If you are confused as to what ingredients are local in what countries, check out this campaign by advertising agency WHYBIN/TBWA in Sydney. It consists of national flags made of each nation’s popular local foods. The campaign was designed to get people interested in the Sydney International Food Festival in 2009. (via Local Food, Motherfu$k*r: 10 Awesome Ad Campaigns Addressing Food’s Carbon Footprint : TreeHugger)
Taking my treat from the bakery lady, I hear her mutter, “I don’t know why it’s called whoopie pies. They’re not even pies.” Curiously, NYTimes.com:
Food historians believe whoopie pies originated in Pennsylvania, where they were baked by Amish women and put in farmers’ lunchboxes. Tired from a morning’s work, the farmers purportedly would shout “Whoopie!” if they discovered one of the desserts in their lunch pails.
Ah, but pie? Whoopie sammich?
Food Inc - Official Trailer [HD] An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry. (via trailers)
Although eight of the ingredients in the beloved little snack cake come from domestic corn and three from soybeans, there are others — including thiamine mononitrate — that come from petroleum. Chinese petroleum. (via What Twinkies can teach us - Los Angeles Times)
Feeding my lethargy with these after work.
Choco Taco
Vanilla ice cream in a chocolate-coated crepe taco shell topped with peanuts.
(via seriouseats)
Wait. I used to drive-thru Taco Bell for these. Srsly.
