Word: peanuts
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...Mart shoppers, meet Xu Yaqing. She's a 62-year-old retiree who lives on a fixed income in Beijing. Xu and her husband get by on $263 a month, and lately, the couple's monthly pensions haven't been enough. The price of the peanut oil that Xu cooks with has doubled in the past few months, and soaring costs for other staples have forced them to cut back on milk and to substitute bean curd for meat. They're not starving. But they're scared. "Prices are going up so much and so quickly," Xu complains...
...introduced IHOP-loving Americans to edamame, the lightly salted, boiled Japanese soybeans now found on McDonald's menus (in salads, no less). In the last two decades chefs have helped make Americans savvier than ever about food. Ordinary grocery stores are now selling their own brands of organic peanut butter and pasta sauce. Then, consider today's range of food media - from blogs to magazines to television networks promoting Wolfgang Puck wannabes. "You see the food we're making trickling down to the masses. The quality of the food in grocery stores is extraordinary - that's the impact we have...
...filming wasn’t without obstacles. Koenigs’s partner needed persuading to make the video, saying he was initially “repulsed” by the idea. The biggest challenge was after the fact, as filming left “chunky peanut butter on the floor and jelly in the sofa and chunky peanut butter in the shower...
Koenigs and his friend made a cooking show/comedy sketch, accessible from HRTV.org and Youtube.com, outlining his recipe for viewers at home. The directions: smear armpits with chunky peanut butter, rub jelly through hair, and scrub off with slices of bread. Then put those two slices together for an “avant garde PB&J sandwich,” Koenings’s companion explains. Both chefs ate their creations, and Koenigs had a taste of both...
...There is a bloodlust out there. People want us to eviscerate her, if for nothing else than the sport of it," says Axelrod. "But how we draw the distinction is important, and we're not going to get pushed into gratuitous exchanges to satisfy the peanut-gallery pundits...