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recent bookmarks from jerrykingRoti Takes a New Form: Convenience Food2023-10-11T15:12:15+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/dining/roti.html
jerrykingbread Caribbean food Indians Indo-Guyanese South_Asians convenience_foodshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4d268ffc914a/Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe - NYT Cooking2023-05-16T03:14:49+00:00
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12965-spaghetti-carbonara
jerrykingfood pastahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:cb9470559955/Is Tofu Good for You? - The New York Times2023-04-14T04:25:23+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/well/eat/tofu-health-benefits.html
jerrykingdiets food nutrition soyfoodshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d67a702f78eb/Think beyond breakfast: Porridge is the ultimate versatile food2023-03-21T01:42:31+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-porridge-nutrition-breakfast-ideas/
jerrykingbreakfasts food ideas Leslie_Beck nutrition porridge cereals grains versatility branching_outhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:838c9da29739/You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is2023-03-16T22:43:48+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/pizza-delivery-box-design-soggy/672712/
jerryking>The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.<<
]]>cardboard design food pizzahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7c0b1aea3bf6/Opinion: Look beyond grocers such as Loblaw: Food insecurity is going to get a lot worse2023-03-10T16:22:56+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-food-insecurity-inflation-climate-change/
jerryking>Political theatre aside, there's no going back to lower food prices, and as geopolitical tensions rise around the world, it's likely that food insecurity will worsen.<<
Food is getting so expensive that grocery executives such as Loblaw Cos. Ltd. chairman and president Galen G. Weston are being hauled before a >>House of Commons<< committee this week – after dodging a previous informal invite.
But cast aside this bit of **political theatre** and the role of Canadian grocers. Not only is this issue so much bigger than them, everything is also going to get much worse......There’s inflation, yes, plus geopolitical clashes and climate change – three issues that are raising >>anxiety<< levels around the world......>>inflation<<, >>geopolitics<< and >> climate change << may seem discrete, but they are combining [i.e. - "compounded"/"interconnections"] in ways that could push **food insecurity** to crisis levels by the end of this decade.
(1) even as central banks raise interest rates in an attempt to get inflation under control, food prices are not going to fall back to where they were. In other words, a return to a 2-per-cent inflation target won’t return the price of meat, bread or produce back to 2019 levels. It just means that food prices will continue to rise, only a bit more slowly.
(2) Re. geopolitics. Everything changed when Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. Until that point, the global political and economic order had mostly been settled. The end of the Cold War in the late 80s ushered in a new era of political co-operation and trade liberalization. That era has now abruptly ended......Famine loomed over many African countries as a result. Global commodity prices skyrocketed.....with tensions building between China and the United States, not to mention troubling developments in places such as North Korea and the Middle East, it’s likely that the world will be rocked by more military tension. That could further disrupt trade in agriculture, and in turn, intensify food insecurity.
(3) the impact of climate change and more **severe weather events**.....More severe drought, more devastating flooding, more torturous heat and more crippling cold: All are having an increased negative impact on agricultural production around the world.
Food is a >>necessity<<. Along with fresh drinking water and shelter, food is one of the few things humans absolutely require to live...........agriculture and food insecurity need to be addressed at least as urgently – if not even more so – than the other concerns mentioned here. It is a complex system in which agriculture is both affected by, and contributing to, the worries of geopolitics, inflation and climate change.
**Policy prescriptions** are also complex.....few industries have been as politically charged & motivated as agriculture. Depending on the region, the type of agriculture and the political backdrop, farmers have often been either kingmakers or pawns in the halls of >>legislative power<<.
>>Industrial policies<< to help nurture and sustain agricultural production are needed urgently, and not just for political expediency...... to increase domestic food production.......that sensible path forward might lead toward smaller, more environmentally sustainable and more local food production.......The world is a troubled place at the moment. So many issues and concerns are creating public anxiety...... And while these issues are serious, they will all be made far worse in a world of bare grocery shelves, food >>hoarding<< and empty stomachs.
]]>agriculture anxiety CEOs climate_change complex_systems compounded disruption extreme_weather_events famines food food_security geopolitics grocers hoarding House_of_Commons industrial_policies inflation interconnections invasions Loblaws necessity performative_theatrics policy_choices policy_positions Russia supermarkets Todd_Hirsch Ukraine legislative_powerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:cda611614f19/‘The only thing as American as apple pie is the oppression of black people’ | Financial Times2022-11-20T08:48:30+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/ff55f5e6-2ede-4e90-ad27-6980d7903568
jerryking>chefs<< “A global movement” is part of the plan......The GG squad (as they call themselves) has already achieved a lot......thrown dinners......developed merchandise including “Food is a Weapon” T-shirts....developed pantry items like waffle and pancake mix and kitchen appliances.....Occupying the spot where culinary art meets >>community activism<<, their core approach is about “using food as a medium to tell stories”.........the story of US >>race relations<< told through their deconstructed “Amerikkkan apple pie”...........“The only thing as American as apple pie is the oppression and brutalization of black people,” says Gray. “It was really just to spark conversation. The baseline is always deliciousness. Because if [a dish] doesn’t taste good who cares?”......That pie.....is one of the recipes in their debut cookbook Black Power Kitchen........Though “cookbook” hardly does it justice. “Manifesto” is the term Walker uses, while the foreword frames it as “a love song to the Bronx, but also a treatise and a travelogue, a history of Black people and food, and a challenge that is both culinary and cultural”.........The book is teeming with stories; many about the Bronx, where Gray and Walker grew up, and its diverse food culture [i.e. = "gastronomy"] ........The book makes the case for healthy eating as a vehicle for social empowerment, including among inmate..........Many of the recipes are >>plant based<<. As Serrao points out, black people throughout the African diaspora have long maintained plant-based diets.......the focus on plant-based eating, says Walker, is about prioritising “black futures [over] black history”.......“I see this as The Joy of Cooking meets the Bible,” says Gray. “AKA basic instructions before leaving earth.”
]]>African-Americans Bronx celebrations chefs collectives community_activism conversations cookbooks food foodies gastronomy plant-based race_relations recipes resistancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:30c1b5cdfec0/The High Cost Of Producing Cheap Food2022-06-28T09:17:18+00:00
https://nixolympia.com/the-high-cost-of-producing-cheap-food/
jerryking>externalities<< of cheap food should spend some time in America’s Midwestern farmland. I drove from Wisconsin to Missouri last week through hundreds of miles of corn and soybeans, the vast majority of which are grown not as food, but as animal feed.
It was easy to find fast food and red meat in the small towns I passed, but it was often difficult to find a decent supermarket with fresh fruits and vegetables. What a terrible irony that some of the richest farmlands in America are often where you’re most likely to find a >>“food desert,” << or a place where it’s challenging to find the components of a healthy diet. Nearly a century after the Great Depression, we are still farming as we did then, trying to produce cheap calories for a growing number of hungry people — and using vast amounts of fossil fuels — rather than in ways squeezing an overfed but undernourished population of better people. to provide nutrition. that can support the planet and local communities.
Consumers have become accustomed to cheap food. But it is a model that makes little sense from an environmental point of view and has led to enormous consolidation on the production side.
Remember that in the midst of the biggest rise in commodity prices since the 1970s, some farmers are still struggling to stay in the black. Research from Texas A&M University shows that two in three rice farmers will lose money this year as input costs, including fuel and fertilizer, rise even faster than commodity prices. Corn and soybean producers will make money, but not as much as you might think.
As Joe Outlaw, a professor at Texas A&M, put it in his testimony on the subject to the House Agricultural Subcommittee, consumer inflation may be 8.5 percent, but farmers have been hit by >>price hikes<< that are twice as high for seed. For other inputs, inflation is even higher. Herbicide is up 64% from 2021 to 2022, and nitrogen fertilizer, arguably the most important input of all, is up a whopping 133%. Corn, meanwhile, is up just 4.84% per bushel, and soybeans are up just over 7% year on year.
Farmers have tried to hedge and pot to explain these spikes, but they are being chased by large, highly concentrated companies that control much of the agricultural supply chain. As Outlaw explained, “Put simply, the input suppliers would not set a price until the producers” [meaning farmers] agreed to take delivery.”
As a result, many farmers, especially small and medium-sized ones, are cutting back on inputs this planting season, which in turn will hurt their future crops. Grain trading giants like Cargill are getting rich, as are many multinational energy companies. But the growers themselves are hardly in the dark.
All this speaks to a model that no longer works.[i.e. = "deteriorating systems"] Agriculture in America has been about cheap food for nearly a century. The New Deal encouraged the production of massive amounts of subsidized cereal grains to feed an influx of city dwellers. The Reagan Revolution encouraged further consolidation — think, for example, of four companies that control up to 85 percent of the meat market.
Democratic President Bill Clinton then passed the “Freedom to Farm” law, which eliminated any government management of supply and demand. This is one of the reasons farmers dumped milk after the pandemic; >>overproduction<< drives >>boom and bust<< cycles. It also makes it difficult to control food inflation now. While the US has strategic petroleum reserves, it has no grain reserves for domestic buyers, despite being one of the world’s largest producers.
The “pile high, sell cheap” paradigm assumes that simply lowering prices will create a healthy market. But it comes at a clear cost to the planet, our health and in some parts of the country to politics. You would think that a state like Missouri, for example, would be fertile ground for Democrats campaigning for a message of corporate greed. In fact, the state voted for Donald Trump in the last election — in part because the failed >>industrial agriculture<< model hasn’t been replaced by much else, leaving a disenchanted population ripe for the former president’s >>dog whistles<< and his kind of populism, with its empty promises of aid to the white working class.
Many neoliberal economists may shrug and note that farmers make up less than 2% of the workforce (the agricultural sector as a whole is just over 10%). They may even shrug at the fate of a state like Missouri because they tend to think of aggregate numbers, not individual people in so-called crossover states. But in the American >>electoral system<<, these kinds of states still matter – a lot. Together they can make the difference between winning or losing.
So, what should be done? It is right that the Biden administration is seeking concentration in agriculture and energy, as it is in other industries. Indeed, the >>discrepancy<< between input costs and raw material prices makes me think the White House has a point about driving up corporate prices. If the commerce department has its way, more nationwide broadband would also help. Ultimately, though, we’re going to have to >>rethink<< the whole way we farm in America. Like so much of our economic system, it was built for a different era.
]]>agriculture boom-to-bust Cargill cheap consolidation Democrats deteriorating_systems dog_whistles Donald_Trump electoral_systems externalities farming farmland food food_system fresh_produce grocery high-cost industrial_agriculture inflation Midwest Missouri New_Deal Rana_Foroohar Reagan_Revolution rethinking smallholders supermarkets supply_chains the_Great_Depression whites working-class food_deserts overproduction price_hikes discrepancieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bb6f6d86c30b/Those hands that fed us all2022-06-11T12:13:41+00:00
https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2022/06/10/those-hands-that-fed-us-all/
jerrykingCaribbean ethnic_security fear George_Lamming Indo-Caribbeans Indo-Guyanese pre-Independence race_relations agriculture culture indentured_laborers food communal_responsibility writershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d6f2ba548987/Building a Juneteenth Menu for the 21st Century, One Recipe at a Time2022-06-07T09:24:50+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/dining/juneteenth-food-menu-cookbook.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Food
jerrykingAfrican-Americans celebrations food Juneteenth menus recipes 21st._century Civil_War Emancipation rituals summertime traditionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a39666e15283/Power Corp. of Canada buys Lios Partners to create new agri-food private equity fund2022-04-01T02:02:57+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-power-corp-of-canada-buys-lios-partners-to-create-new-agri-food/
jerrykingagribusiness agriculture agritech Andrew_Willis buyouts clans financiers food foodservice food_tech investors LBOs mid-market Power_Corp. private_equity sustainabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b986e67a6092/Books that will make you love medieval literature - The Globe and Mail2022-03-26T22:52:42+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-medieval-literature-books-reading-list/
jerrykingbooks drinks food historical_fiction history medieval Middle_Ages reading_lists videogameshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:95138f28ed43/Inside Raffetto's, New York's Favorite Pasta Store2022-02-13T11:17:09+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/t-magazine/raffettos-pasta-new-york.html
jerrykingcuisine food Italian New_York_City pasta retailers grocery prepared_meals supermarkets family-owned_businesses family_business gourmet high-quality homemade mom-and-pop small_business multigenerationalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e918e5b422bf/Bronfman's firm, Quebec organizations partner on new fund for food industry2022-02-07T05:52:36+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/d38b715fafe24998e89c
jerrykingagribusiness food private_equity Quebechttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:45020af6d35f/Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, on being an investor that never lets go2021-11-06T18:56:04+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/80b621ce-73e5-4cc4-9779-a34db1e6d644
jerrykingangels Beyond_Meat bird-dogging Biz_Stone eclectic emerging_markets food food_tech investors long-term_greedy nondairy NotCo plant-based Pinterest portfolios public_markets Slack Square time_horizons Twitter scoutinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a403401f823f/TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star - The New York Times2021-05-25T13:32:01+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/dining/tiktok-food.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykingaccessibility algorithms millennials social_media up-and-comers virality celebrities content_creators cooking fans followers food Generation_Z mobile_applications online_communities personal_branding platforms relatability TikTok high-growth hitmakers entrepreneur cultural_individualismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c57c8b9b577a/The Profound Significance of ‘High on the Hog’ - The New York Times2021-05-19T05:57:55+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/dining/osayi-endolyn-high-on-the-hog.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=781067482&impression_id=d82875bf-b865-11eb-8881-6bc830623feb&index=7&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1®ion=footer&req_id=203767394&surface=most-popular-story&variant=0_bandit-all-surfaces
jerrykingfood homecoming Africa African-Americans cooking history restaurantshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e44b26faa728/Q2 2021 PitchBook Analyst Note: AI Opportunities in Foodtech | PitchBook2021-04-19T19:00:39+00:00
https://pitchbook.com/news/reports/q2-2021-pitchbook-analyst-note-ai-opportunities-in-foodtech
jerrykingartificial_intelligence food food_tech opportunitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fc35817525dd/How the KitKat went global2021-03-29T05:04:16+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/01e7edea5c06e9e5fca5
jerrykingbrands chocolate Coca-Cola confectionery_industry CPG creativity cultural_appropriation cultural_diversity cultural_exchanges cultural_exports cultural_identity cultural_signifiers deglobalization ethnography experimentation flavours fluidity food fusion Gillian_Tett globalization heterogeneity homegrown homogeneity interconnections Japan Japanese KitKat localization local_practices meaning Nestlé creative_appropriationhttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:760fd27d20fa/The Growers, Bakers and Beekeepers Embracing the Terroir of American Cities - The New York Times2021-03-28T19:57:02+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/t-magazine/food/terroir-american-cities.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykingcities food geographic_ingredient_branding urbanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:20df0e0dc9c7/Have prediabetes? Dietary changes can prevent Type 2 diabetes2021-03-22T12:21:04+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-have-prediabetes-dietary-changes-can-prevent-type-2-diabetes/
jerrykingdiabetes diets food Leslie_Beck preventionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b4afbe02a72f/How the KitKat went global2021-03-20T18:33:49+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/7ec44105-c123-4dc8-a262-e5747eae1e1a
jerrykinganthropologists chocolate CPG creativity Gillian_Tett KitKat Nestlé Scotland travel whisky 21st._century ambiguities anti-globalization backlash Big_Food bidirectional borders brands Coca-Cola confectionery_industry cultural_identity cultural_signifiers ethnography experimentation flavours fluidity food fusion globalization interconnections Japan Japanese meaning out-of-the-box teenagers tribes localization local_practices reinvention snacks deglobalization cultural_diversity cultural_exports heterogeneity homegrown homogeneity shifting_tastes Victorian cultural_exchanges in_the_knowhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:caa3a6c027e8/Food and agritech companies race to tap public markets | Financial Times2021-03-12T03:48:04+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/32861711-2de6-47af-965e-a5cc807eb24a
jerrykingagriculture agribusiness agritech food public_marketshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c18bcba89356/The Pandemic's Impact on Farming and Food2021-01-27T22:23:43+00:00
https://www.tvo.org/video/the-pandemics-impact-on-farming-and-food
jerrykingagriculture Covid-19 farming food fresh_produce high-impact pandemics Steve_Paikin supply_chains Sylvain_Charlebois TVOhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:aee3800421bf/The pandemic tech boom is reshaping our cities2021-01-12T21:47:51+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/40c3a928-6faf-4746-903d-3a114aac3878
jerrykingAmazon automation commercial_kitchens couriers dark_stores Deliveroo delivery_services DoorDash dotcom e-commerce food home-delivery infrastructure last_mile lockdown logistics Ocado on-demand restaurants Uber Uber_Eats warehouses virtual_restaurants freelancing fulfillment capital-intensity precarious cities parking electric_carshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ca692fd4adc2/Covid-19 has exposed the world’s fragile, complex food supply chains2020-10-05T03:45:20+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/65ad7504-b7de-4df4-8747-f669a2e541fe
jerrykingbooks Brexit climate_change Covid-19 e-commerce deforestation disease food fragility grains grocery pandemics pulses small_business start_ups supermarkets supply_chains United_Kingdom zoonotichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:99492208d933/Venture capital floods into food-tech2020-09-24T04:30:50+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/849393e2-b14f-43b6-966d-88fdf9d110ab
jerrykingagriculture agritech Atomico Beyond_Meat farming food Impossible_Foods investors pandemics plant-based post-coronavirus_era start_ups supply_chains valuations vc venture_capital food_tech Khosla_Ventureshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2ec4f35f86c0/Retail Chains Abandon Manhattan: ‘It’s Unsustainable’ - The New York Times2020-08-12T19:07:41+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/nyregion/nyc-economy-chain-stores.html?surface=most-popular&fellback=false&req_id=115684008&algo=top_conversion&imp_id=581455778&action=click&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykinganchor_tenants bankruptcies brands commercial_real_estate Covid-19 dining food drive-throughs foot_traffic hospitality landlords lockdown Manhattan New York_City pandemics restaurants retailers store_closingshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:74bd043cb0b3/General Mills Adds More Outsourcing Partners as It Aims to Meet Packaged-Food Demand2020-07-28T04:36:37+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/7e68987b771aec8f9a82
jerrykingBig_Food brands CPG food General_Mills large_companies supply_chains partnerships third-party rising_demandhttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d9d3d14e4a2e/Buying more ugly food: an imperfect waste solution?2020-07-18T21:55:48+00:00
https://foodrevolution.ft.com/videos/ugly-food/
jerrykingfood food_wastehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:dc256a2b079e/How a new approach to data is powering Feeding America’s fight against hunger | Tableau Software2020-07-14T15:56:08+00:00
https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2020/2/data-powering-feeding-america-fight-hunger
jerrykingdata data_driven food food_bankshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6f9838967cf8/How Covid-19 is attracting investors to US health ventures2020-07-08T14:44:19+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/1f74afc8-89fb-11ea-a109-483c62d17528
jerryking>Ageing populations<< in the developed world, advances in medical technology and expensive blockbuster drugs targeting cancer and other diseases have all drawn investor attention, both to listed companies and risky start-ups......companies with promising products linked to Covid-19 have soared, including biotech groups such as Gilead Sciences and Moderna, which have announced positive news on vaccine developments. Their popularity is fuelled by the overwhelming drive to tackle Covid-19, combined with a huge increase in government healthcare spending. Even before the pandemic, consultancy Deloitte forecast a 5 per cent annual increase in global health spending in the years to 2023...... wealthy clients are especially interested in backing start-ups creating new products that could become acquisition targets for big pharmaceutical groups. But some investors warn that new ventures such as vaccine developers are risky bets, and start-ups aimed at preventing diseases such as the new coronavirus have so far produced little financial return.....“Anti-infective drug development has been a terrible place to invest for about 10 years,” .......... Jim Simons, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, drew headlines in February for supporting the rival vaccine developer Codagenix through his family office Euclidean Capital........some investors see an approach focused narrowly on Covid-19 as too risky. A successful vaccine would quickly eliminate the need for most treatments, with fewer people catching the disease. “One of the risks of investing in this space is, how long-lived is the product?” says Roberts. “If you have a great vaccine, there’s probably not enough money in therapies on a go-forward basis because not many people get it.” Instead, Roberts and other healthcare investors have targeted companies benefiting from an expected broad increase in health-related spending they think the pandemic will bring.... just 12 % of Americans are considered metabolically healthy, creating a large market opportunity for HumanCo to supply better-quality products he says will improve wellbeing and lower future healthcare costs......Karp thinks HumanCo’s healthy foods can help prevent the chronic conditions that put people at greater risk of dying from coronavirus. “What’s clear is when you have a lot of body-wide systemic inflammation, your body’s ability to fight and heal is just inferior,”.....other venture capitalists are predicting online apps can upend the healthcare system. Under the broad moniker of “telehealth”, these companies do everything from delivering primary care over the internet to shipping medication directly to consumers......Some big names are backing the sector, notably Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, whose Bezos Expeditions family office has invested in ZocDoc, an online registry allowing users to book doctor appointments and remote check-ups. Many remote-healthcare providers have seen a surge in demand as authorities encourage patients to avoid hospitals and doctors’ surgeries.
.........Roman Health and Hims & Hers, two rival US start-ups that sell cosmetic and sexual health prescriptions online, have both looked to raise new funding since the epidemic broke out,.......Healthcare analysts say demand for virtual healthcare services, spurred by relaxed insurance rules enacted during the crisis, could outlast the pandemic. CB Insights analyst Marissa Schlueter points to policy changes that have driven adoption........wealthy clients can see the impact of their investments in healthcare companies on real-world problems. “Clearly the desire for change and the desire for financial returns are well aligned at the moment.”
]]>angels Big_Food crisis drugs family_office food healthcare high_net_worth Hims_&_Hers HumanCo impact_investing investors Jeff_Bezos pandemics pharmaceutical_industry risks Roman_Health Ron_Conway social_impact start_ups telemedicine Tiger21 vaccines vc venture_capital wake-up_calls COVID-19 James_Simons drug_development long-lived aging_populationshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b0ec3d729e55/Covid-19 crisis highlights supply chain vulnerability2020-06-25T02:57:07+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/d7a12d18-8313-11ea-b6e9-a94cffd1d9bf
jerrykingagriculture Big_Food brands COVID-19 crisis dairy disruption farming food food_chains food_safety food_security fragmentation fraud local lockdown meat Nestlé pandemics production_lines smallholders supply_chains tracking traceability Tyson viruses vulnerabilitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:aeddf815490b/Opinion: B.C.'s government has given itself powers over its food supply chain. That’s a big mistake - The Globe and Mail2020-06-22T20:25:27+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-bcs-government-has-given-itself-powers-over-its-food-supply-chain/
jerrykingfood supply_chains Sylvain_Charleboishttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1ee62fb292e3/Surplus Food Rescue Program - Canada.ca2020-06-18T04:34:49+00:00
https://www.canada.ca/en/agriculture-agri-food/news/2020/06/surplus-food-rescue-program.html
jerrykingCOVID-19 food charities food_pantries GoC hunger social_services food_bankshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ee66a54841d2/Global food supply chains are caught in a honey trap2019-12-23T20:23:18+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/5e9fb33a-174d-11ea-b869-0971bffac109
jerrykingblockchain counterfeits food fraud honey honeybees regulators supply_chainshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b63bfc41fc8f/‘There’s Always A Premium On Great Ideas’ Says General Mills’ 301 Inc. Venture Group Leader While Talking Innovation2019-12-06T10:46:32+00:00
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barbstuckey/2019/08/21/theres-always-a-premium-on-great-ideas-says-general-mills-301-inc-venture-group-leader-while-talking-innovation/#4b8f70372c04
jerrykingbeverages Big_Food brands corporate_investors food incubators innovationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:767a83f1327f/Dorm to Table: College Start-Ups Take Aim at Food Industry - The New York Times2019-08-28T23:36:07+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/business/college-food-entrepreneurs.html
jerrykingColleges_&_Universities start_ups food college_entrepreneurhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ea47cfae5784/Momofuku’s Secret Sauce: A 30-Year-Old C.E.O.2019-08-26T04:25:26+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/business/momofuku-ceo-marguerite-mariscal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ffood
jerryking>specialty foods<< emporium Zabar’s, Ms. Mariscal began her career at Momofuku in 2011, as a public relations and events intern. Over the years, she quietly became Mr. Chang’s closest collaborator and confidante, a largely unknown force shaping matters as varied as menu design, branding and business development. “She’s the only person I’ve ever felt comfortable giving complete carte blanche to, in terms of what Momofuku looks like and what it should be,” Mr. Chang said. He recalled suggesting to the company’s board that Ms. Mariscal be named C.E.O. almost four years ago, when she was 26. She finally assumed the role in April.
It’s not unusual for a chef like Mr. Chang to parlay cooking talent and charisma into restaurants, cookbooks and television shows — a formula pioneered by the likes of Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay and Rick Bayless in the 1990s. But chef-driven food brands of the scope and ambition that Mr. Chang and Ms. Mariscal envision for Momofuku, with dozens of locations and mainstream packaged food products, are harder to pull off.
Adding to the challenge is Momofuku’s particular identity, which revolves less around a distinct culinary tradition than an attitude of restless innovation, boundary pushing and spontaneity. A formulaic chain of steakhouses, Momofuku ain’t. Scaling that ethos requires a tightrope act: Create enough structure and continuity to stave off chaos, without destroying the brand’s animating spirit in the process.
]]>Asian brands branding business_development CEOs chefs food founders fusion growth high-standards interns investors kitchens leadership Momofuku restaurants scaling women workaholic organizational_structure restauranteurs special_sauce differentiation diversification commercial_kitchens anti-formulaic David_Chang detail-oriented specialty_foodshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:db2f12fd16d7/Crispy Baked Chicken Wings recipe | Epicurious.com2019-06-25T01:50:24+00:00
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/crispy-baked-chicken-wings-388693
jerrykingchicken food recipeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bb1fad1d8421/13 Foods That Lower Blood Pressure2019-06-11T13:56:06+00:00
https://www.healthline.com/health/foods-good-for-high-blood-pressure
jerrykingblood_pressure diets food howto mens'_healthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f4c9ff7e94a2/What Foods Can Disturb Your Sleep? - WSJ2019-06-05T08:02:10+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-foods-can-disturb-your-sleep-11559665074?mod=hp_listc_pos5#comments_sector
jerryking>serotonin<<, can help people fall asleep and stay asleep longer. The same goes for tart cherry juice, which is high in the sleep-wake-cycle regulating hormone >>melatonin<<.
A higher intake of fiber—fresh fruits and vegetables and whole grains—also has been shown to keep a person in slow-wave sleep for longer than usual, Dr. St-Onge says. But she’s not yet certain if eating any of these foods at a particular time of day has more impact. “I would assume it would be time-sensitive but this hasn’t been well-studied,” she says......Staying hydrated throughout the day, rather than gulping a lot of water right before bed, can help with restful sleep by diluting sugars, spices and salts—and preventing trips to the bathroom. ......Sticking to a fairly regular diet that’s high in fiber and low in saturated fats and simple sugars could contribute to sleep quality, and is associated with better overall health, Dr. St-Onge says. People who don’t sleep well, she notes, have lower attention spans, more memory lapses, worse cognitive and athletic performance and a higher risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
“Sleep is critical to every organ, and what we eat impacts every system in the body,” ]]>diets food sleep sleeplessness fruits cardiovascular diabetes disease attention_spans cognitive_decline hypertension hormones melatonin serotoninhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fbec762541ee/The winner’s wisdom of Silicon Valley Stoics2019-06-02T19:16:57+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/a5db81b64378a0af91a8
jerrykingadvice arduous exercise food friendships letters_to_the_editor mybestlife relationships Stoics living_in_the_moment vita_brevishttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:441df0dafe91/How to Get the Best From Your Immune System - Smarter Living Guides2019-06-02T10:58:05+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/smarterliving/improve-your-immune-system?fallback=0&recId=1M4U0wrmEZSCwBLlZl3Mpg02uZ0&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=ON&recAlloc=home-desks&geoCountry=CA&blockId=home-living-vi&imp_id=768593266&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage&redirect=true
jerryking>take stock<<, monitor, ** assess and judge potential threats **...if an invader is deemed a threat, the immune system has a narrow job: destroy the threat while doing as little collateral damage as possible. This response from the immune system is called “inflammation.” .....inflammation can feel like a stuffy nose, sore throat, tummy ache, fever, fatigue or headache. Yes, the symptoms of an immune response feel lousy, but you must suffer a little [i.e. = "hormetic approaches"] to keep the rest of your body healthy over the long term. And for your health and daily well-being, the key is to keep your immune system from underperforming or getting out of hand.
(B) IT’S ABOUT BALANCE
The immune system, often seen as a ruthless defender, seeks a steady state, not a police state.....a fiercely delicate combination of a bouncer and a ballet dancer. In fact, many molecules in this complex system are designed to send a signal that it should withdraw, pause an attack and stand down. Without these molecules, the state of inflammation that helps destroy threats would lay your body to waste..... Instead of boosting your immune system, you should be supporting it. And you should try to never undermine its delicate structures.
(C) The Immune System and the Beast
Let's take a moment to understand how (and why) our immune system acts in the face of a threat.....Our immune system took shape roughly 480 million years ago. All jawed vertebrates going back to the shark share its key properties. One property is priority setting.....an acute threat, e.g. a lion attack, the body’s network focuses wholly on that threat....the body goes into an emergency state known colloquially as “fight or flight.” During these periods, the body fires off powerful chemicals, including:
Epinephrine, which creates a kind of high for the body to subvert fatigue. Norepinephrine, which also helps to subvert fatigue.
Cortisol, which helps the body maintain essential functions, like blood flow.
When these hormones are at work, we can feel generally O.K.,but .... the release of these fight-or-flight hormones dampens our immune response. ...it causes the immune system to withdraw.
(D) WHY THE IMMUNE SYSTEM WITHDRAWS
During times of real, acute stress — like threat of being eaten by a lion — our bodies can ill afford to waste resources dealing with illness. Viruses and bacteria, while dangerous, pale in comparison to the gigantic beast with razor-sharp teeth chasing us across the savannah. In that moment, our body needs all our energy, non-essential functions be damned. Step one: survive lion. Step two: deal with head cold.
(E) Sleep Is a Magic Bullet [i.e = "panacea"]
Both you and your immune system need rest. ...If you don’t sleep, you will die — sooner. Studies show that lack of sleep leads to premature death through diseases like cancer and heart disease, and the reasons have everything to do with the immune system,
(F) SLEEP KEEPS YOUR SYSTEM IN BALANCE
This might sound contradictory. How can sleep can weaken the immune system, but also lead to inflammation?
Your immune system does not work as a binary system. It is not either on or off. It is made up of many molecules that send different signals, some urging inflammation and others restraining it. Your goal is to create an environment that doesn’t require your immune system to lose its natural balance.
Sleeplessness tips your immune system out of balance, hinders homeostasis, and turns the once elegant system into reckless pinballs of powerful molecules bouncing off your body’s bumper rails, and sometimes through them.
More concretely, it is a hard pill to swallow knowing there is no pill to swallow. The most important steps to support your immune system require discipline and habit.
(G) Exercise, Food and Meditation
Ward off illness with these three staples of a healthy body. ...the best things you can do for yourself when you’re sick are rest, eat well, don’t turn little things into lions, and remember that your immune system, if given your support, will likely do a darn good job of keeping you at harmony with the world.
]]>allergies bacteria books defensive_tactics exercise food habits homeostasis howto immune_system inflammation meditation mens'_health mindfulness priorities self-discipline sleep sleeplessness steady-state threats viruses binary_decisionmaking complex_systems immune_response equilibrium fight-or-flight hormetic_approaches hormones panaceas threat_assessment taking_stockhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:132fe23e2fab/Low on iron? Add these foods to your diet - The Globe and Mail2019-05-27T16:29:01+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/article-low-on-iron-add-these-foods-to-your-diet/
jerrykingdiets food iron Leslie_Beck nutritionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:799241662f9b/Betting on breakfast sandwiches: CPP invests $200-million in Canada’s Premium Brands, shares pop2019-05-22T13:34:05+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/streetwise/article-betting-on-breakfast-sandwiches-cpp-invests-200-million-in-canadas/
jerrykingbreakfasts CPPIB food foodservice grocery M&A mergers_&_acquisitions partnerships premium sandwiches shifting_tastes Starbucks supermarkets supply_chains Tim_Kiladze Wal-Mart roll_upshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8989d4cf3a8b/The Missing Piece in Big Food’s Innovation Puzzle2019-04-01T15:28:37+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-missing-piece-in-big-foods-innovation-puzzle-11554111585?mod=hp_featst_pos2
jerryking>ingredient<< companies like Tate & Lyle and Kerry Group work with global brands behind the scenes to come up with **new ideas** [i.e. = "fresh ideas"]. These businesses can spend two to three times more on innovation as a percentage of turnover than their biggest clients.
One part of their expertise is **overhauling**[i.e. = "renovations"] >>recipes<<. Ingredients companies can do everything from adding trendy probiotics to taking out excess sugar or gluten. Nestlé got a hand from Tate & Lyle to remove more sugar from its Nesquik range of flavored drinks, while Denmark’s Chr. Hansen helped Kraft Heinz switch from artificial to natural colors in the U.S. giant’s Macaroni & Cheese......Another service food suppliers offer is coming up with successful innovations to help revive sales. Nestlé’s ruby chocolate KitKat, which has become very popular in Asia, was actually created by U.S. cocoa producer Barry Callebaut, for example.
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See also, "For innovation success, do not follow the money"
07-Nov-2005 | Financial Times | By Michael Schrage
"There is no correlation [i.e. = "uncorrelated"] between the percentage of net revenue spent on R&D and the innovative capabilities of an organisation – none,"...Just ask General Motors. No company in the world has spent more on R&D over the past 25 years. Yet, somehow, GM's market share has declined....R&D productivity – not R&D investment – is the real challenge for global innovation. Innovation is not what innovators innovate, it is what **customers actually adopt**. Productivity here is not measured in patents granted but in new customers won [i.e. = " first time customers/visitors"] and existing customers profitably retained.]]>Big_Food brands ingredients innovation investors Kraft_Heinz large_companies Mondelez Nestlé R&D shifting_tastes start_ups foodservice Unilever flavours food ingredient_diversity health_foods healthy_lifestyles new_ideas customer_profitability Michael_Schrage recipes KitKat uncorrelated fresh_ideas signature_dishes customer_adoption looking_for_what's_missing first_time_customers/visitorshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:67c654a2299a/Amazon to Launch New Grocery-Store Business2019-03-04T10:28:20+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-launch-new-grocery-store-business-sources-say-11551461887?mod=hp_lead_pos4
jerrykingAmazon food grocery new_businesses rollouts supermarkets BOPIS bricks-and-mortar cashierless e-commerce home-delivery in-store Kroger physical_retail Wal-Mart Whole_Foodshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:13e9aa3e1278/Jeff Bezos’ family office invests in Chilean plant-based food start-up2019-03-04T10:17:59+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/69768826-3c04-11e9-b72b-2c7f526ca5d0
jerryking>meat-replacement<< company or a >>milk-replacement<< company,”.....The technology can be applied to all foods derived from animals,” he said, adding that if successful, the opportunity was there to create a major food company to compete with the likes of Nestlé and Danone......the approach of analysing the molecular structure of foods to engineer vegetarian versions of meats, cheeses and dairy products is similar to that of US-based start-up Just Inc, formerly known as Hampton Creek.....The company changed its name after a series of setbacks, including an alleged food safety issue that led to it losing distribution at retailer Target. Nevertheless, Just Inc is well-funded; it has said that it has raised $220m from investors.....Venture capital investors have been pouring money into start-ups to create plant-based or lab-grown alternatives to traditional meat and dairy. Impossible Foods — which is backed by Bill Gates and Alphabet’s GV, formerly Google Ventures, among others — has raised $387.5m,
]]>Chile Chileans Danone family_office flexitarian food Jeff_Bezos machine_learning Nestlé plant-based start_ups vegetarian vc venture_capital meat-replacement milk-replacementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:17670203b1c6/Gene editing: how agritech is fighting to shape the food we eat2019-02-10T14:33:54+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/74fb67b8-2933-11e9-a5ab-ff8ef2b976c7
jerrykingagriculture agribusiness bananas biologists Crispr farming food gene_editing fruits monocultures agritechhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:96772af29ba9/Perishable: An Exhibition2018-11-26T18:41:56+00:00
http://www.ediblegeography.com/perishable-an-exhibition/
jerrykingcold_storage food infrastructure logistics perishables exhibitions refrigerationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:0c4056db28e7/Food Distributors Make Changes as Costs Bite2018-11-23T18:07:39+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/food-distributors-make-changes-as-costs-bite-1542974400
jerrykingfoodservice Sysco streamlining intermediaries cold_storage agriculture cost-consciousness delivery_networks distribution distribution_centres farming food food_chains labour_shortages match-making Uber for-hirehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f1efd5e1daf0/The Golden Age of Restaurants in America2018-11-20T18:58:49+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/its-the-golden-age-of-restaurants-in-america/530955/
jerrykingrestaurants food casual_dining prepared_meals golden_age middle_classhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f1e5ce6340bd/Canada doomed to be branch plant for global tech giants unless Ottawa updates thinking, Balsillie warns2018-11-19T20:21:43+00:00
https://business.financialpost.com/technology/canada-falling-behind-in-the-knowledge-economy-due-to-outdated-thinking-balsillie#comments-area
jerrykingbranch_plants Canada digital_economy industrial_economy intangibles intellectual_property policymakers Jim_Balsillie property_rights protocols GoC FDI IP_retention talent wealth_effects agriculture data energy food mining technology Finland Israel Singapore Big_Tech software returns_to_intellectual_propertyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f98a576a5042/Edible Geography | Thinking Through Food2018-11-07T09:13:23+00:00
http://www.ediblegeography.com/
jerrykinggeography architecture blogs design foodhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:5f3c7000d404/CABINET // The Coldscape2018-11-07T08:51:01+00:00
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/47/twilley.php
jerrykingcold_storage refrigeration logistics foodhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c46fe2e06e5e/Future of food: inside agritech’s Silicon Valley | Financial Times2018-10-16T08:19:00+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/199cae4c-cbc6-11e8-b276-b9069bde0956
jerrykingdisruption food future innovation Holland investors Netherlands food_tech niches clusters agribusiness foodservice agritechhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7e5eb83fe0fe/Six Technologies That Could Shake the Food World - WSJ2018-10-03T18:04:53+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-technologies-that-could-shake-the-food-world-1538532480?mod=hp_featst_pos1
jerryking3-D technology food food_safety Big_Food entrepreneur robotics technological_revolutionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8abc4d0c82dd/Why David Chang Matters - The New York Times2018-09-16T03:26:17+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/dining/david-chang-kojin-toronto.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ffood
jerrykingDavid_Chang restauranteurs Momofuku restaurants Asian food fusionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d4f05a1ba5a7/Welcome | Partners in Food Solutions2018-08-13T23:29:38+00:00
https://www.partnersinfoodsolutions.com/
jerrykingfood sustainability developing_countries large_companies brands Africahttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4cbcff923061/Inside FreshDirect’s Big Bet to Win the Home-Delivery Fight - WSJ2018-07-20T16:37:58+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-food-fight-over-home-delivery-1531906200?mod=hp_minor_pos15
jerrykingalgorithms Amazon big_bets cold_storage distribution_centres distribution e-commerce food FreshDirect grocery home-delivery infrastructure Kroger logistics perishables retailers software supermarkets Target Wal-Mart warehouses fulfillment same-day piling_on last_mile shelf_life squeezing_out_costshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9ad0ea7ea461/A Year After Amazon Devoured Whole Foods, Rivals Are Pursuing Countermoves - WSJ2018-06-11T08:36:49+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-year-after-amazon-devoured-whole-foods-rivals-are-cooking-up-countermoves-1528628400?mod=trending_now_3
jerrykingAmazon Amazon_Prime contra-Amazon food grocery perishables supermarkets Whole_Foods BOPIS Dunnhumby Instacart data_collectionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ee3880da5bcd/Anthony Bourdain, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61 - The New York Times2018-06-08T12:19:20+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/business/media/anthony-bourdain-dead.html
jerrykingAnthony_Bourdain suicides obituaries travel food chefshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7bdd34428bea/Black Cancer Matters2018-03-20T12:41:27+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/well/live/black-cancer-matters.html
jerryking>African-American men<<, for example, are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer. Experts continue to debate why, even as many ascribe this scandalous phenomenon to inequalities in access to screening and treatment.
In women’s cancer, the mortality gap has widened. According to the 2016-18 report on Cancer Facts and Figures for African-Americans, “despite lower incidence rates for breast and uterine cancers, black women have death rates for these cancers that are 42% and 92% higher, respectively, than white women.” Investigators connect the ghastly numbers to the usual socioeconomic >>discrepancies<< but also to biological differences [i.e. = "genetics"] in the malignancies of >>black women<<.
With regard to breast cancer, is the mortality gap related to a greater percentage of black women than white women contending with an aggressive form of the disease that lacks estrogen receptors?
Dr. Otis Webb Brawley, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, rejects an explanation based on “biological difference,” pointing instead to dietary disparities....“The black-white gap in the onset of menstruation and body weight has dramatically widened, which means that the disease disparities will widen also.”
Disadvantaged Americans consume more calories and carbohydrates (i.e. = "nutrition"), “the sort of food that is available in poor areas of inner cities,”..... “Poverty is a carcinogen.”
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isn't just about race-- watch the trailer in which blacks and whites say the very same things about being poisoned by the Koch brothers' companies. This is a story about social justice and lack of sufficient government regulation of the enterprises owned by the "donor" class [i.e. = "c"] that owns most of our politicians. The most accurate predictor of people's life expectancy is their zip code [http://fortune.com/2017/05/08/us-life-expectancy-study/]. If you life in a polluted poisoned environment, you will suffer the consequences regardless of race.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++]]>mortality cancers African-Americans women racial_disparities prostate economically_disadvantaged racial_discrimination the_big_picture Charles_Koch health_inequalities chief_medical_officers food inner_cities nutrition Accomplisher_class political_campaign_financing black_men black_women propertied_class discrepancies polluted/poisoned_environment genetics lethalityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b9690f6e0b14/Droughts, storms and global demand tests America’s love affair with avocado - Lack of guac2018-02-26T14:26:22+00:00
https://www.economist.com/news/business/21735656-raising-production-meet-demand-will-be-tricky-droughts-storms-and-global-demand-tests
jerrykingagriculture economics food guacamole recipes avocados salsa_chutney_relish_pickle Chipotle price_hikes droughts extreme_weather_eventshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:42efcfc108db/Produce or Else: Wal-Mart and Kroger Get Tough With Food Suppliers on Delays2017-11-27T17:18:48+00:00
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wal-mart-kroger-impose-more-fines-on-suppliers-for-missed-deliveries-1511784000
jerryking>on time<<, or pay the price.
Food retailers want their suppliers to resolve the persistent problem of >>delayed<< or incomplete deliveries, which they say costs them millions of dollars a year in lost sales and overtime pay. Retailers used to give suppliers more leeway, since any number of factors [i.e. = "multifactorial"]—bad weather, a surge in demand, technology malfunctions—can foil deliveries of cereal, cheese, candy and other packaged goods from warehouses scattered around the country.
But now as traditional grocers battle Amazon.com Inc. and other online retailers that prioritize delivery speed, as well as price-cutting discounters, more are taking a strict line with suppliers, telling them >>on-time<< deliveries will translate directly into more sales and profits.
Delayed deliveries can leave holes on store shelves. Sales of some $75 billion a year are lost [i.e. = "forfeited sales"] because products are **out of stock** or unsalable for other reasons, according to the Food Marketing Institute, a trade organization. That is about 10% of annual grocery sales industry-wide at a time when sales growth is hard to come by. “It’s a massive opportunity from a financial and customer standpoint,” .....The country’s biggest grocers are leading the charge. >>Kroger<< is fining suppliers $500 for every order that is more than two days late to any of its 42 warehouses, and >>Wal-Mart<< Stores Inc. is charging suppliers monthly fines of 3% for deliveries that don’t arrive exactly on time, according to the retailers. They began issuing the fines in August........Wal-Mart has signaled it could do more than levy fines if problems persist. Charles Redfield, executive vice president of food for Wal-Mart U.S., told suppliers they could also lose >>shelf space<< if they don’t solve their delivery issues, according to people in attendance at a supplier meeting earlier this year. Retailers can threaten suppliers with loss of promotional space in stores, analysts said.....**Packaged-goods companies** are straining to keep up with the demands and remain in the good graces of retailers. They need GPS trackers and software to adjust routes in real time. Filling full orders fast is also challenging, since many manufacturers house items all over the country. That is particularly true for refrigerated items needing costly cold storage—which has fueled investments in more >>fulfillment<< centers......“Shipping complete orders on time is a completely reasonable request but turns out it’s harder than it sounds.”...]]>Wal-Mart Kroger grocery supermarkets supply_chains retailers delays food shipping Amazon cold_storage penalties delivery_times fulfillment CPG Kraft_Heinz P&G on-time shelf_space supply_chain_squeeze forfeited_sales stockouts ultimatums multifactorialhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:ae417879281c/Caribbean food seems to be the latest cultural commodity available for plunder2017-10-02T00:35:18+00:00
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/caribbean-food-cultural-commodity/article36449884/
jerryking>plunder<<......Dozens of amazing Caribbean restaurants have lived out their quiet >>struggle<< in Toronto for decades, dotting the landscape throughout the >>inner suburbs<< in >>Scarborough<<, >>Rexdale<<, and >>Eglinton West<<. There's Rap's, the jerk chicken and patty shop where my mother would take me for lunch after a haircut at Castries barbershop. There's Albert's, a landmark at the corner of St. Clair Avenue and Vaughan Road. And there's the world famous back-ah-yard restaurant The Real Jerk, owned by Ed and Lily Pottinger, who have dealt with the worst of neighbourhood gentrification and real estate discrimination that Toronto has to offer.....But the concept of an "amazing Jamaican restaurant in Toronto," proffered by a restaurateur who has visited my ancestral home a few times, and who intends to package the culture in a fashion true to the brand of a downtown gastro-chain doesn't fill me with hope.]]>Caribbean cuisine cultural_appropriation food exploitation appreciation restaurants restauranteurs inner_suburbs parochialism Andray_Domise plunder cultural_products Toronto neighborhood_institutions challenge_protest_resistance Eglinton_West group_identity Rexdale Scarborough struggleshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a518fb32c08e/I'll Have What Phil's Having | I'll Have What Phil's Having | PBS2017-08-19T01:19:27+00:00
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/what-phils-having/
jerrykingfood restaurants travelhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:84080bc5c613/A digital farmer’s market brings local foods to Ontarians - The Globe and Mail2017-07-14T18:01:29+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/a-digital-farmers-market-brings-local-foods-toontarians/article35687859/
jerrykinglocavore Ontario food Kitchener-Waterloo digital_strategies farminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:438e0b396c73/Minimum-wage battles are missing the future of food production - The Globe and Mail2017-06-06T19:50:43+00:00
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