Hotties and Jokes About the Bible

And other things you'll enjoy and/or learn from

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This week’s link list got so long I decided not to include an original article. I do what I want! (And then second-guess myself. Then third-guess.)

Some Food Reading & Watching:

• The Biblical argument against lavender in food and drink. 😏 (video)

• Twenty-three years as a food writer in a small city sounds … pretty great, actually.

• Former child slaves working for Nestle and Cargill’s cacao suppliers can’t sue the companies in the U.S., because the crimes did not occur in the U.S. “Nestle and Cargill have said they have taken steps to combat child slavery and have denied any wrongdoing.” Well, WHICH IS IT.

Ma$on @FirstGentleman

About 600,000 Africans were enslaved in Mexico. The food they ate and drank have become Mexican staples.

• The Subway tuna drama continues. Well, it actually might not be a big deal, in the scheme of things.

  

• The caption says “I now feel very strongly about how Chinese Food needs to be best friends with Italian Food.” I thought it was already! (Excellent dinner idea therein. Also this hunk is bonkers hot. (video)

Chris Crowley @chrisecrowley

new york is ending to-go cocktails... cancel culture is real

• ADA regulations for restaurants: hey, let’s take them seriously now!

• Thinking about climate change (oh lord, there is no AC in my building and when I moved in 10 years ago, no one had window units. Now every tenant has at least one) and how this type of program may become an absolute necessity in the agricultural industry.

• A restaurant that made it work for 14 months, but just can’t do it anymore.

• Two totally different but absolutely related stories about delivery drivers: the new laws in Spain that will change the apps’ business model, and the life of the San Francisco driver whose children were kidnapped as they accompanied him on his deliveries. (They got home safe!)

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