For The Love of Food

Welcome to Friday’s (err…. Saturday’s) For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.

Sorry for the delay, I’m still traveling and had to read through two weeks of articles. On the plus side there’s GREAT stuff in here and it’s the weekend.

This week new low-carb BS, a life-changing essay about mammoths (really), and how to change your food preferences.

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Links of the week

• Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think <<I’m a firm believer that the first step toward better health is understanding your own behavior. This is one of the most captivating essays I have read on the limiting beliefs that shape us, how to recognize them, and how to reign them in. My challenge to you is to identify how this applies to food and health behavior. Please leave insights in the comments. (Wait But Why)
• What I Learned By Actually Reading That Low-Carb Is Best Study <<While I didn’t have time to go read the entire new and controversial pro-low-carb study, I read just about every relevant commentary about it. Yoni’s was the only one that asked the questions I would have asked. (Weighty Matters)
• Train Your Brain to Choose Fruit Salad Over French Fries <<An interesting (but small) new study gives evidence for what many foodists already know, that it’s possible to learn to love healthier foods (though for the record I still think whole wheat pasta is nasty). Not surprisingly, the opposite also appears to be true. (Medline; ScienceDaily)
• How to Build a New Habit: This is Your Strategy Guide <<Excellent breakdown of how to build and break habits. (James Clear)
• The Lies Your Mind Tells You to Prevent Life Changes <<More on limiting beliefs and how to break them. I think we can all relate to these. (Zen Habits)
• We’re all in the clean-plate club, researchers conclude <<Another study demonstrating the impact of environmental influences on how much we eat. Essentially: anything that is put in front of us. (LA Times)
• Why We Eat: Hunger, Cravings, Other People <<Mark Sisson wrote up a series of articles on some of the basic science behind why we make the food choices we make. Not sure if he still plans to include one on environmental factors, but these first three are worth a skim. (Mark’s Daily Apple)
• Good News for Seafood Lovers <<Thanks to conservation efforts an unprecedented number of species are back on the “Best Choice” or “Good Alternative” list on Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch. (Politics of the Plate)
• How Summer Produce Can Inspire an Entire Meal <<I love this story, and it goes to show you the power (and delight) of learning to cook without recipes. (The Kitchn)
• Roasted Eggplant “Salsa” <<Cathy Erway decided to pair my two favorite late summer foods together. Is there a Nobel Prize for food yet? Because there should be. (Not Eating Out in New York)

What inspired you this week?