Potato diets, fast food ads and more!

A man eats potatoes for 60 days and other interesting bits about food this week.

Man goes on 60-day potato diet
Meet the Potato Man: Chris Voigt wanted to prove that the potato was an awesome food with great nutritional value - apparently the government considers it a starch, not a vegetable. So he decided to eat only potatoes for sixty days.  (The fact that he's the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission probably also had something to do with this stunt.)

When he ended his stunt on November 28, he had eaten about 1,200 potatoes, or 400 pounds of the starchy spud, "cooked every way but didn't allow butter, sour cream or any of the usual high-calorie toppings." He chronicled his long potato odyssey on his blog.

From the Seattle Times

Ads Vs. Reality
Tired of the disconnect between those juicy fat burgers on the billboards and the product you actually get over the fast food counter? Dario decided to actually shoot the product himself and compare the results with the advertising. Guess it's no spoiler to say the truth doesn't hold up well.

Puffery aside, food stylists make those products look good for the camera, and it's not easy. Food photography is serious business.

From Alphalia.com

What’s an MRE?
MREs, or "Meals, Ready to Eat", are standard fare for soldiers on the field. MREs are intended to be stored for long periods then eaten on the field. They're meant to be edible, full stop. So what happens when a food blogger decides to eat MREs that have been in storage for more than five years?

From Lost in Jersey

Get the party started!
Make party panic a thing of the past. Wennie writes a checklist of the things you should be attending to on the day of a party, cut into hour-long increments.

From Weenie’s Affairs

Food and the culture wars
Food gets political. A new front has opened up in the battle for ideas, and the lines cross right through your kitchen. Big business and health advocates are raring for battle. Whoever you sympathize with, make sure you have the facts on your side: advocates for taxing sweetened beverages (softdrinks, etc.) are being schooled by the authors of Freakonomics, who find that such sales taxes "have had minimal effect on obesity", because consumers do not decrease their caloric intake even when they cut down on the sweet drinks.

From The Washington Post

Potato image from sxc.hu

Fast food image from sxc.hu

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