{"id":8298,"date":"2013-08-02T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2013-08-02T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T00:34:12","slug":"chum-it-makes-a-tasty-dinner-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8298","title":{"rendered":"Chum: It Makes A Tasty Dinner Treat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4970\" alt=\"userpic=fastfood\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicfastfood.jpg\" width=\"90\" height=\"83\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Not that many themes have emerged from this week&#8217;s news, but there are a few. One has to do with food (unlike my previous post on <a title=\"Understanding the Agency\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8279\">FUD<\/a>). So, without further delay, let&#8217;s sit down and start chewing. Don&#8217;t forget to say &#8220;Grace&#8221; first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manufactured Food.<\/strong> When we think about manufactured food, our mind quickly thinks genetic modification by scientists in laboratories. That&#8217;s because our society today has led us to always think the worst is happening. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-cotton-candy-grape-20130801,0,3456231.story\">an interesting article about manufactured food &#8212; the old fashioned way<\/a>. The article is about a fruit breeder who is developing all sorts of specialized fruit, like super-sweet grapes, or grapes with odd shapes. He does this the Mendelian way &#8212; slow and careful cross-pollination and plant breeding, with plenty of trial and error. You may see some of these in your market &#8230; if you can afford them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why Does Food Taste Good&#8230; or Bad.<\/strong> Two articles related to how we perceive how food tastes. The first looks at airplane food &#8212; or more properly, food you buy and bring on an airplane. It never tastes as good in the air &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/one-reason-airline-food-so-bad-your-own-tastebuds-6C10823522\">it turns out there are scientific reasons for that based on the environment in the aircraft cabin<\/a>. The second looks at beer and blue cheese. Some people love the taste; others can do without (I&#8217;m in the without category &#8212; can&#8217;t stand the taste of either). This time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-sense-of-smell-20130801,0,2269596.story\">it turns out that genetics are behind the different perceptions<\/a> &#8212; there are particular genes that govern how we like these foods. I guess it is like the cilantro gene: some love it, to others it tastes like soap.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gluten Free.<\/strong> The other day I cited an article about people to go gluten free because of a fad. On the heels of that article comes a decision from the FDA to regular the term &#8220;gluten free&#8221; (and similar expressions). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-fda-gluten-free-20130802,0,2847966.story\">There is now a specific legal definition for &#8220;Gluten Free&#8221;<\/a>. Of course, it will take a year or so for that definition to go into effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that many themes have emerged from this week&#8217;s news, but there are a few. One has to do with food (unlike my previous post on FUD). So, without further delay, let&#8217;s sit down and start chewing. Don&#8217;t forget to say &#8220;Grace&#8221; first. Manufactured Food. When we think about manufactured food, our mind quickly thinks <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8298\">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":[110,68],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-news-chum","tag-food-sensitivites","tag-gluten-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","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=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}