Podcast: Food in The Land of the Rising Sun

As we conduct interviews with people who have experienced Japanese cuisine first hand, we get a peek at Japanese culture.

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What Goes On In The Cafeteria?

You are about to find out.

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Recipe Contest!

Attention all FoodStuffs readers! Artichoke magazine is having a dessert recipe contest. This is your chance to be featured in our food magazine! We want your favorite, most tasty dessert recipe. Be creative, but not too complicated. The winner will be named and have their recipe published in the Spring Edition of our magazine.

Please give entries to Ms. Young or email them to artichokezine@gmail.com by April 30. Each submission should include the name of participant, the entire recipe and all ingredients with exact measurements. A picture may be included, but is not required.

Politics of School Lunches

  Have you ever wondered what goes in to making those appealing French fry's in the school cafeteria? There is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes in government buildings that tells your school what and how they can feed you. Read more when Artichoke comes out!

Chef With No Borders

One would have to grow a third or fourth arm to count all of the places Aisha Essien has traveled to. Even then it would be incredibly difficult. The upcoming Artichoke magazine features Aisha recounting her extraordinary travels throughout Africa and South America. She shares unique insight about the differences she observed in the culture surronding food, as well as culinary knowledge, learned from working at restraunts and even owning one of her own.

Concessions Trailer's secrets

Every one's seen all those trailers around town. However, there's a surprising amount of political maneuvering along with competition in this industry. Also a look into the technicalities behind trailers and into F.N. Goode Burgers. All in Trailer Trash:The trend of concession trailers nation wide and the politics trying to destroy them, in the upcoming spring issue of Artichoke. --Blair C.R

Healthy Food, Healthy Mind

Do you struggle with fast food addiction?
Do you want to live a healthy life but don't know how to?

In "Change Your Ways, Change Your Life," Birdman will reveal the secrets to how food can be an integral part of a healthy lifestyle.

--EMG--

Kebab Crisis, Lucca, Milan

In an effort to preserve the "culture" of Italy, small town Lucca placed a ban last year on any new restaurants, cafes or bakeries opening that don't serve all Italian food. This has had a big impact on the hundreds of kebab vendors who roam the streets of Lucca and now Milan. They are struggling to find ingredients that satisfy the "all Italian" label. It has been difficult for officials though to determine what food is foreign, and what is authentically Italian. They seem to be letting French cuisine slide, however bans have been placed on the importation of all Chinese vegetables. Truthfully though, Italian food has been contributed to from Chinese and Peruvian cuisines alike as well as many others. What are the implications of this for the rest of the world? Will we eventually become so wrapped up in our own cultures we will outlaw all foreign competition?

Portion sizes since the last supper

Hey readers, here's a really short and curious article from the New York Times about portion sizes for the last thousand years. A study conducted by two brothers looked at 52 different paintings from 1000 to 1800 of the last supper found that the portion sizes and plate sizes increased significantly over that time. So apparently the trend of recent years of increasing portion sizes isn't a singular event.

This Monday evening is the first night of Passover, as all you Jews out there should know. This weekend, while I was taking a break from cleaning out the house for that holiday, I came across this article in the New York Times about a Seder in the White House. It's nice to know that we have people running our country that enjoy a good meal even if it is not related to your religion.
Make sure to enjoy your matzo! (or not...)