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Monday, May 20, 2013

The Salt

Can A Piece Of Hair Reveal How Much Coke Or Pepsi You Drink?

Carbon isotope analysis: a scientific way to know just how much soda kids are drinking behind parents' backs?

People are notorious for under-reporting what they consume — they lie, forget or just guess wrong. For researchers who want to know how much soda we're drinking, a high-tech analysis technique could help.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Salt

Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York

Autumn

May 19, 2013 Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as colossal statues that interact with the natural environment.

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Friday, May 17, 2013

The Salt

'Picture Cook': Drawings Are The Key Ingredients In These Recipes

Eggplant Parmesan for PROMO

May 17, 2013 Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook offers 50 illustrated recipe "blueprints" for basic meals — from simple snacks to more hefty dishes like eggplant Parmesan. She hopes they'll inspire any level of cook to improvise in the kitchen.

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The Salt

Flaxseed: The Next Superfood For Cattle And Beef?

NBO3 launched its enriched ground beef at the Tops grocery chain in New York in March.

May 17, 2013 After years of research, an animal scientist looking for ways to keep inflammation down in cattle came up with a novel approach: feed them flax. The flax in their food helps keep animals healthy and has an added benefit for people who later eat their meat: omega-3 enriched beef.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Salt

Congress: Where Food Reforms Go To Die?

The U.S. Capitol building

May 16, 2013 As Congress gets to work on the farm bill, two common-sense, bipartisan reform measures seem to have gotten run over somewhere along the way. The first would set minimum standards for housing egg-laying chickens. The second sought to change how the U.S. provides food aid to people in foreign nations.

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The Salt

No More Smuggling: Many Cured Italian Meats Coming To America

Even Sophia Loren felt compelled to smuggle mortadella, despite a U.S. ban — well, her character did, anyway, in the 1971 film Lady Liberty.

May 16, 2013 Culatello. Capocollo. Sopressata. It will soon be legal to import a whole new world of Italian cured pork products, thanks to the USDA's decision to end a decades-long ban. Every Italian region and province, and even many towns have their own distinctive salumi.

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Parallels

Underground Tunnels Feed Gaza's Hankering For KFC

KFC is delivered in one of the many underground smuggling tunnels connecting Egypt to the Gaza Strip city of Rafah.

May 16, 2013 Gaza Strip residents rely heavily on smuggling tunnels to Egypt. Among many other goods, the passageways are reportedly bringing regular deliveries of fast food.

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The Salt

How Trace Amounts Of Arsenic End Up In Grocery Store Meat

Roxarsone, a drug linked to elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in chicken meat, is no longer used in broiler chicken farming, producers say. But another arsenic-based drug is still used to raise turkeys.

May 16, 2013 A recently published study found slightly elevated amounts of inorganic arsenic in samples of chicken meat purchased at grocery stores. Arsenic-based drugs are no longer used in chickens — but they are still used in turkeys.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Salt

Can Star Power Make New Orleans' Food Deserts Bloom?

Wendell Pierce, the actor and co-owner of Sterling Farms grocery store, chats with Dwight Henry, who will be making doughnuts and buttermilk drops in the store.

May 15, 2013 Actor Wendell Pierce, who stars in David Simon's Treme, is trying to combat New Orleans' food deserts by building convenience and grocery stores in the city's neediest areas. But a host of stumbling blocks still make it hard to get fresh, healthful foods to people living in these areas.

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The Salt

Go Fish (Somewhere Else): Warming Oceans Are Altering Catches

Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon at Craig, Alaska, in 2005. Researchers say fish are being found in new areas because of changing ocean temperatures.

May 15, 2013 Fish are moving away from the equator and toward the poles to maintain their preferred water temperature. That means, for example, that fishermen are seeing swordfish normally found in the Mediterranean swimming near Denmark. But in the tropics, there are no fish to replace the ones that are leaving.

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Kitchen Window

Bringing Back Butterscotch

Whole Banana Crepe Cake With Yogurt And Walnut Butterscotch

May 15, 2013 Butterscotch seemed to have fallen out of fashion, but food writer Rina Rapuano says she's seeing glimmers of a comeback. And we don't mean hard candies and instant pudding. The revival of this old-fashioned flavor inspires a crepe cake, a chocolate-crusted tart and more.

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The Salt

Is Eating Too Little Salt Risky? New Report Raises Questions

Eat less salt, but not too much less.

May 15, 2013 A low-sodium diet may cause more health problems than a medium-sodium diet, a new report found. But some health advocates say focusing on the potential risks of a low-sodium diet distracts from the more important conversation about how to get Americans to start consuming less salt.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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Chris Hadfield: Space Chef In Chief

Cmdr. Chris Hadfield demonstrates how to make a sandwich, space station-style.

May 14, 2013 The Canadian astronaut didn't just tweet and sing his heart out during his five months as commander of the International Space Station. He also took time out to show the world what it's like to eat up there.

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The Salt

For researchers who want to know how much soda we're drinking, a carbon isotope analysis could help.

Can A Piece Of Hair Reveal How Much Coke Or Pepsi You Drink?

For researchers who want to know how much soda we're drinking, a carbon isotope analysis could help.

Philip Haas transforms a Renaissance artist's fantastical produce portraits as colossal sculptures.

Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York

Philip Haas transforms a Renaissance artist's fantastical produce portraits as colossal sculptures.

Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook aims to demystify recipes for visual learners.

'Picture Cook': Drawings Are The Key Ingredients In These Recipes

Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook aims to demystify recipes for visual learners.

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Kitchen Window

The revival of this old-fashioned flavor inspires a crepe cake, a chocolate-crusted tart and more.

Bringing Back Butterscotch

The revival of this old-fashioned flavor inspires a crepe cake, a chocolate-crusted tart and more.

Stash a treat to practice self-appreciation: slow-roasted nuts, salty-sweet matzo candy and more.

Try A Do-It-Yourself Mother's Day

Stash a treat to practice self-appreciation: slow-roasted nuts, salty-sweet matzo candy and more.

These regional recipes exemplify the virtues of Italian cuisine: simple, traditional and fresh.

Bringing Home The Essence Of Umbria, Italy

These regional recipes exemplify the virtues of Italian cuisine: simple, traditional and fresh.

Try them now in their seasonal prime in a chilled soup, a citrusy spread or a traditional rice dish.

A Fresh Pod Cast: Savoring Spring's Green Peas

Try them now in their seasonal prime in a chilled soup, a citrusy spread or a traditional rice dish.

Consider these wild prickly greens a stand-in for spinach, lending bright flavor to a tart and more.

Nettles Bring Spring To The Kitchen

Consider these wild prickly greens a stand-in for spinach, lending bright flavor to a tart and more.

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