The debate rages on about the categorization of food items as soup, salad,…
food
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Soup-Salad-Sandwich space
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Cuisine Ingredients
What are the ingredients that make each cuisine? I looked at 40,000 recipes spanning 20 cuisines and 6,714 ingredients to see what makes food taste different.
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Food patterns
Food trends come and go. Some stay longer than expected, and others come…
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Food pictures taken with thermal camera
Thermal cameras, which use infrared to detect heat, provide images of temperature. Firefighters…
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All the National Food Days
Keep track of the 214 days out of the year that are a national food or drink days.
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Change in the British diet, since 1974
From the Open Data Institute, an interactive looking at diet data made available…
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Visual breakdown of additives in food
In their book Ingredients, Dwight Eschliman and Steve Ettlinger explore additives in common…
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The big companies behind organic food brands
When you walk down the aisles of the grocery store, there are probably…
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Rising beef prices and cattle theft
Eric Benson for FiveThirtyEight delves into cattle theft, which can cost an owner…
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Cookie ingredient variants
For the holiday cookie makers, this one from Tessa Arias is for you.…
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Alinea cooker
Alinea is a restaurant by Grant Achatz known for deconstructing flavors and piecing…
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Big chicken
From Vox and research from Zuidhof et al., chickens are quite big these…
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Multivariate Beer
Can you experience data? Sometimes visualization gets you part of the way there, putting data into context, serving as a trigger for your memory, and all that. But only so much can happen through the computer screen.
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Data Cuisine uses food as the medium
Ditch the computer screen for your data. It’s all about the food. Moritz…
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Network of shared flavors
Jan Willem Tulp, for this month’s Scientific American food issue, recreated the flavor…
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Stop motion video: Food you can buy for $5 in different countries
This stop motion video from BuzzFeed shows how much food you can buy…
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Bourdieu’s Food Space chart, from fast food to French Laundry
In Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste from…
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Fat and calories depicted in food pictures
You would think that fat content and calorie counts would be straightforward by…
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Backbone of the flavor network
Food flavors across cultures and geography vary a lot. Some cuisines use a…
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Rethinking the food nutrition label
The food nutrition label is on almost every food item, but it can…
