News Bites, August 13

What the blogs and news outlets were talking about this week:

• I don’t know why it never occurred to me to make tomato juice in a blender. Maybe because I’m not a big fan of tomato juice. Perhaps I should be.

• Farmer Daniel was featured in the Toronto Star last week.

• Interesting: Foods That Hurt Your Iron Levels

• Jelloware: The glass you can eat

• Mark Bittman found plastic in his soup and was disappointment by the lack of action taken to remedy the situation. It reminds me of the Sesame Street sketch with Waiter Grover when Mr. Johnson finds a fly in his soup (video below). Here’s Bittman’s followup.

• And is it possible to look at a Sesame Street birthday cake without smiling?

• David Lebovitz has been blogging from New York this week and I’m following along, noting food place for my next visit. The Doughnut Plant is on my list now. RUB Barbeque reminds me of The Stockyards but bigger, the way New York is bigger than Toronto. Toronto is like New York, but without all the stuff.

• Poor New Brunswickians being without ice cream during the summer. There’s a shortage because of the the Farmers Dairy strike in Nova Scotia.

• Be careful the next time you’re craving falafel. Falafel pita (from Tov-Li) has more calories, sodium than Big Mac.

• It was ballsy, but Serious Eats’ The Nasty Bits column covered yak testicles

• Remember my friend David from my blog post two weeks ago? He wrote a guest post for Fiesta Farms about being a first time gardener.

Hope you’re all enjoying the summer.

Eat well, be well.