I don’t like to mention that rich guy over at #Twitter, but he’s rambling on about #ClimateChange & agriculture, which is in my wheelhouse. And he is also unabashedly & absurdly wrong.
Misinformation on climate change is irresponsible & dangerous, so let’s be clear:
25% to 30% of global emissions come from our #food system.
As UT Austin’s Michael Webber describes, agriculture is a major cause, victim and - importantly - meaningful solution to #climate change.
Salad is cool. Salad saves time. Salad saves you money. Salad is good for footprint. Ready prepped in the fridge is awesome for health, exec function, good choices & quick meals. Salad is good rebellion, in lots of ways.
Consider just how many nudges you get in shows, on social, endless ads, pushing towards unhealthy, high profit, low nutrition, high cost, highly processed, high environmental impact, food.
Some of you know I’m a big fan of LA food. I think that dollar for dollar you get a tremendous amount of cuisines, varieties of foods, in this melting pot which feels to me like it has far more immigrant and working class food than the Bay Area. Even the density and quality of ‘fancy food’ is high!
👋Can anyone tell me where this
extremely cute cupcake sloth foto
is from? I can't find anything
about it.
👋Kann mir jemand sagen, woher
dieses extrem niedliche Cupcake
Faultier Foto stammt? Ich kann
leider nichts darüber finden. #Artist#Cupcake#Baking#Backen#Food
😢 I'm afraid it's AI and you have to
bake me one
😢 Ich befürchte es ist AI und ihr
müsst mir einen backen
Starting a thread on the different types of tofu and how to cook them. (Some of these are vegan, some are not. In Chinese cooking, tofu is not a vegan protein):
Egg tofu
This is one of my fave tofus. It isn't vegan. It's made with soy beans AND eggs. It has a eggy taste that egg lovers will love; but that goes way entirely when it's panfried lightly.
(edit: the official TapTap's Cooking Adventure Thread🧵)
This one came out iffy but it's mostly my fault. I didn't want this one (missed the chance to pick)
Should have trimmed the green beans better, I added potato water back and shouldn't have, but it tastes good so who cares. I already put some of the potatoes in a tub so it looks unbalanced
Oh look my very first CW police! My answer is - no I shall not 🖕It is not my job to take care of your tender, easily offended self. We #Malaysians love to celebrate food and will not hide #MakanApaToday to cater to your tender dietary sensibilities.
If you are offended by the #Food I eat there is the mute and block button and do kindly unfollow.
People can be so ridiculous 🤣 Those 10 calories used to type that message could have been used for something better.
Tonight's #food, scratch cooked lasagne. And the first lesson is it's better to get over the feeling of "uurgh that Wusthof could take my fingers off" and just grab it. Especially for carrots. It makes the wee Kitchen Devil look like a toy.
Just thinking about how when I moved to this part of the world, I missed my home food a lot but found new cuisines and ingredients that filled that hole. Like, HK / Cantonese / Toishanese food (the primary Chinese food of SF) is similar to what I crave but not 100% it. Malaysian and Singaporean Chinese food hits different.
Mexican, Salvadoran food has felt more homey in some ways.
Speaking of how the food cultures you grew up with impacts you:
When I left Southeast Asia, I only knew how to cook mostly French and Italian foods. It didn't make sense to cook Malay or Indonesian or Chinese foods because, well I could buy it cheaply any time I wanted. In that region.
I learned quickly that because I had never eaten a simple meal my entire life, eating food that was prepared simply made me extremely sad. Like, mental health bad / my life is bad / why did I leave, bad
Many believe a significant way to address #climatechange is to 'eat local,’ but that’s not always true. The impact all depends on the kind of #food + how & where it’s produced.
Some foods require fewer resources (water, energy) in some parts of the world. Season can be important. Overall, transportation has a much lower carbon footprint than land use change. And so on.
I found myself agreeing a lot with this Chinese Cooking Demystified video. The southern Chinese (especially tribal) foods near the border with Southeast Asia has a lot more in common with Lao or northern Thai food than with say, Shandong food (which in turn more closely resembles Korean food). The idea of nation states falls flat in the culinary sense.
When I was traveling around SE Asia I had a game I played with myself: if I meet a W or N European person, how soon before they tell me ‘food here is unhealthy because I don’t get to eat plain yogurt and raw vegetables’?
Very often, it was.. immediately lol
I mean, imagine saying that in the tropics, in a part of the world with almost no dairy industry
A bit like me dying of a lack of chillies there I guess
Favorite Scifi Food?
My favorites include:...
OC What food or drink do you dislike that a lot of people like?
What the title says. Feel free to get into fierce food debates in the comments....