The Year in Food 2007 : Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing, and more

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Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing: the people, events, and trends that shaped our diets.

Drinkies: Making waves in beer, water, liquor, mixers, and wine.

Buzzwatch: What things got hot, refused to die, or gave up the ghost.

Calamities: Deaths, scandal, poisonings, failure, heartbreak.

Morals: Stuff we did or didn’t do to save the planet and animals.

Media: Food in video games, TV, web shows, movies, newspapers, and cookbooks.

Backlash: Retaliation and revenge in the food world.

Money: Businesses that soured and soared.

Headlines: Government regulations, lawsuits, and what they mean for our stomachs.

Comments

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.

chef4cook Dec 15, 2007 10:55AM | link

For christ's sake. Enough with the sliders!

chef4cook Dec 15, 2007 10:58AM | link

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

chef4cook Dec 15, 2007 11:18AM | link

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

foodperv Dec 16, 2007 08:58AM | link

foodperv! You're really earning your name here!

tatamagouche Dec 16, 2007 12:32PM | link

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.

kitchenMage Dec 18, 2007 10:46AM | link

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/cat...

typetive Dec 18, 2007 12:01PM | link