The Awl: Willy Blackmore calls out Nathan Myhrvold’s claim that modernist cuisine is a recent development, and profiles an Italian artist/chef named Filippo Tommaso Marinetti as proof. Marinetti was the father of the Futurists, an art movement whose manifesto “railed against technologically antiquated kitchens, International-style cuisine and, above all else, pasta, a food Marinetti hoped to abolish from the Italian diet.” Did we mention he was also a fascist? Because Marinetti was totally a fascist. (And that’s why Futurist cooking never
Bangkok Biz News: Andy Ricker is profiled by a Thai-language newspaper about the success of Pok Pok and being an ambassador for authentic Thai food. At least, that’s what Google Translate tells us. (It could be a list of Andy Ricker’s favorite episodes of Golden Girls and a few paragraphs covering his deep respect of Bea Arthur. We wouldn’t know.)
Food Safety News: House Republicans introduce a bill that seeks to remove recent calorie limits on schoolchildren’s lunches, claiming that it leaves kids hungry. We don’t know about you, but when calorie limits for a high schooler’s meal is 850 calories, and a McDonald’s meal consisting of a cheeseburger and medium fries tops out at 690 calories, we have no idea what the definition of “leaving kids hungry” means anymore.
KABC: A new dating site in Los Angeles matches people by their dietary choices and restrictions. Finally! A website that will help us filter out real celiacs from fake celiacs! (Whiny, morally superior celiacs who don’t actually have gluten allergies are the worst. Seriously. The. Worst.)