Submitted by Stuart Broz on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 8:15pm
If you haven't done so yet, you should watch Jamie Oliver's TED talk about fighting obesity. I've never really been a Jamie Oliver fan... and, yes, this video is almost a half hour long, but the topic merits your attention. Really.
Submitted by crimfan on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 11:25am
So when I was in Europe, I had a conversation with a friend of mine from Australia. He grew up in the US but moved to Oz when he was pretty young (mid 20s), so he has some interesting cross-cultural perspectives at times. One time we were riding on the train and there were some kids next to us eating extremely sweet and fruity smelling candy and he remarked that Australians don't tend to have a sweet tooth.
Submitted by crimfan on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 10:35am
A few days ago---mentally exhausted from the end of the semester, which is just nuts---I had Bloggingheads.tv on in the background and saw an interview with Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham, who's hypothesis is that cooking is, essentially, the cradle of civilization. (This was before Kwai-Chang Cain accidentally offed himself, naked in a Bangkok hotel room, or any of the other subsequent distractions hit.) Now I see he's written a book, which is reviewed here.
