Animal, Vegetable, Junk – Chapter 9 (01/15/22) (Seminar Facilitator)
“I remember sacks from White Castle in that same period. Several years later, in high school, I drive ninety miles with some friends in an old Ford to my first McDonalds, listening to the Beach Boys on AM radio.” (Pg. 130)
What childhood memories do you have associated with cheeseburgers, fast food, and fast-food places? How do you feel about fast food now compared to when you were going up?
“Food manufacturers combat such truths with statements like “Almost all food is processed!” This is convincing enough for many people, since even whole grain flour has to be ground and refined, and nothing like bread exists in nature. How’s the buyers supposed to know what’s real and what isn’t?” (Pg. 140)
Exactly as the text asks, how is the buyer supposed to know what’s real and what isn’t?
“Canning became an industry of it’s own at the time of the Civil War, and soldiers from the North and the South alike got a taste of canned food.” (Pg. 145)
How has the need for canned and preserved goods changed since the civil war?
Taste: What You’re Missing – Chapter 9 (01/15/22)
“Hinkle’s solution for ensuring that the Logan bar wouldn’t be traded for cigarettes or girly magazines was a stroke of genius: he developed perhaps the original high-cacao chocolate bar, so bitter it was universally despised—unless you were on a life raft or trapped behind enemy lines with nothing else to eat.” (Pg. 196)
It’s common backpacker practice to bring a can of cat or dog food with you so you will have food that’s bad enough that you’ll only eat it in an emergency. What are some individual foods that are too repulsive to eat alone but can be paired to make good tasting food? Thinking about my sister liking black coffee at age three.
Experiment: Adjusting the Bitterness of Coffee
Materials:
-Black cold brew
-Creamer
-Sugar
Note: I hate coffee and I am very sensitive to bittiness
After pouring myself some cold brew (big thank you to my coffee drinking roommate), I had my mom and sister send me pictures of their coffee so that I could see their milk to coffee ratio. I know neither of them add sugar so I just had to guess. I started with the sugar, going about a teaspoon at a time. The first taste was bitter and the sugar was there but still unpleasant. It wasn’t until about the third spoonful that it really started to cut the bitterness. When I started adding the creamer it cut the bitterness much faster and left much less of a bitter aftertaste.
Community Gardening – (01/17/22)
MLK Day- No class