28/10/2009
lu # 5
“A range of nutritious elements that were once found in many commonly eaten foods, then disappeared from nearly all commonly eaten foods for a while, and are now once again found in commonly eaten foods by virtue of being added as supplements or genetically engineered into them. Originally given women's names, like hurricanes, vitamins are currently designated by the letters A, B, C, D, E, and K, with the less-appetizing F, G, H, I, and J understandably omitted. It goes without saying that foods from cultures that do not write in Roman letters, such as Chinese and Arabic, contain no vitamins.”
Barry Foy, The Devil's Food Dictionary: a pioneering culinary reference work consisting entirely of lies. Illustrations John Boesche, Frogchart Press, 2009.
http://www.devilsfooddictionary.com
25/10/2009
23/10/2009
lu # 4
frankenfood
“In 1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided to allow American companies to market genetically modified foods. That decision prompted Paul Lewis, an English professor at Boston College, to write a letter to the New York Times in which he decried what he called "Frankenfood," an innovation as misguided (in Lewis' view) as Victor Frankenstein's creation of his monster. Since then, the word has spread like wildfire: a Google search for "Frankenfood" on the Internet returns over 84,000 hits, and it appears in a book title, The Frankenfood Myth, published in 2004.”
Mark Morton, dans la chronique Ort of the week sur le site internet du magazine américain Gastronomica.
22/10/2009
vu # 5
Edouard Manet peint un déjeuner pris à même le sol dans son célèbre tableau “Le déjeuner sur l'herbe”. La représentation et le questionnement autour de la nourriture a suscité chez les artistes de tous temps de multiples expressions. Prétextes à montrer des intérieurs, des événements, des personnes et des denrées, ces œuvres témoignent également d’époques, d'usages et de manifestations diverses du rapport à la nourriture.
Une série d'œuvres consacrées à ce thème sont présentées sur ce blog. Peintures, vidéos, performances, photos, films, toutes évoquent, plus ou moins directement, l'acte de manger.
15/10/2009
lu # 3
Charles Clover, The End of the Line, 2004
Ce livre (encore à paraître en Europe) met à jour les effets dévastateurs de la pêche excessive. Le documentaire du même nom basé sur l'ouvrage a gagné un prix lors du dernier Sundance Film Festival.
http://endoftheline.com/film/