had formed no expectations." (34,000 comments proved that we did have some expectations about what was in our food.)

    http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/category/fda-COLLAPSE

  • Wild salmon are being threatened in a more fundamental way than 'grain barges on the Snake' (a threat that I, a denizen of the Columbia and friend to fisherfolk have never heard mentioned). There are big out-of-state energy speculators who are about to build out heavy industrial sites in the delicate estuaries where the salmoids live. Once the baby salmon have to cope with the initial dredging;...+READ

    Wild salmon are being threatened in a more fundamental way than 'grain barges on the Snake' (a threat that I, a denizen of the Columbia and friend to fisherfolk have never heard mentioned). There are big out-of-state energy speculators who are about to build out heavy industrial sites in the delicate estuaries where the salmoids live. Once the baby salmon have to cope with the initial dredging; the heated, treated water being spewed into their nursery; or being sucked into the ballast water for LNG shipments, what happens upriver won't matter one bit.

    btw, the day-to-day fight over wild salmon happens in meetings where commercial fishers and sport fishers are set up to fight each other for a dwindling allowed catch while the endangered, protected sea lions eat all the salmon they can get their flippers on and the energy carpetbaggers smile and pay for the right to kill lots of salmon babies. That's where the fish fight is.-COLLAPSE

  • foodperv! You're really earning your name here!

  • i like this one VEGAN-sexuals
    i guess oral sex is out cause that's eating meat eitherway

  • Personally, I love foie gras and have no plans to stop serving it on any menu!

  • For christ's sake. Enough with the sliders!

  • You know what? Who cares whether he caught the fucking fish or not! As far as I'm concerned he as a Chef is brilliant.