Read Up On It – April 27th, 2012
Read Up On It was absent on Passable last week, but we plan on making it up to you with some great links and reading with our latest installment.
- Although we tend to stay only with weekly news, this post from last week by Hilary Beaumont over at Open File tells the story of a Halifax speakeasy deserves to be touted.
- Also on OpenFile and in a moment of sheer vanity, I’d like to post a link to a story that I wrote about restaurant criticism and anonymity, including quotes from Passable’s own Melissa B.
- The New York Times had a great little sidebar piece on why you should peel your peas (kind of like how we posted last week about chick peas for hummus) and a story about the growing movement in academia towards food studies.
- And for all of you who wondered what the differences between creole and cajun cuisine are, well, the Huffington Post has it all figured out.
- Attention all hop growers? Did you know you may be sitting on a gastronomic goldmine? According to the Smithsonian Magazine, they are, or rather their shoots are, the priciest veggie around.
- It was announced all over the interwebs this week that they finally figured out what causes ice cream headaches. I wonder if that applies to me when I drink slushies and my eye teeth freeze up and hurt. (Via Gizmodo)
- Treehugger had a neat little post on why carrots are orange. Blame the Dutch!
- Over at Grub Street, news about David Chang’s upcoming Toronto Momofuku outpost. I foresee a trip, very soon.
- And finally, over at The Atlantic, a story about how animal fats were replaced by vegetable oils. Blame Corporate America.
