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• The popularity of fake meat spiked during the start of the pandemic, but now consumers are tightening their wallets, scrutinizing nutrition labels, and asking if plant-based meat is really a better alternative to the real thing, from a cost, health, and environmental perspective.

  

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  3 days ago

  Plant-Based Meat Is in Free Fall

  thetakeout.com - Hoang Samuelson

  Just over a decade ago, two new companies emerged with a mission to change the way consumers consume: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, founded in …

• He said the secret to his physique was raw meat, but it was actually something else – and now his fans are suing him.
  
  

  

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  Who is the Liver King?

  

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  Brian Johnson — aka "Liver King"— has millions of TikTok and Instagram followers. They hang on his every word as he extols the virtues of "ancestral living," which includes eating raw meat and taking organ-based supplements that he just happens to sell. The problem? He has also been taking performance-enhancing steroids, and now his disillusioned followers are suing for $100 million in damages. Here's a look at who he is, and the risks of raw meat diets and steroid use.

• "The table is set with crystal glasses, and the plates of fine china rest upon golden chargers. When Bill presents the plate to Frank he doesn’t just plop it down, but rests it and then does a little turn — voila. This is a meal that prioritizes pleasure amid even the most dire circumstances."

  

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  In the Dystopia of ‘The Last of Us,’ There’s Still Beauty in Eating Well

  Eater - Bettina Makalintal

  The following contains spoilers for HBO’s The Last of Us. To call previous episodes of The Last of Us, the video game-based HBO show in which a cordyceps infection passed through flour and sugar turns humans into zombies with mushrooms for faces, a food show would be like saying Hannibal Lecter is a …

• "For dinner that night, I had some Cup Noodles. I gave myself an internal motivational speech about how this would be my version of the Couch to 5k. I would go from Cup Noodles to eight pounds of ramen. The name Domrongchai would be synonymous with victory."

  

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  Jan 24

  I Tried Eating 8 Pounds of Ramen in One Sitting Because I Have Free Will

  FOOD & WINE - Alexandra Domrongchai

  To me, the most impressive thing someone can do is eat a large plate of something. There's something beautiful about the combination of physical and mental skills required: the ability to consume large quantities of food quickly, without becoming sick, due to the high level of discipline over mind …

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  5 days ago

  Mung bean omelet, anyone? Sky high egg prices crack open market for alternatives

  NPR - Stacey Vanek Smith

  Americans love eggs. And it is a consuming love. We eat about 280 eggs a year (more than half an egg per day). But lately, that love is costing us dearly: The price of eggs has roughly tripled since the pandemic began and egg shortages are hitting parts of the country. That combination has created a …

• "Female relatives ... talked about their reticence to eat in a place where they thought they’d be judged by fellow diners, silently pitied as a loser"

  

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  5 days ago

  You should dine out alone

  Vox - Alissa Wilkinson

  At a recent family gathering, the conversation turned to dining, and from there to a common practice of mine: eating alone in restaurants. My grandmother, who’s in her 80s and grew up in the upstate town where they all live, said she’d never do it, that when she was a girl it was frowned upon and it …