I set out to write a post about British Monarchs who suffered the worst food in the history of monarchy. I’m quite certain that a long time ago I read an article about a series of British Kings whose meals were usually rotten, wine filled with dregs (the servants would have filtered it through cloth, […]

If you’re not a Vampire or supermodel, I’m under the assumption that you eat every now and then. Food processing being my area of expertise, I thought I would address a few of the popular “myths” regarding the industry.
Myth: Back in the early 20th century meat packing was dangerous. Sometimes workers would accidentally fall […]

I happened upon this article in the blogs section of the NY times:
Into the Mouths of Babes: Childhood Obesity
The article is about that 200 pound 8 year old boy in Britain whose mother may be charged with child abuse.
The comments section of the article is more interesting than the article. It basically explodes into […]

We in Chicago take our hot dogs seriously. We’ve been known to build shrines and idols to the hot dog. The one pictured below is near the intersection of Milwaukee and Foster. The eyes of the beings atop the roof glow red with displeasure (literally, they glow red) at their place in the food chain.

But […]

Well we’ve run the necessary tests in the cursed jar of peanut butter that we had in the office.
The result is Negative for Salmonella. This means that we didn’t find any. Hardly a surprise considering people had safely eaten from the jar before the outbreak had made the news (well, not literally from the jar. […]

I was pointed (by digg, of course) to the website for a new soft drink called Celsius. The makers of the drink claim that it raises your metabolism for a period of time resulting increased calorie burn during that time. I popped over to their FAQ to see how they account for this and I […]

Some of you have probably heard about this Salmonella outbreak that was linked to peanut butter. In short, if you have a jar of Peter Pan Peanut Butter with a stamped code (on the lid) starting with the number “2111″ you should throw it away. I suspect that they’ll implicate the packaging in the end […]

Take your sweetheart to White Castle.

For the past few weeks, White Castle Restaurants (and I use that term loosely) have been taking reservations for tonight for romantic dinners. Accommodations include table service, linens, flowers, candles, the whole nine yards. Call now! I called the hotline for the Chicago area White Castles and some of them […]

I always thought that this would be a really neat thing to have out on my patio during the summer months. I’m not sure how well it would work in the humid air of the midwest but since I don’t have a yard, deck, patio, porch, or even a gazebo it’s really a moot point.
First […]

Some years ago I was at a symposium where many officials from the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) were speaking. There they identified Obesity as the #1 food-related public health risk in the United States. This came as a shock to me as it was soon after 9/11 and, surely, the […]