My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social Someone has been sticking up invitations to a rice cake eating competition on pedestrian crossings around Sheffield. This is my nomination for Event Of The Year. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/the...

This is great, eye-opening and very funny by @caitlinecassidy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Plant-based mince and meatballs now on average 33% cheaper at Tesco than the meat versions

People get weird about buying pre-cut produce, or rotisserie chickens, or frozen veggies but I think of it like this: most chefs have prep cooks doing that stuff for them-- washing and cutting and blanching and par cooking. It saves time and labor to have someone else do it, so go for it.

in which i have a mental breakdown over the origins of mayonnaise, aka, how i got lost in the sauce buttondown.com/theswordandt...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Today I am cooking one of my favourite dishes! Pasta a la all-the-stuff-in-my-fridge-that-is-about-to-expire-if-I-don't-use-it-soon.

Exactly one year ago today:

We found out several things during the wait. 1) target uses AI for theft prevention which often falsely targets people. 2) they purposly don't notify you if you don't scan all items in a self checkout lane. 3) if u hit the ok button on the self checkout and you miss an item they say thats stealing

The section that the Guardian censored… By Prof Judith Butler

Flour comes from a plant, sugar comes from a plant, and chocolate comes from a plant. So, basically a chocolate chip cookie is a salad. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

a clear toaster so you can see how toast the toast is

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

the UK is set to change planning rules to make it easier to develop intensive livestock farms across the country following a lobbying campaign by Big Chicken my new investigation for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Important news ... Painting eyes on takeaway boxes can stop gulls stealing chips, study shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

Not now unstoppable mushroom we’re busy here

The nation's most important questions

i hope folks pay attention to what's going on with Bushwick City Farm in Brooklyn - this space was a trash-filled lot before activists broke in 15 years ago and built a community farm that feeds hundreds of families every year. now it's been padlocked by the landowner after years of bureaucratic bs

My first journal article has been published! It outlines the novel methods I used to study household food waste. Turns out noone has asked people to put Post-It notes in their fridges before? Weird Thanks to Area for a great publishing experience and the reviewers for their supportive comments!

A joyful snow leopard surprise to brighten your day. 🫶 Footage from wildlife monitoring in the Annanba Wild Camel National Nature Reserve in China. 📹

As a single person, Wrap's suggestion to sell stuff loose is fundamental to reducing home waste. At Tesco, you cannot buy a single green pepper. You have to buy three: one of each colour. One red onion? Nope, you've got to buy three. Waste is built into their model zerowasteeurope.eu/wp-content/u...

And less waste 🙏

Had a great time presenting my research at a public seminar on food waste yesterday, including the fridge map! I argue that preventing food waste is a kind of domestic labour, and the fridge makes it harder because its design restricts accessibility at the back of shelves and in the veg drawer

It really gets my goat when people tell me I may not like AI but it’s here to stay & there’s nothing we can do about it. Yes there is! We don’t have to bow down to every corporate demand! We can fight, regulate, use the law. We can & must ensure this tech benefits humanity & doesn’t dismantle it.

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

It's annoying how there has been so much 'shrinkflation' of 'price is same, the pot is a different size' other than any of the ingredients where it would help curb food waste.

With that 2% stat, it's worth noting that retailers don't legally have to measure or report their food waste. They also profit from people wasting food at home. There's an estimate that tesco profits £4bn a year from their customers' food waste. So it's hard to imagine why progress has slowed...

AI rolled out by supermarkets to improve forecasting data has made a “nightmarish” situation even worse Suppliers tell Groceries Code Adjudicator it is leading to huge levels of #foodwaste

📰 Stone Age skeletons from Hungary suggest Neolithic gender roles were fluid, with some individuals buried with material culture and skeletal changes associated with the opposite sex. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

‘We’ll run out of food this week’: how attacks on Iran leave Gaza under siege

"i'm not only trapped in a warzone but im going to get fat again' is an actual real life line in this piece www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It's no exaggeration to say that this, the news that stinkbug eggs look exactly like a hape of creamy pints, is one of the most impactful things that's ever happened in the history of Irish posting. A dazzling event. A nuclear level revelation.

It’s a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths. This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.

No better metaphor for what association with Trump gets you than the guys who won Team USA's first gold medal since 1980 being forever remembered as the sad losers who were served cold McDonald's and bottled water at a lunch Trump didn't even bother showing up to.

Also illustrates the importance of reducing #foodwaste in the supply chain. We won't be so fussy about "wonky" veg when there is no veg www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...

furious at how absolutely shambolic culinary history is. it's wild that there are two completely divergent origin stories for the sloppy joe sandwich and apparently no documentary evidence for either!!!!

I found similar data for the UK for my blog about meat and food waste - "There is also an argument to be made about meat and dairy being a ‘waste’ of land" foodwastestories.com/2026/02/03/f...

9 million pounds of potatoes. 0 waste. 🥔🇩🇪 In 2026, Germany’s "Kartoffel-Flut" saw 4,000 tons of surplus spuds saved from landfills and given to the public. A massive win for community logistics. 🏛️📈 Full Story: 🔗 frontorb.com/germany-dona... #Germany #FoodWaste #FrontOrb

Happy #pancakeday ! Cardamom and pistachio pancakes with honey lime syrup, recipe by Noor Marud 🥞

UK government planning a new and “ambitious” #foodwaste strategy It comes amid growing anger over the huge levels of waste from households and the supply chain

Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

This is also so silly because everyone who buys and consumes it is still going to call it "milk"? It's like when Tupperware copyrighted their name but we all still call any random food containers "tupperware"

Chocolate Tube Slime Mold. #Newfoundland, Canada. The slime mold is about 3cm high. #myxomycete #fungifriends

Clear (and distressing) example of animal waste. 18 billion animals were found to be wasted every year, but I bet things like this weren't always counted. As I mention in the blog, animal mortalities on farms are excluded from most global measurements foodwastestories.com/2026/02/03/f...