Gorgeous summer vegetable tarts, a beautiful pizza peel, and neolithic knives in today's Delicious Links.
Gorgeous summer vegetable tarts, a beautiful pizza peel, and neolithic knives in today's Delicious Links.
• Savory Summer Tarts - So beautiful! At Epicurious.
• Neolithic-style Knives - A concept by Matthias Kaeding
• Mahogany Pizza Peel - by Will Pratt.
• Traitor Joe's - A site by Greenpeace that tries to shed light on Trader Joe's greenwashing, especially in the area of seafood.
those knives are awesome! they actually look like the kind the neanderthals used--- they were apparently more efficient than the human's version at the time.
would be fun to give it a try, they look like they would be good for herbs.
view Barbara S's profile
I love the knifes too! Ceramic though? Doesn't sound very durable. Wouldn't they break easily when dropped? I'd be gutted if I smashed my cool neolithic knife.
view buda's profile
Thank you for the Trader Joe's link! I find that store very disappointing when it comes to excessive packaging and limited information about food origin. It's refreshing to see at least one of these issues addressed.
view jessekl's profile
The knives: you know, I really like to have a part on my knife to hold that's not, you know, all /knifey/. Maybe the cavemen had some really effective callouses...
"Traitor Joe's": I'd probably feel more outraged if that site had a single substantiated statement on it. But it doesn't. Lots of accusations, lots of insinuations, but no substance and no proof unless you count a link to a Greenpeace site that cites TJ's for not living up to their labeling standards. I don't really have a dog in this fight as the nearest TJ's is several hundred miles away, but you've got to have more than just a catchy name to have a meaningful argument.
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Thank you for the post about Trader Joe's. I remember a while back The Kitchn posted a blurb about sustainable seafood that included a link to the Blue Ocean Institute. They have a very useful guide for consumers on what seafood is safe and sustainable.
It's really up to us to stop buying red-list seafood.
view peapod23's profile
Some of the info on that site about Trader Joe's is false (like, they stopped selling chilean sea bass 4 years ago). TJs does a lot of things right in the environment department, and plenty wrong. Vote with your wallets!
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