Here's some food for thought for today...
- Still trying to calculate carbon miles for your food? Here's why it's a waste of time.
- The idea of "a city of farmers markets" sounds like a nice one, until we realize that a lot of people depend on supermarkets to survive.
- Fittingly, Torontoist has a piece on supermarkets and how to make them work for you.
- A restaurant in London has made tables out of large computer screens and diners can order their own meals, sans server, via computer. A franchise in the US works on a similar premise, complete with a credit card swipe, video games and movies.
- Hipsters in a pickle - canning is the new knitting.
- Don't eat the pretty berries! - A guide to what not to eat when scavenging in the wilderness. Note that the photo identified as chokecherries (which are actually edible in small quantities) is actually nightshade.
- And finally, news that sales of Palin Syrah wine have dropped significantly in San Francisco since the nomination of Alaska governor Sarah Palin to the US Republican vice presidential ticket.
