{"id":7143,"date":"2013-02-02T06:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2013-02-02T06:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T14:51:31","slug":"food-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7143","title":{"rendered":"Food In The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5016\" alt=\"userpic=pastrami\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicpastrami.jpg\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>This is an offshoot of the previous news chum post that is specifically focused on food news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Packaging and Its Influence.\u00a0<\/strong>Our first item, from Bon Appetit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonappetit.com\/blogsandforums\/blogs\/badaily\/2013\/01\/food-psychologist-why-we-eat.html\" target=\"_blank\">is from a food psychologist and explores why we eat the way we do<\/a>. It posits the notion that we would eat a lot less if our plates were smaller, among other things (e.g., package size influences what we eat). I blame our mothers who taught us to clean our plates before we could leave the table.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bound in Chains<\/strong>. Our second article, from Slate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/doers\/2013\/01\/opening_a_quaker_steak_and_lube_the_secrets_of_a_successful_chain_restaurant.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">explores what it takes to open a chain restaurant<\/a>. I tend to discount chains in deference to local shops, but each chain is really a local shop, hiring from the community and serving the community. The real questions should be: (a) is the menu what you want; (b) is the food prepared on premesis; (c) does the food have the quality and price you want?<\/li>\n<li><strong>What&#8217;s The Bowl Without Beer?<\/strong> Our third article, from NPR, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2013\/01\/25\/170259193\/a-quest-for-real-beer-without-the-gluten\">explores the world of Gluten-Free Beers<\/a> and performs a taste test. Now, I&#8217;m not a beer drinking, but I know those who are. My wife (who used to be one before going GF) has tried some of these, and says they are pretty good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an offshoot of the previous news chum post that is specifically focused on food news: Packaging and Its Influence.\u00a0Our first item, from Bon Appetit, is from a food psychologist and explores why we eat the way we do. It posits the notion that we would eat a lot less if our plates were <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7143\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,56],"tags":[68,73],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-news-chum","tag-gluten-free","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}