Food Archive:
The Breakfast Index
5 Aug 2010Commodity prices are on the rise again. The Economist picked a pretty recent base year for this graph of wheat, orange juice, and coffee prices – a longer trend would have shown the big ups and downs of the past few years.
The Big Mac Index
25 Jul 2010Asia remains the cheapest place to enjoy a burger. China’s recent decision to increase the “flexibility” of the yuan has not made much difference yet. A Big Mac costs $1.95 in China at current exchange rates, against $3.73 in America. […] In other words the yuan is undervalued by 48%.
26 Infographics on Child Obesity
20 Jul 2010A contest from Good magazine produced a number of different designs. The winner will be announced next week.
World Wine
21 Jun 2010A collection of interactives from the FT:
Drill down maps of each region:
Grape varieties, and production stats:
What We Eat and Drink
12 May 2010Food spending by city, age, income, household. Related article.
50 Best Restaurants in the World
3 May 2010According to “Restaurant Magazine”. I’m not sure what mapping them accomplishes — besides making it obvious how few are in the USA.
Too Many Eco Labels?
3 May 2010A 2009 survey identified about 600 labels that denote some definition of "environmentally friendly" worldwide, including more than 80 on products sold in the United States.
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