DailyDirt: Engineering Food For Every Occasion...

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Fri, May 13th 2011 5:00pm — Michael Ho

The preparation of food has changed a quite a bit over the last hundred years or so. Sure, some things will probably never go out of style, but a few dishes will never be the same once food engineers get their hands on them. Here are a few quick examples of foods that folks are working on.

A nasty fungus is killing off the popular Cavendish banana. And if it's not stopped, yes, we'll have no bananas. [url]
The veggie burger is evolving slowly to be more palatable for restaurant-goers and the general public. But stop comparing it to a burger -- because it'll never be the same. [url]
An Australian brewery has created a "space beer" called Vostok -- a beer that's designed to be consumed in zero gravity environments. Regular beer induces a disgusting "wet burp" in zero-G, and this ain't no Star Trek synthehol. [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

Filed Under: banana, food, space beer, synthehol, veggie burger, vostok

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Anonymous Coward, 14 May 2011 @ 4:37pm

Top story is an eight year old eco-panic?

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
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Michael Ho (profile), 15 May 2011 @ 12:11am

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Okay, so bananas aren't *all* going to die, but even in that snopes page:

"Lack of genetic diversity does place the banana in a precarious position, and the danger posed by Race 4 [the fungus strain] to the Cavendish is real."
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Hoeppner, 15 May 2011 @ 12:13pm

Of course bananas don't have very much genetic diversity. They're under 200 years old.
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another mike (profile), 16 May 2011 @ 1:57pm

oxymoron?
If it's going to call itself a burger, it had better have been mooing.
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