Kobe burgers
Burger King to offer burgers made of Kobe beef. I’m guessing not at the BK in Burkina Faso.
Archive of posts filed under the food category.
Ag, Cities, Water in Australia
Australians seem to want to confront the inevitable conflict between ag and urban water use by buying out the farmers: Australia’s government promised Tuesday to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country’s worst drought in a century…. But a mayor in the farming district targeted …
You know you’re in the rich world when…
From the AP story on the Mars-Wrigley merger: “In terms of Warren Buffett’s sweet spot, these are exactly the kind of brands that he wants,” said Jet Hollander, a former candy industry executive who is president of the snack food consulting firm Pre-Eminence Strategy Group. I’m guessing they don’t have “snack food consulting firms” in …
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Backyard Birdseed
My colleague Susan Stiger did a nice job in this morning’s newspaper of connecting the dots between global food and local bird food: Don’t believe everything is connected? At the moment, gasoline prices, Burmese cooking oil and potato chips are ruffling the feathers on your backyard birds. This is a good example of an effective …
Food Price Index
I’ve been looking for a standard food price index comparable to the “barrel of oil” or the “gallon of gasoline” we’ve all come to know and love and, more importantly, intuitively grasp. The idea here is a number that’s standardized, readily available and easy to grasp. The Economist has its Food Price Index, but WTF …
Food Trade Issues
Via Michael Tobis, a Financial Times story about growing export restrictions in response to global food shortages: On Monday, India scrapped tariffs on edible oil and maize and banned exports of all rice except the high-value basmati variety, while Vietnam, the world’s third biggest rice exporter, said it would cut rice exports by 11 per …
Visualizing Data
Via statistical modeling, a video of a wonderful British art piece using grains of rice to represent various subsets of the world’s population: More from the creators.