What kind of cake do you make for a rat-obsessed friend?
One that looks like the little beasties have been at it, of course. The rats are made of brownies and so are their turds — via BoingBoing
It sounds like the perfect excuse to quaff more beer. New research with mice shows the beverage protects against the effects of some cancer-causing chemicals. But there’s a catch: it was non-alcoholic beer. Nonetheless, if the scientists can pinpoint the protective compounds involved, brewers may be able to produce beer particularly rich in them. While drinking too much alcohol increases the risk of cancer, for now it remains a mystery whether moderate tippling of alcoholic beer has any anti-cancer benefits
Starbucks will begin using paper coffee cups made partially from recycled material by the end of 2005. The move comes as the Seattle-based company is in the midst of an aggressive plan to ensure coffee sold in its stores comes from environmentally friendly farms that pay workers a fair wage
Mango growers in northern Australia are being urged to consider using green ants as an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. A three-year study funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research has found the ferocious predators are a cost-efficient way to keep most pests away from the fruit
Starbucks has launched an aggressive plan to ensure coffee sold in its stores comes from environmentally friendly farms paying workers a fair wage. By 2007, Starbucks expects that 60% of its coffee will come from farmers following strict rules on everything from forestation to pesticides to labor practices. About 10% of Starbucks’ coffee is bought from suppliers following such rules now
Flash drives are handy little units and cheap enough to be indispensible. They also come in a wide array of variants.
From the silliness of light up chunks of plastic sushi — via boingboing
To the seriously cool functionality of the FlashPoint, which is a US$99, 512MB USB flash drive, with a twist.
It has a female USB jack, and if you plug any other USB drive into it, any files in your share
directory on the drive will be automatically copied over to the other flash drive. So you can copy all your files even if you don’t have a laptop handy — via boingboing
The European Patent office in Munich had granted a patent to Monsanto on 21 May 2003. The patent covered wheat exhibiting a special baking quality that Monsanto claimed to be its invention. However, Greenpeace proved in its opposition that the wheat variety was bred by Indian farmers for improving its baking quality and it was not a genetically-engineered invention as claimed by Monsanto
Assault rifle designer Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov now brings us joy instead of pain, in the form of Kalashnikov Vodka. The beverage has been distilled with Mikhail’s precepts of simplicity and reliability firmly in mind. Nostrovya!
McDonald’s lost a legal battle in Singapore to stop a food company from distributing products named MacNoodles
, MacTea
and MacChocolate
Zambian police have arrested a man who exhumed, cooked and ate part of his grandson’s corpse. Police spokeswoman Brenda Muntemba said police had no idea why the man, who had no history of madness, had started eating his grandson, who died in July. The man was charged with interfering with a dead body and also for trespass in the graveyard
A Church of England bishop has adopted a non-traditional approach to tempt his disappearing flock to return to the fold: chocolate. Some consider it a sin to indulge but the Church of England is holding up chocolate as a potential savior for its diocese in Manchester, which has been threatened by falling attendances — via Pagan Prattle
Glenmorangie was at the centre of a furious bidding war last night as the Macdonald family’s decision to sell its controlling share sent ripples of interest through the City, catapulting its shares up over 25%. The company has been valued at £250 million, but analysts say it could reach £300m if a bidding war ensues. Although no formal bids have come to the table, two front runners in Brown Foreman, (makers of Jack Daniel’s) and Bacardi have emerged
In our own raffish colonial way, we have inspired an article at Kitchen Geek. With the patience and economy of an O’Reilly book, Jim explains the mystical link betwixt coriander and cilantro, and gives Red Wolf the caffeine she so desperately requires.
In related frozen beverage news, I am seriously considering getting myself one of these evil 37000 rpm commercial bar blenders for xmas. Apparently if you fill it to the brim with ice and booze, it can produce 32 oz of frozen margaritas in 4 seconds.
Hungry summer picnickers will soon be able to tuck into their sandwiches, sausages and pork pies without having to take the clingfilm off first.
Scientists have developed a wrapping that not only keeps food fresh but can also be safely eaten.
The film, which contains natural preservatives, can be fortified with vitamins and minerals. Used in liquid form, it can also be sprayed on fresh foods such as fruit to keep them fresher.
US researchers have unearthed what they say may be the oldest known brewery in the Andes, a pre-Incan plant at least 1000 years old that could produce drinks for hundreds of people at one sitting. The University of Florida said its archaeologists and researchers from the Field Museum in Chicago found the brewery at Cerro Baul, a mountaintop religious centre of the Wari empire that ruled what is now Peru hundreds of years before the Incas
I have the weirdest lump stuff from my sister.
She was in town on the weekend and near this place that makes bullseyes and humbugs. I asked her the grab me a stick of rock.
I thought what came back was a giant green heart shaped lollipop, but it seems to be the end of what they make boiled lollies out of. One end it sort of stretched out about thumb thickness, but the other was probably a good 10cm across before it got pounded flat.
I think I’ll need to take a hammer to it to break bits off. Tasty, but strange.
Thought you’d enjoy this interesting hacker food blog I discovered via Slashdot. Nothing vegan there, sadly, but the chap blogs each recipe good and proper and includes a mouthwatering picture. I’m all inspired to hax0r some rice paper rolls for dinner.
Noticing that the typical meat packing plant produces 7 tons of blood a day, Russian at the Voronezh State Technological Academy have come up with a process to convert the proteins in the blood into the basic ingredients for milk, yogurt, chocolate, and coffee
— via BoingBoing
San Francisco talk show host, Katherine Fettke, has filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s, accusing the world’s largest fast-food restaurant company of failing to switch to healthier lower-fat cooking oil as it had pledged
Inghams has told McDonalds in New Zealand that the next shipments of soy to feed their chickens will not be GE, whereas Australian consumers still have no choice but to eat Inghams chickens fed GE soy
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