I just finished this book last week. I highly recommend reading it.

On the subject of food, I made my own baguettes this week. While I've made them before and enjoyed the result I have found them to be labor intensive and came to the conclusion that I'd rather pay $2.50 at a quality bakery for one fresh out of the oven. Perhaps if I own a kitchenaid mixer with dough hooks someday I'll start making it by hand again.

Anyway, I have fallen in love with my bread machine. That is another post altogether. I decided to try making the dough in the machine and then rolling the baguettes myself. They came out great!
They look a bit funny on top because I don't have a scoring knife and used a regular one only I was afraid to cut too deeply. (Peter Reinhart drilled that into me while reading his book The Bread Baker's Apprentice, another fabulous cookbook.)

We ate them fresh out of the oven with a Cauliflower Cheddar soup and topped them with raw, fresh, local honey we picked up today at the farmer's market.
Food (and I use the term loosely) is getting creepier by the moment. I came across this product at the store a couple weeks ago:

That's right, pancake batter in a whip cream can (because it's way too hard to put flour water and sugar in a mixing bowl). It's even organic for the health conscious! If you are so inclined you can check out the demo video here.

Pollan warns in his book that it is only a matter of time before coke releases a vitamin fortified soda.

My girlfriend and I were talking about this the other day and realizing that it likely won't be long before we have organic high fructose corn syrup and crisco.

Here's another stellar product featured on the Daily Show not too long ago:

Bacon Flavored mayo anyone?