A new essay and some new stories about diet optimization.

A Computer Scientist on Why Diet Optimization Culture Is Destined to Fail

With so much uncertainty, Stigler thought it was inappropriate for the government to recommend what people should eat at all. He warned that these recommendations, with their appeals to scientific expertise, might be mistaken for rules. The United States was home to people with different preferences, practices, and beliefs, and a uniform recommendation couldn’t satisfy all of them. Indeed, recent fights over the food pyramid show that government recommendations of what to eat remain fraught.

via: https://www.argmin.net/p/dietary-shapes

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

happy make a terrible comic day. i decided to try making a comic using an inkwell pen for the first time with no sketch on a subject that’s boring to everyone except me

How to make iced coffee correctly. Crazy good given that it was completely free-handed.

Eating out is dead LOL.

An excerpt from the book with the same title.

As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to reimagine currencies of exchange?

We have some difficult news to share: Clover will be closing our doors this week. Thursday, May 28th will be our final day of restaurant service and meal box delivery.

RIP, Aaliyah. RIP…

via: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/03/30/links-for-march-2026/

see: https://microwavecookingforone.com/

This video is a recipe for Addictive Everything Sauce!In this video, discover how to make an incredibly versatile Japanese all-purpose sauce in just 5 minute…

Bro… I hate war, I hate checkoffs, I hate lobbying, I hate buybacks, I hate Obama,I hate Trump, I hate non-profits. Ugh. Lactose intolerants, rise up.

Hypothesis:

Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.

Thus making prices go up by forcing teams to scale up their operations and take up more space. The United States is capable of restaurants where quantity of sales, rather than quality, makes a business profitable—see the automat and the diner—but this kind of business has faded away in recent years.

South Park S18E02.

Are we in hell yet?

see: https://realfood.gov/

The Coca Cola secret formula is one of the best kept secrets in recent history…and I hate secrets. So, naturally, I deciphered it with the help of mass spectrometry and created a chemically-identical replica!

Based.