Knitted food for your weekend fare (DiceFood.com)

Knitted food for your weekend fare

Filed under: On the Blogs, Artisan Foods

If you’re into knitting, either as a participant or fan, and you like food, then you’ll love the work of Ed Bing Lee. Though I’m not quite sure why Inventor Spot did a post on this knitting artist, I’m glad they brought him to my attention. Mr. Lee’s delectables series includes a knitted hamburger, ice cream cone, and key lime pie, among other things.

If you knit food, or just have some images you’d like to share, we always love to see that kind of thing here at Slashfood. Happy weekend!

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The Dreyer’s, as well as its sister brand Edy’s, has launched a series of limited edition, light ice creams under the “American Idol” co-brand.

The five new flavors is trying to raise awareness of the brands’ slow-churned light ice cream line.

Flavors include…

• Cheesecake Diva - creamy cheesecake light ice cream, decadent brownie bites with fudge swirls.
• Cookies N Dreamz - chocolate light ice cream filled with crunchy pieces of chocolate cookie.
• Mint Karaoke Cookie - mint light ice cream with chocolate cookies.
• Most Orange-inal - creamy vanilla light ice cream with swirls of orange sorbet
• One Split Wonder - rich banana light ice cream with swirls of fruit and fudge

To help promote the limited edition flavor line, the two American Idol Season Six finalists Melinda Doolittle and Chris Richardson will be traveling around the country on a 20-city U.S. tour to eat the new ice cream in front of adoring fans, and tell them all how much they love eating it.

For more information on the American Idol ice cream, visit…
http://dreyers.slowchurned.com/idol/
Source: www.junkfoodblog.com

Record corn prices raise other food costs

Filed under: Grains, Dairy, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Pork, Eggs, Meat

nationwide increase in food prices across the board. Corn and soy prices are increasing dramatically which means other foods that depend upon them are increasing as well. Expect to see many grocery items like meats, cheese, eggs, milk, oil, etc. increase in price.

I spent summers as a child in the corn fields of Iowa, many of which have become lakes, with the gently hills small islands. Now many of these farmers are calling it quits, selling off the farms and getting out of the business. Animals are being sold off, which means a short term meat glut, but a long term shortage. Don’t expect prices to go down from the quick influx of meat, because the long term shortage is so visible that prices have to start reacting now.

This is going to have such long term effects that you can expect your Holiday turkeys and hams to cost quite a bit more than last year, and possibly even more the year after that.

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