{"id":1507,"date":"2010-07-30T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T09:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2010-07-30T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T09:57:36","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-30th-july-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/07\/30\/this-weeks-food-news-30th-july-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news | 30th July 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fast food chains drop calorie-counting scheme
\n<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a>Efforts to get fast food chains to display calorie counts were scuppered this week – reports the Independent<\/a> – as restaurants like Burger King and KFC failed to commit to the scheme. As obesity – sorry, fatness<\/a> – skyrockets, it seems sensible to remind diners that some Pizza Hut pizzas weigh in at a gut-splitting 2,656 calories.<\/p>\n

Watershed ban for junk food advertising
\n<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a>Health campaigners have called for a ban on advertising junk food before the watershed, reports the Telegraph<\/a>. The 2007 embargo on advertising crisps and sweeties during children’s programmes<\/a> appears to have had little effect. Under the new plan not only will advertising junk food be banned, but showing OB from Hollyoaks chowing down on a burger will also be outlawed.<\/p>\n

Squirrel for supper?<\/strong><\/span>
\n\"\"<\/a>Once a suppertime staple, the squirrel has fallen out of favour with diners. But Budgens is now stocking it, and has been getting a bit of an earful<\/a> from animal rights groups. The ‘wildlife massacre’ (honestly) is seen by Viva<\/a> as ‘inhumane’ and ‘irrational’. It is currently stocked at Budgens in Crouch End, North London.<\/p>\n

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Other food news this week:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* Washing chicken increases risk of food poisoning.<\/a>
\n* Blueberries are more popular than raspberries.<\/a>
\n* Beer sales are up for the first time in 4 years.<\/a>
\n* Cows given new feed for healthier milk.<\/a>
\n* Vertical farms – the future of urban food?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Recipe of the week
\n<\/strong><\/span>Aubergine fetishist and serial potty mouth<\/a> Hollow Legs’ Beef Rendang<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Blog of the week
\n<\/strong><\/span>Douglas Blyde’s interview with Metro<\/a>‘s enigmatic restaurant critic Marina O’Loughlin.<\/a><\/div>\n
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Video of the week
\n<\/strong><\/span>This kid rocks…<\/div>\n