Food FOMO? Check this out!
FOMO: Fear of Missing Out. A term coined in the past decade by Patrick McGinnis a former Harvard MBA turned venture capitalist and author, it is a fear or anxiety rooted in the human mind and compounded by the spread of social media in our daily lives. Symptoms include checking the phone every two minutes for fear of missing out.
Do you have fomo? If so, you have come to the right place.
FOOD+ journal’s FOMO section is about food-related discussions, information, happenings in that the editors have come across and think you shouldn’t miss out on. We will share stories worthy of your time, books to indulge in, events to hit, or articles to sink into. We will include suggestions of films to watch, recipes to try out, or trends to keep a tab on, even love letters to get inspired by. The aim is to feed your incessant curiosity and enrich your social wallet.
Our first FOMO is with an Italian accent.
🤖🌿 Pesto is going to get even better. Apparently, AI is now capable of growing basil in optimal conditions in order to produce more powerful flavours. Welcome to the brave new world of AI augmented food.
With all these new technologies, we keep asking ourselves if there is any romance left in cooking. That’s why we have been won over by episode 1 of “Fat, Salt, Acid, Heat”. Watch how a true Italian grandma prepares Ligurian pesto with chef and show-host Samin Nosrat 👉 starting at 13min 30s of the show on Netflix.
Talking about Italy, it just labelled century eggs as inedible. 🙊 The famous Chinese delicacy are duck eggs preserved in a mixture of clay, ash, salt and lime, giving it its unique black-coloured translucent flesh and pungent taste. There are many ways to enjoy them, but sadly it’s not to the taste of the Italian authorities. So, what do you think: enjoyable or inedible? Try one and decide after reading this.
If you know or have heard about, read or watched something interesting that you think other readers should not miss out on, feel free to contribute by writing to the editors here.
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