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This will blow your mind…

La surconsommation from Lasurconsommation on Vimeo.

This sounds strangely similar to my method for finding good food in a new place…

Lunch with the FT: Tyler Cowen – FT.com

“Three decades and 84 countries later, Cowen has a honed method for how to find a tasty local: find someone ‘between the ages of 30 and 50 in the transport business, with whom I shared a common language, and just ask where do people go. And then I would go there no matter what … the chance that it will be very good is near 100 per cent.’”

Great interview.

The Kindest Cut on Slate is filled with mind-boggling statistics about food production, for example:

35 pounds of manure incurred per pound of saleable beef.

and

The poultry-broiler industry consumed some 240 billion megajoules of energy in 2005, or the equivalent of 42 million barrels of crude oil. That’s more than the entire country of Sri Lanka consumed the same year—all to keep us well-stocked with wings and drumsticks.

and

The livestock industry as a whole consumes a whopping share of the world’s crops—at least 80 percent of all soybeans and more than half of all corn.

and

food writer Michael Pollan recently suggested that if Americans went meatless one night a week, it would be equivalent to taking “30 to 40 million cars off the road for a year.”

I do like eating meat, but we’ve tried to cut back a bit. Maybe we should look in to raising some chickens in the back 40.

Baconnaise.

Amazing.

Our mission in life is to make everything taste like real, delicious bacon.

One of our favorite restaurants… Yarusso Bros. Damaged in Fire

Two factories in the Irish Republic produce more than 150 million frozen pizzas a year.

via BBC NEWS | Business | Inside a frozen pizza factory.

You have to check out that link and watch the video. Amazing! 150 million pizzas!

minnesota monthly just named their top 18 burgers in the state.

i want to try them all.

it’s on my list of todos.

since they haven’t heard of the internet yet though, they haven’t posted the top 10 online. here’s a hint: they pick Matt’s  number 1.

have you been to Matt’s? waaaayyy too many hipsters. pretty decent burger though.