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Borough Market
I didn’t get many photos during my first outing at Borough Market, but I will be going back. Borough Market has existed since the 11th century but has moved from its original position to Southwark Street and Borough High Street. This beautiful building is crowded with stalls and the smells your encounter as you walk through are sensational. We stumbled through the crowds to find a place to eat and settled on Maria’s Market Cafe. It is right in the middle of the market with lovely staff, tables to sit and fantastic food. Eating within the hustle and bustle was great, especially for people watching. Borough Market has over 100 stalls of fruit,…
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Food Photography
In celebration of my first real apartment, I have bought my first real cookbook! The Kinfolk Table features recipes, and the stories behind them, from people across the United States. Paired with my new, adorable, salt and pepper shakers from Anthropologie, I cannot wait to begin testing out these incredible dishes and have dinner parties. I will chronicle the food here throughout the summer, hopefully they all turn out!
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Bolivians Expel McDonalds
In 2002, McDonald’s closed their last restaurant in Bolivia. The franchise spent millions of dollars in the Latin American country but could not break out of its deficit. Bolivia has a long tradition of using food as reciprocity. Many relationships are beyond money and companies like McDonald’s go against what the nation believes. Indigenous president Evo Morales called the chain and other American chains a “great harm to humanity,” when addressing the United Nations General Assembly. (Credit) Bolivians are not interested in food for profit and natives would rather buy food from local street merchants, the indigenous women called cholitas. Tanya Kerssen, research coordinator for the Food First Network, calls this Bolivia’s…
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Is Your Food Genetically Modified?
Humans prefer sweet and satisfying foods, so it’s not surprising to hear genetically modified corn began because of the sweet taste. Genetically modified sweet corn has been sold in supermarkets since the 1960s. Without proper food labels, consumers cannot tell if they are eating these modified foods. Corn in particular has an interesting past that shows how we have used science to create sweeter food. In the 1400′s corn of multiple colours was “central to the diet of people living throughout Mexico and the Americas.” 1 The colours surprised European settlers and by 1779 sweet yellow corn had caught their attention. The sweet corn won over the more bitter red,…
