links: food

“Miracle Fruit,” America’s Oldest New Food Trend at Gawker. I was really hoping this story was going to reveal that the Victorians threw scandalous miracle fruit parties, but no. Gawker means this goes all the way back to 2007. I would like to point out that I was one year off on my Mircale Fruit party invitation, I said 2008. Oops.

How to Make a Good Salad Without Dumb Leaves – The Awl. “So let us forgo leaves. Let us not require our salads to rely on our least-favorite ingredient. Let us shape our own salad destiny.”

· comments [3] · 06-5-2014 · categories:food · links ·

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1 bravecanary // Jun 5, 2014 at 3:13 pm

I have a bottomless supply of fresh miracle berries. It makes every party awesomer.
2 megan // Jun 5, 2014 at 3:18 pm

It’s so much fun to introduce these to people who haven’t yet heard of them. And fresh berries! I have the envy!
3 whitney // Jun 6, 2014 at 8:42 am

I love that Awl article about salad! I’m now adding a bunch of the recipes linked in there to Pinterest…

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