It’s the afternoon, and you deserve a break. Sit back, pour yourself a glass, and enjoy these food stories from around the Internet.
The Links
The winner of the 46th Pillsbury Bake-Off has been declared: Glori Spriggs, of Henderson, Nevada. Her winning recipe? Loaded potato pinwheels. Fun fact: Your cholesterol goes up just by reading about them. [The New Jersey Star Ledger]
Healthy, nutrition-minded vandals have taken to the streets of Germany! In a dastardly turn, these graffiti artists have defaced ads for Big Macs by “painting simple cook-at-home recipes on top.” They even spelled “putenschnitzel” correctly. [Grub Street]
Pumpkin-flavored processed foods are enjoying their best year ever, with sales amounting to more than $290 million—but these snacks almost never contain real pumpkin. Instead, they emulate pumpkin pie by using cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and a slew of synthetics: actones, ketones, cyclotenes, vanillin, and pyrazines. Just like mom used to make! [The New York Times]
Want to help out the fish industry? Sure you do! Your mission: eat anchovies. Recent studies show they have a higher economic impact when they're food for people and not food for fish. It’s probably because we’ve evolved wallets—and fish, thus far, have not. [UBC News]
No one’s ever been sure why we have bitter taste receptors, and now, in an exciting development . . . we're still not sure. [NPR]
The Drinks
Put those bitter receptors to good use—make yourself a drink with bitters. Laddie’s Sub-Bourbon has plenty of them.