In 788 words, Paul Krugman sums up the global policy trap surrounding food. It's not funny or youtube, but it is insightful. He goes from the food crisis to emerging economies to oil prices to bad weather to biofuel to political mis-management.
Here's the beginning of Krugman's NY Times Op-ed 7Apr2008, "Grains Gone Wild":
After getting interested in the foodie scene mostly thanks to King Casey's erudite yet eminently readable food blog and a xmas gift of the Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover) from me to Tash (which I've been perusing), I'm slowly getting interested in being hoity-toity with mah food. Thanks, King Casey!
Photos from the last Shuttle mission You can see the cockpit and the blanket gap they had to fix. Plus some very nice EVA pics and Aurora Borealis from space.
I've been working on a cooking project for a while. I'm preparing photographing and writing about every recipe in The Gourmet Cookbook. Now I'm ready to blog about it. Come watch me drown in butter, attempt to confit my own duck legs, and tackle more than 200 pages of deserts.
Dinner invitations will be forthcoming because I certainly can't eat all of this on my own.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas...
- George B. Shaw[quote database]