links for 2006-07-29

Watching Beirut Die - Antony Bourdain, Salon.com [1]

Top class first-person journalism. Requires going through the huge ad thing but is well worth it.

(tags: bourdain [2] beirut [3] politics [4]))
Chicago Tribune picks the best 50 magazines [5]

All English of course and mostly American. I list it here because they mention several food magazines. Plus my favorites (non-food), Dwell and (wow) Vogue Knitting!

(tags: magazines [6])
Reason: The Anti-Pleasure Principle: The "food police" and the pseudoscience of self-denial [7]

An interesting article from 2003 about the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), one of the leading food-police groups in the U.S.

(tags: foodpolice [8] cspi [9] politics [4])

Links:
[1] http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07/28/bourdain_beirut/index.html
[2] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/bourdain
[3] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/beirut
[4] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/politics
[5] http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0606140373jun15,1,4243630.story?page=1&cset=true&ctrack=1
[6] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/magazines
[7] http://reason.com/0307/fe.js.the.shtml
[8] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/foodpolice
[9] http://del.icio.us/justhungry/cspi