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FOOD NEWS!

Spring 2024

  • Vegetarian pop star. [1]
  • Research on low fat dairy. [4]
  • Calorie restriction and longevity. [5]
  • Food news for the Food industry. [6]
  • Tamales in Kendall Yards. [7]
  • Critical review article on Seaspiracy. [8]
  • How Industrial Food companies co-opted the “anti-diet” movement. [9]
  • Recipe revisited. Red lentil barley stew. [10]. Pics
  • Locally sourced meat shop in Brooklyn. [11]
  • Two products of the Slow Food Movement: Terra Madre, September 2024. [12] and UNISG in Potenza, Italy. [13]
  • European Agricultural Politics. [15]
  • How do we use our dwindling supply of water? [16]
  • Big sugar in India. [17]
  • Washington’s cage free hen law goes into effect. [18]
  • Campbells’ soup sued by EPA over pollution. [19]
  • A famine in 2024 in an area with plenty of food. [20]
  • Recipe. Red lentil barley stew. [21]
  • A year ago, California banned some food additives [22]. Now, Illinois is considering do that. [23]
  • Regional approaches to boosting local food production. [24]
  • Oprah leaves Weight Watchers’ board, donates stock. [25]
  • Food app with NOVA score for processed and ultra-processed foods. [26]. For comparison in class: Nature Valley granola bars on the app and the ingredients label. [27]
  • Lead in kid’s applesauce. [28]
  • Hot sauce story.
  • "The Taste of Things" is playing downtown.
  • Restaurant Week.
  • E Coli outbreak in raw cheddar cheese brand. [29]
  • Valentine’s Day issue: Merging your diet with a partner. [30]
  • Addio, David Bouley. [31]
  • Addio, Bob Moore. [32]
  • Example of social media chef, with local angle. [33]
  • Example of social media source for a new food. [34]
  • New “culinary” french film, “The Taste of Things” [35]
  • New Afghan restaurant, Emran. [36]
  • Alcohol and the Gut. [37]
  • UPF and your brain. [38]
  • Food social media feature of the day! Gastropod. [39]
  • Food menu trends.[40]
  • Alarming rise in colorectal cancer amoung young people. [41]
  • Multi-vitamins may improve memory. [42]
  • A nice summary piece on your gut. [43]
  • Salmon nutrition profile. Also connects with our nutrition study. [44]
  • You’ve seen a million articles about the Mediterranean Diet, but this is a good time to refresh yourself on it. Nutrition chapters coming. [45]
  • Sugar tax research suggests that taxing sugary beverages reduces consumption. [46]
  • Gatronomy of salt. [47]
  • The story of the goiter and the first food additive. [49]
  • Farms, markets, water. [50]
  • Weight Watchers pivots. [51]
  • Large energy drink at Panera = 5 Red Bulls. [52]
  • Avocados from Mexico causing deforestation. [53]
  • Pesticides on foods and sperm count. [54]
  • Make-shift dinners. [55]
  • Web site that assessed degree of industrialization in food products. [56]
  • Pigs and abortion at SC [57]
  • UW - GU med school talk on gut. [58]

Spring 2023

  • Big Barn Brewing in Green Bluff. [59]
  • Look for a “Tilth Alliance” wherever you are going. [60]
  • Hot tamales, issue. [61]. Related issue in Queens. [62]. Issue: lowering market barriers to small food producers.
  • Chapati. Example of foodways. [63]
  • Rolex for breakfast. Example of healthy street/fast food. [64]
  • Mocktails having a moment. [66]
  • Taco Bell's innovation lab. [67]
  • Mental health and farming. [68]
  • A lot of seaweed. [69]
  • Crumbl cookies. [70]
  • Meat in public school meals. [71]
  • Sylvia's Feasting at Home. Original Thai Noodle Salad from Mizuna [72]
  • Dairy Farm explosion kills 18,000. [73]
  • Food additives ban. [74]
  • Lysteria salad recall [75]
  • A novel restaurant concept around plant-based foods. [76] [77]
  • Food waste prevention week in WA. [78] and elsewhere [79]
  • E Coli in meat and UTIs [80]
  • The politics of nitrogen and animal production. [83]
  • Baguettes and energy costs. [84]
  • Volatility in Salmon populations. [85]
  • More shade on BMI. [86]
  • Oh my goodness! Food news you could not have imagined! [87]
  • Terra Madre 2022 [88] You may want to browse this in connection with our discussion of slow food. Also, slow food USA. [89]
  • Coffee study. [90] Kuan Yuan teahouse (now online) [91].
  • Girl Scout cookies, as Food Culture. This year. [92]. Girl Scout objects to palm oil. Child labor in palm industry that supplies GS cookies. [93]
  • Nyer article on Ozempic. “The Ozempic Era” (in shared folder).
  • Dan Ahdoot, Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live [94]
  • Phosphorous in the Ag ecology. New reading for our Ag unit! (See shared folder, "Phosphorous Saved Our way of life -- and now threatens to end it" Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker).
  • Gastronomy news: Fish sauces in food history. Contemporary recipe. [95]
  • Advanced stage colorectal cancer rates rise in under 55 y.o. Americans. Guess what some of the risk factors are? [96]
  • Grant Achatz. Images. Also, NPR story. [98]
  • Latino workers settlement. [99]
  • Sweetener health concerns. [100]
  • Gander and Ryegrass.
  • Eduardo's ethical foie gras. [101]
  • Book Review. Grim Reapers, Ian Frazier. [102] Reviews of Tom Philpott, Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It, and Sara Vogel, The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm.
  • Child labor in US slaughterhouses. [105]
  • Changes to US school meal program helped reduce BMI in children and teens, study says [106].So what are the current limits for sodium and added sugar for school lunch programs? [107]
  • "USDA last year released a report that showed added sugars in school meals far exceed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans standard that no more than 10% of calories from meals should come from added sugars. 92% of school breakfasts and 69% of school lunches were found to have exceeded the limit."
  • Child influencers promote junk food on social media. [108].
  • Dark chocolate health concern from mineral uptake. [109]
  • High-rise towers of pigs. [110]
  • Saving the egg from the era of lipidphobia. [111], [112]
  • Some classes of weight loss drugs, but there’s a catch. [113]
  • But then, is it ultra-processed? Ultra-processed food health hazards. [114]
  • Better frozen pizza. [115]
  • Foods that hurt your teeth. [116]
  • Inlander Food News. [117]
  • New guidelines from Am Acad of Pediatrics on treatment for obesity. [119]
  • Three Spokane restaurants get recognition from Seattle Met magazine. [120]
  • The Inlander Food News this week. [121]
  • Food/Social Media sharing: Send in a link to a social media food site that you like or want to recommend to the class. I'll feature at least one per class. Here's mine for a starter: [125]
  • WSU’s seed bank in local Inlander story. [126]
  • Organic labelling crackdown from USDA. [127] This connects with an earlier Food News article on organic labeling fraud: The Great Organic Food Fraud [128]
  • Inlander for Local "Food News!!" [130]

Interim Food News

  • Eggs in short supply. [131]
  • Most read food stories of 2022. [132]
  • Precision Fermentation. [133]
  • Defining “whole grain” [134]
  • Obsesity conference. [135]
  • FDA proposes new “healthy” icon for food products. [136]
  • Processed foods and cognitive decline. [137]

Spring 2022

  • Global fertilizer prices spike as producing countries move to guarantee their supplies and prices. Montgomery would say, “It’s happening again…” [138]
  • More on Francaise, the replacement for Casper Fry. [141]
  • Spokane food (truck) scene: [144]
  • Huberman Lab, a student recommended podcast. Food, but many other topics as well. [146]. Also, @thatnextlevelgirl on TikTok.
  • Rick Bayless makes black mole. [147]
  • New documentary. Cow
  • The mushrooms are talking to each other…. [148]
  • Strains on forage seed supply due to drought. [150]
  • Farm to table experience through GU (image.jpeg in shared folder).
  • Free philosophy books in April. Check this folder every Monday for new free books.
  • Local and area restaurant news from the Inlander. [151]
  • Bird flu updates: Iowa to kill 1.5 million hens and turkeys. 16.9 million killed in US since January.
  • Bird flu outbreak. CDC, NPR. Note the concerns and language.
  • New (to me) food, nattō. [152]
  • Some effects from the Ukraine war on food supplies and hunger. [153][154]
  • New York’s mayor wants you to eat better. [158]
  • Chez Panisse is back. Quick look at the menu. [159]
  • Cell art. [160]. From New Yorker article on new cell research. [161]
  • Preview of meat ideology. [163]
  • Amazon-ification of Whole Foods. [164]
  • My practicum progress report. Camping friendly and last minute ready meals.
  • Local chef semifinalist for Beard Award [165]
  • Inlander's Food News [166]
  • Local kitchen store completes expansion! [168]
  • "Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet," Semple, Westbrook, and Kessel, NYT. [169]
  • "See the True Cost of Your Cheap Chicken," King, Westbrook, Kessel, NYT. [170]
  • Recommending "Gastropod". Gastropod looks at food through the lens of science and history. Co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode every two weeks. [171]
  • Very old food news. Discoveries of the diets of Roman gladiators. (shared folder)
  • Food-based Dietary Guidelines around Europe. [172] FAO page for international browsing [173]
  • Worms for dinner (see shared folder image). What is the most unusual food you've eaten or tried to eat?
  • "Savor, Celebrate and Pay Attention: 8 Lessons From the Eat Well Challenge"[174] PDF in shared folder
  • Uno Mas. Restaurant biz in Spokane. [175]. Zona Blanca [176]
  • EWG, Food evaluation site. [178]
  • Example of American healthy food blogger, fave of mine, Sylvia Fontaine. [179]
  • Ethiopia’s ensette plant touted as food source for warming world. [180]
  • NYT article on trends toward suburban restaurants. [182]. Not quite true in Spokane, though there are examples: Luna on South Hill.
  • Kismet - Menu just in. [183]
  • Feast World Kitchen [184]
  • 1st Day Food Survey (in shared folder). Some rough gender comparisons:
  • Women: more likely: to have eaten out and ff growing up; eat prepared foods now; judge prepared foods healthy; dance or play music; look forward to cooking;
  • Men: More typical Am. diet growing up; Less cooking instruction; more likely to see cooking as a chore.
  • Philadelphia restaurant outreach to Afgan refugees using Afghan refugee chefs. [185]. Mention Feast World Kitchen in Spokane [186]
  • Industrial bag lettuce recall [187]. Why does this happen so often? [188]
  • A personal favorite food blogger.[189]

Between Courses

  • Small organic dairy farmers under pressure from larger operations. [190]
  • Federal initiative to boost competition in meat industry. [191]
  • Slaughterhouse workers in Colorado. [192]
  • The Great Organic Food Fraud [193]
  • Anti-biotic free pigs. [195]
  • SNAP benefits to increase. [196]
  • Sleep and the industrial diet. [197]
  • Chron's disease and diet. [198]
  • PNAS report on soil erosion [199]
  • New dietary guidelines give alcohol and added sugar a pass. [200]
  • Suffering of Dairy cows in industrial food system. [201]

Fall 2020

  • The new Col. Sanders [202]
  • First sighting of a "Quetzl" in Final Essay animals! [203]. Welcome quetzal!
  • Update on the US food producer and supply chain under stress from the pandemic. [204]
  • Some interesting photography of fast food workers. [205]
  • Chipotle's menu reinforces false ideas about plant protein.
  • The nice folks who manage your meat supply chain. [206]
  • British food tv show with strong following. [207]
  • New restaurant concepts. Digital restaurants. [208]
  • New lockdown for in-person dining in Washington.
  • Guest workers wages. [210]
  • Christmas early! Harold McGee has a new book out. Nose Dive His magisterial On Food and Cooking is still very current in its revised edition.
  • Meat and Dairy subsidies vs. veggies [212]
  • David Kessler, an author in our course, has been chosen as one of the co-chairs of the incoming President's COVID taskforce.
  • Rich Rolls. Not exactly news, but relevant to today's topics and a good example of food social media (A small assignment coming to you soon.)
  • More evidence of weed resistance to GMO BTCorn. [213] This supports Montgomery's and many biologists' assessments.
  • Are there Trump and Biden fridges? [214]
  • Coke cancels 200 drink brands [215]
  • Trader Joe's Fish recall [216]
  • Twinkie from hell. (student contributed) [217]
  • Truffles in the Piemonte [218]
  • Wall street journal article on farm policy [219]
  • Mia Kang, memoir on her experience with eating disorder. [220]
  • Example of agroecology academic activity. [221]

Sabbatical Year 2019-2020

  • [226] Glimpses of the Global Food Industry

Spring 2019

  • Ecoli beef recall
  • Pretty great curry episode on gastropod. Firm in the area of food cultures.
  • Predicted effects of a southern border shutdown on fresh food. Food security / Food sovreignty
  • Italian olive oil crisis
  • Quick growth GMO salmon
  • Green New Deal and food policy. "They want to take away your hamburger."
  • heard on the radio: study showing that handwritten menus make customers think the food is healthier, but only in restaurants marketing healthiness.
  • related story on Roundup cancer lawsuit: [227] [228]

Fall 2018

  • How many Italians get their Olive Oil.
  • Some pictures from Florence/Italian food culture.
  • Tolstoy Farms near Spokane This article connects with Community Supported Agriculture and is relevant to the Slow Food / Slow culture discussion.

Spring 2018

  • NPR: DNA Analysis of Ancient Excrement Reveals the Diets of Centuries Past [229]
  • Silicon Valley Wants to Cash In on Fasting. [230]
  • Washington State Penitentiary prisioners on hunger strike due to extreme low quality of food. [231] and [232]
  • Something about Simon Fairlie, a food ecologist we will read at the end of the month. [233]
  • Watch this short video when you prep the vitamins chapter. [234]
  • Ongoing news over food in trade wars.
  • New organ? "the interstitium" ? In any case, a level of complexity for nutrition already.
  • Video that explains why food in America is so expensive [236]
  • Some new food economy related to restuarants:
  • Some events from Real Food Challenge group on campus:
  • Wednesday April 4thfrom 6:30-8:30 pm in Wolff Auditorium we will be having a screening of a film called Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth (Frauke Sandig and Eric Black, 2011). This documentary film follows the stories of six young native Maya in Guatemala and the Chiapas region in Mexico. Through an examination of their daily and ceremonial life, the film explores the determination and resistance of these communities as they confront the new realities presented by the presence of Monsanto in their native land. The film is approximately 90 minute in length and will be introduced by Dr. Stephanis (Modern Languages), who will provide some of the cultural and historical context. After the film, we will have a short discussion on some of the issues raised in the movie, like GMO’s and sustainability. We would love it if you would encourage your students to attend the film screening, and consider providing credit for the event. Light snacks will be provided, so if nothing else that will hopefully help encourage students to come.
  • Second, between April 3rd and April 5th our club will be putting on a campaign called Vote Real. Vote Real is an initiative that we at Real Food Gonzaga are launching to provide GU students, faculty and staff with the opportunity to move the Real Food Challenge forward in a way that meets their interests and desires. When you Vote Real, you choose between 3 different food products that you would like to see shifted from current conventional standards to a 'real' product (fair, humane, ecologically-sound, and/or local). This voting period we will be voting between Carrots, Romaine, and Onions. The product that receives the most votes will be shifted on Sodexo's purchasing roster as seasonally available…students will help create the change that they wish to see…and we will be that much closer to meeting our Real Food Challenge goal (20% Real by 2020) and creating a fair, healthy, and environmentally-sustainable food system. Students are welcome to start voting on the 3rd at www.tinyurl.com/guvotereal . We would really appreciate it if you would encourage your students to vote!


  • Spring Break
More on inequality in food
  • People are signing petitions to add pet food to the use of food stamps. [237]
  • Chemicals in Mac and cheese. [238]
  • Phthalates are everywhere, and the health risks are worrying. How bad are they really? [239]
  • CDC Factsheet on Phthalates. [240]

Spring 2017

  • Shepard's Grain video: [242]
  • The Farmer's Daughter Food Truck in Spokane: [243]
  • Trump admin changes rules on school lunch nutrition. [246]
  • Economist: Do higher minimum wages make bad restaurants close? [247]
  • Research on artificially sweetened drinks. [248]
  • More on the microbiome: pregnant mice on penicillan and probiotics [249]
  • Why so much Vitamin D? [250]
  • Trends in Italian farming: [251]
  • recent book reference: Ed Yong, I contain multitudes. [252]
  • Two movie recommendations: The Gut [253] and Digital Food [254]
  • The Western Diet in Mexico - [255]
  • One of the products of the Slow Food Movement, started in Italy by a group led by Carlo Petrini. [[258]]
  • Jerome Groopman review of two new books: [259]
  • Human trafficing in the US Food Industry [[261]]
  • Foley research page for Philosophy of Food [263]
  • Civility and Food -- quote from Bybee's "How Civility Works"
  • "Just Eat It" trailer [264]. Also, look into "gleaning" as a social practice. Society of St. Andrews.
  • So, if extrusion damages nutrition, what about pasta? Why doesn't it have a high glycemic index like breakfast cereals?
  • "In pasta products, gluten forms a viscoelastic network that surrounds the starch granules, which restricts swelling and leaching during boiling. Pasta extrusion is known to result in products where the starch is slowly digested and absorbed (59,60). Available data on spaghetti also suggest that this product group is a comparatively rich source of resistant starch (61). The slow-release features of starch in pasta probably relates to the continuous glutenous phase. This not only restricts swelling, but possibly also results in a more gradual release of the starch substrate for enzymatic digestion. Pasta is now generally acknowledged as a low glycemic index food suitable in the diabetic diet. However, it should be noted that canning of pasta importantly increases the enzymic availability of starch, and hence the glycemic response (62).[265]
  • The Impossible (Heme) Burger: [266]
  • Fiber in breakfast cereals [267]
  • Read about "Food extrusion" in wikipedia [268]
  • The Calorie: In addition the Gastropod episode on the The Calorie, which points out reasons to be a bit skeptical about how we use it, there is this article from The Atlantic [269], which explains why the USDA standardized RDAs on a 2,000 calorie diet, even though many Americans require more.
  • The Carl's Jr. Biscuit Controversy deepens. [270], [271] So what is buttermilk anyway? [272], vegetable shortening [273], the Hardee's recipe [274]
  • Coeur Greens. Local entrepreneur using a container approach to farming [275]. The Facebook page is a bit more informative. Related youtube on vertical farming [276]
  • "The Illusion of Taste" -- a Nyer article on industrial food psychology. [277]
  • Roundup cancer lawsuit and regulatory story: [278] [279]
  • Good Food News sites: Science Daily Food Section [280]
  • Eating and Inflammation [281]
  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Annual report on Vegetarian Diets. [282]
  • Interesting page about Grimod. [283]
  • Explore Feminist Food thought. Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-vegetarian critical theory is considered important in the field. This course bibliography is pretty interesting. [284]
  • decline of nutrition in current vegetables and fruits: [285]
  • recent Microbiome articles: [286], [287], [288]
  • spending on food by country: [289]
  • "New Dietary Guidelines Crack down on Sugar but red meat gets a pass," NPR Jan 7, 2016 [294]
  • George Monboit's review of Simon Fairlie's Meat: A Benign Extravagance [295]
  • recent food justice article: [296]
  • Fave Food blogs: Gastropod
  • Local and Regional Food info:
  • David Kalplan's U of North Texas Philosophy of Food bibliography: [300]
  • Marler Clark -- [301] - the lawyer made famous by the 1990's Jack in the Box scandal makes a career of food liability.
  • Functional Medicine Site: [302]
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