Hacker News with Generative AI: Food

A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce (theguardian.com)
In the lush foothills of Damyang county, South Jeolla province, rows of earthenware jars stand under the Korean sky. Inside each clay vessel, a quiet transformation is taking place, one that has been occurring on this land for centuries.

South Korea, Food, Culture

193 points by n1b0m 2 days ago | 148 comments

Ricepedia (ricefact.com)
For every one billion people added to the world’s population, 100 million more tons of rice need to be produced each year. But the challenges facing rice production are great.

Food, Agriculture, Population Growth

4 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Roast My Dish – AI roasts your food photos with brutal honesty (roastmydish.online)
Watch your dish get roasted by our AI chef

AI, Food, Humor, Creative Projects, Websites

17 points by romeumaleiane 7 days ago | 9 comments

What 200 Calories of Various Foods Looks Like (2013) (twistedsifter.com)
We all know some foods have a much higher Calorie content than others, but how many of us know what that difference actually looks like?

Food, Nutrition, Visualizations, Health

34 points by Tomte 7 days ago | 8 comments

Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat (ourworldindata.org)
If you want a lower-carbon diet, eating less meat is nearly always better than eating the most sustainable meat.

Environment, Food, Sustainability, Climate Change

25 points by sohkamyung 10 days ago | 60 comments

How to buy a chicken sandwich in Shenzhen: China's $100B livestream sales sector (restofworld.org)
Whenever Lu Yanfei wants to eat American fast food, she opens Douyin, China’s TikTok, and switches to the livestreaming channel of McDonald’s China. Onscreen, a fast-talking host hawks fries, sundaes, and chicken sandwiches to hundreds of viewers at a time. “How many babes want to eat this?” a young woman with pigtails asked enthusiastically during a show in April, while waving a plastic model of a vanilla ice cream cone.

E-commerce, China, Food, Social Media

8 points by Geekette 10 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Put macros.menu/ in front of any restaurant menu URL (macros.menu)

Web Development, Tools, Restaurants, Food

11 points by Sawpaw19 10 days ago | 0 comments

Clearly Incorrect (quarter--mile.com)
Gordon Ramsay is a funny guy. Sometimes, this humor is intentional. Most of the time it’s not. Four years ago, he posted a grilled cheese sandwich recipe video in which he somehow managed to burn the edges of the bread without (seemingly) even warming up the cheese inside. It’s one of the worst grilled cheeses I have ever seen.

Food, Humor, Cooking

40 points by surprisetalk 12 days ago | 26 comments

The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine (2021) (atlasobscura.com)
It’s a common sight in tropical places from Nigeria to India to the Philippines.

Beverages, Food, Culture, Travel

17 points by prmph 13 days ago | 19 comments

Cinnamon could interact with some prescription medication according to new study (cnn.com)

Health, Pharmaceuticals, Food, Science

10 points by Bender 14 days ago | 0 comments

With Shake Shack in First Class, Airline Food Is No Longer a Joke (bloomberg.com)
By all accounts, airlines have no business serving cheeseburgers on flights.

Airline Industry, Food, Travel

7 points by JumpCrisscross 18 days ago | 1 comments

Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task' (cnn.com)

Food, Linguistics, Culture, China, Translation

6 points by asplake 24 days ago | 1 comments

Once Shunned by Japanese Consumers, Korean Rice Now Flies Off the Shelves (nytimes.com)
Japanese consumers have historically steered clear of foreign rice. But facing high prices, they rushed last week to buy the first South Korean imports to Japan in decades, clearing the shelves within days, South Korean officials said.

Food, Japan, South Korea, Economics, Consumer Behavior

7 points by bookofjoe 25 days ago | 1 comments

Ultra-processed foods may be linked to early death (bbc.com)
People who eat lots of ultra-processed foods (UPF) may be at greater risk of dying early, a study in eight countries including the UK and the US suggests.

Food, Health, Research, Mortality

8 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 0 comments

Daily peanut exposure can desensitise allergic adults, study suggests (theguardian.com)
Adults with severe peanut allergies can be desensitised by daily exposure, according to the first clinical trial of its kind.

Health, Allergies, Food, Science, Research

11 points by ljf 29 days ago | 2 comments

US chocolate prices surge amid soaring cocoa costs and tariffs (theguardian.com)
For many Americans celebrating Easter, the holiday is incomplete without chocolate: chocolate bunnies and eggs, bars tucked into Easter baskets, candy hidden in plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts.

Economy, Food, Chocolate, Tariffs

11 points by n1b0m 34 days ago | 0 comments

Fewer beans = great coffee if you get the pour height right (arstechnica.com)
Pour-over coffee is made by flowing a strong, laminar water jet through a bed of ground coffee beans.

Coffee, Science, Food, Brewing

9 points by PaulHoule 36 days ago | 3 comments

Australian PM weighs in after Toronto café ordered to remove Vegemite (thestar.com)

Australia, Food, International News, Culture

13 points by ranit 37 days ago | 5 comments

A Passion for Fruit (archaeology.org)

Archaeology, History, Food

16 points by diodorus 39 days ago | 1 comments

Homemade Falafel Recipe (seriouseats.com)
Crisp on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside, and packed with herb and spice flavor.

Food, Recipes

6 points by Tomte 39 days ago | 0 comments

How refrigeration changed our food (nytimes.com)
In “Frostbite,” an exploration of the vast system known as the cold chain, the journalist Nicola Twilley follows the banana through a “seamless network of thermal control.”

Food, Technology, History, Science

76 points by whocansay 40 days ago | 85 comments

Nobu Matsuhisa: 'I'd watch my mentor making sushi and copy him under the table' (theguardian.com)
The chef and restaurateur, 76, shares his boyhood inspiration, losing everything in a fire, and saying no to Robert De Niro.

Food, Interviews, Restaurant Industry, Biography

6 points by andsoitis 41 days ago | 0 comments

Hunger shifts attention towards less healthy food options, study finds (medicalxpress.com)
New research suggests that when people are hungry, they focus more on the tastiness of food and tend to ignore nutritional information, which may contribute to poor dietary decisions.

Nutrition, Psychology, Food, Health, Research

67 points by PaulHoule 41 days ago | 19 comments

The Ten 'Commandments' of Sushi. (2015) (medium.com)
My first lunch at Yajima Sushi, in Tokyo, felt more like a kidnapping.

Food, Japan, Culture

11 points by Tomte 41 days ago | 5 comments

Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese? (cheeseprofessor.com)
Behind the approximately 4 million wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano produced annually, there is a tiny team of 24 battitori responsible for ensuring the quality of each one.

Food, Cheesemaking, Italy

210 points by speckx 43 days ago | 156 comments

Yakult Lady (wikipedia.org)
A Yakult lady (ヤクルトレディー; Yakuruto redi-), also known as an Yakult auntie (ヤクルトおばさん; Yakuruto obasan),[1] is a woman who sells Yakult products as an employee or delivers the products door to door[2] to individuals at their homes.

Japan, Sales, Culture, Food, Beverages

3 points by nyodeneD 44 days ago | 2 comments

The Original Girl Scout Cookie Recipe from 1922 [video] (youtube.com)

Food, History, Girl Scouts, Video

5 points by gmays 46 days ago | 0 comments

Choviva: Chocolate replacement with less CO2 emissions (choviva.com)
We’ve reinvented chocolate by cutting CO₂ - emissions

Food, Sustainability, Climate Change, Innovation

23 points by bill38 46 days ago | 65 comments

Protein is being added to yoghurt, bread, coffee – is it beneficial? (theconversation.com)
Protein intake dominates fitness advice. Whether you want to build muscle, improve your fitness or watch your weight, the common advice handed out by everyone from fitness influencers to doctors is that we need more protein.