Gulp
A week or so ago I posted an article by Mary Roach called the Marvels In Your Mouth about her trip to the Restaurant of the Future in Food Valley and how the mouth processes food. Well now she’s clearly on a press tour for her book Gulp and showed up on the Daily Show with John Stewart. Check it out - lots of discussion about cylindrical objects and how they work well for the body.
The Best Pig?
I posted a New York Times article a week or so ago about Carl Edgar Blake and his quest to make the perfect pig. He matched a Russian wild boar with a Chinese pig that he had read about on the interwebs - in 1821 King Wilhelm from Germany bred these two pigs and started winning contests with what was called a Swabian Hall pig. Now Carl is winning awards all over the country with his Iowan Swabian Hall pig.
Stephen Colbert holds an Iowan Swabian Hall piglet while eating prosciutto. Hysterical.
