Whale is delicious’: The push to revive Japan’s whaling culture
In a seminar room at Tokyo’s prestigious Waseda University last month, about 100 students and guests milled around makeshift tables adorned with tubs of deep-fried whale meat. They swapped views on the commercial whaling industry as they dipped nuggets of the crispy dark flesh into mayonnaise. On whiteboards set up around the room, they shared their thoughts, including whether they found it tasty. Most did, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.
The male sex had taken to cooking, specifically in this case cake making, a considerable time before this.
‘When so much is heard of women invading men’s domain in the sphere of sport,’ wrote The The male sex had taken to cooking, specifically in this case cake making, a considerable time before this. The first instance I found was at Saint Luke’s Christmas Fair in 1904. Mr J. Wicking entered a bachelor’s cake and Mr. Trinnick entered a married man’s cake.[1] In this article I track men contestants in cake baking competitions 1904 – 1954. I look at what cakes they entered, what prizes they got, and their motivations where that was recorded. I end with a comment on Australian masculinity occasioned by men cake-makers.
There’s a plan for free school lunches in Queensland. Is this a good idea?
Queensland Premier Steven Miles has announced free school lunches if Labor is re-elected at the state’s upcoming election on October 26. The A$1.4 billion policy would cover primary students in public schools and begin next year. Labor estimates it would save parents about $1,600 per child, per year. On Sunday, Miles said:[The program is] universal to avoid stigmatising the kids that need the food the most, but also to ensure that it supports every Queensland family.The meals will be delivered in partnership with P&Cs Queensland, Queensland Association of School Tuckshops, school principals, Health and Wellbeing Queensland and non-government food providers.
‘Shrinkflation’ is the Albanese government’s next target to protect supermarket shoppers
The Albanese government will tackle “shrinkflation” in supermarkets and potentially other parts of the retail sector. This is where the product’s size is reduced but the price stays the same, or the price is cut by less than the reduction in size. The practice has become increasingly common. The government will strengthen the Unit Pricing Code so people can make better comparisons. It will also bring in “substantial” (but unspecified) penalties for supermarkets that breach the code.
American Food Traditions That Started as Marketing Ploys
Growing up in suburban New England, fluffernutters—two slices of white bread slathered with peanut-butter and marshmallow goop—were a lunchbox staple for many of my classmates. For the elementary school set, it’s a pretty optimal snack, one that fully dispenses with the vague pretense of fruit in a PB&J in favor of a maximum sugar rush. The combination has been a cult fixture in the northeast for more than a century. We know it’s not good per se, but it holds a place of perverse regional pride that only comes from nostalgia.
If you’re familiar with the pretzel chain Auntie Anne’s, chances are that you know what its stores smell like. The distinctive, powerful fragrance of freshly-baked, buttery pretzels wafts across food courts in shopping centers, airports, and train stations around the world. Each sniff takes us back to the last time we found ourselves inhaling the delectable aroma. Even if you don’t eat Auntie Anne’s pretzels, their scent is hard to miss wherever the company’s 1,200 locations can be found. And Auntie Anne’s knows it. “There are few scents more recognizable than the aroma of Auntie Anne’s,” the company’s chief brand officer declared in a press release announcing this signature scent would be bottled and sold as a perfume called “Knead.” Described as “a wearable scent infused with notes of buttery dough, salt and a hint of sweetness,” the fragrance sold out online within 10 minutes of its launch.
How Chain Restaurants Use Smells to Entice Us
If you’re familiar with the pretzel chain Auntie Anne’s, chances are that you know what its stores smell like. The distinctive, powerful fragrance of freshly-baked, buttery pretzels wafts across food courts in shopping centers, airports, and train stations around the world. Each sniff takes us back to the last time we found ourselves inhaling the delectable aroma. Even if you don’t eat Auntie Anne’s pretzels, their scent is hard to miss wherever the company’s 1,200 locations can be found. And Auntie Anne’s knows it. “There are few scents more recognizable than the aroma of Auntie Anne’s,” the company’s chief brand officer declared in a press release announcing this signature scent would be bottled and sold as a perfume called “Knead.” Described as “a wearable scent infused with notes of buttery dough, salt and a hint of sweetness,” the fragrance sold out online within 10 minutes of its launch.
Hungry Work
History is littered with many such kitchens. Domestic work, and cooking in particular, has always been a sustaining force for radical social movements: the transformation of any social and political landscape is hungry work. Food is a focal point around which communities under threat solidify their interdependence, not only bringing people together but also structuring how they relate to each other, providing parameters for frequent meeting and exchange. A meal cooked in a community kitchen once a week can be enough to sow the seeds for critical analysis – beginning perhaps with joint observations about the local area, and expanding when people and their neighbours start to ask why things are the way they are
Grocery prices at Coles and Woolworths go up and down. What’s behind the pattern?
If you were to grab a box of Cadbury Favourites off the supermarket shelf, how much would it cost?
It depends on whether you’re at Coles or Woolies, and what week it is. At Coles, a single box costs either $11 or $22. And at Woolworths, it’s the same, but on different weeks. It ends up looking something like this, where the price repeatedly moves up and down between two points
