How to solve world hunger with pizza
The idea of a universal food synthesizer sounds like something straight out of the Jetsons or Star Trek, but thanks to a $125,000 grant from NASA, a 3-D food printer may become a reality.
Anjan Contractor, a senior mechanical engineer at Systems and Materials Research Corporation, is already working on bringing the idea to fruition.
NASA’s interested because storing the various ingredients as a power greatly extends their shelf life for lengthy travel through space, but Contractor wants to keep all of the recipes open source, so the general public could eventually benefit as well.
So how will the pizza be made?
Pizza will be one of the first items printed because of its natural layers of ingredients. First, a layer of dough will be printed and baked at the same time using a heated plate at the bottom of the printer. A layer of tomato base will follow — made of powder, water and oil — then a protein layer will top the pizza.
Read more over at the Daily Dish.
Photo: Cheryl A. Guerrero / Glendale News Press
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Defense Distributed, why couldn’t you have been “Dough Distributed”?
In case you’re looking to figure out which delivery service to order your next pizza from, GrubHub (Chicago-style) and Seamless (New York-style) have made it easy for you: The two online-delivery companies have merged into one. Celebrate by ordering out. (photo by jetalone/Flickr)
In honor of Herman Cain getting hired as a Fox News talking head, here’s a picture of a pizza. (photo by Bitman/Flickr)
“Papa” John Schnatter, Papa John’s founder and CEO, is back in the headlines once more for his assertion that there’s no way on God’s green Earth he can afford to provide health care for a portion of his employees, as mandated by the Affordable Care Act. Now, Schnatter hasn’t been hurting for…
On the Papa John’s tip, Meg sends along 15 cents in a letter to the man himself. Be sure to click for more.
1) The pizza is terrible. 2) The guy above wants to raise prices and cut worker hours as a result of Obamacare. 3) They mass-text-spammed people in the middle of the night, leading to a $250 million class-action lawsuit. 4) “Papa John” Schnatter owns this house. 5) They don’t have lava cakes. 6) Namesake competitor Jimmy John’s is bringing back sprouts soon, and they deliver, too. (EDIT: Though, as it turns out, #2 applies to Jimmy John as well.)
It’s worse to imagine a world with Obama getting a second term than it is to imagine a world without pizza. Because with Obama in a second term, there will be no pizza. For anyone.Herman Cain • Offering up a slice of knowledge with extra cheese during a recent interview in Time Magazine.
Chuck E. Cheese — the rodent — is getting a makeover
I remember begging my mom to take me to ShowBiz Pizza Place when I was a kid. I guess they’ve got to do something to get people in the doors these days.
When I was a kid, the pizza was enough. We didn’t need no fancy-schmancy 3D. Animatronics all the way.
Professor Mike Lean, from Glasgow University’s human nutrition department, has partnered with businessman Donnie Maclean to create and market a truly healthy frozen pizza. By modifying traditional recipes with some modern ingredients — like using seaweed in the dough to cut down on sodium — Professor Lean says the two have perfected a recipe which is safe to eat three meals a day. Every day. Forever. Of course, the two don’t recommend doing so, but they stand behind the claim and say their pizzas taste just as good if not better than their competition. It’s worth noting, though, that their competition is named “Tombstone.” (Photo via BBC News) source
Presenting the coolest food truck we have ever seen. Former baseball scout Jon Darsky had to ditch the food truck-standard step-van in favor of a Caterpillar truck when designing Del Popolo — his 33,000 pound wood-burning brick pizza oven on wheels. Now, he can be found roaming the streets of San Francisco, serving pizza prepared the way it was meant to be! Want to grab a slice? Keep up with Darsky’s current whereabouts on Twitter or Facebook.
(Source: Gizmodo)
Hey Pizza Hut: If you use an obvious rip-off of a Black Keys song in your commercial, you’re gonna get sued. Just an FYI. You too, Home Depot. Dan Auerbach and company doesn’t mess around.
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If you want to get a free pizza you must order in Spanish. Pizza Patrón, a carry-out pizza chain headquartered in Dallas, is planning a promotion that will give away large pepperoni pizzas to anyone that orders in Spanish, reported USA Today. But not everyone thinks this is good idea.
Via Google Translate: Una pizza de pepperoni por favor … ven, que no era tan difícil!
Hot dogs + Pizza = Hot Dog stuffed pizza crust.
Is your mouth watering yet?
The U.S. might be the worldwide leader in fast food and fat people but British diners will get the first taste of Pizza Hut’s new hotdog-stuffed-crust pizza.
Read more: http://bit.ly/IyP0CN
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Today in things that absolutely do not need to exist. Note the use of the phrase “mustard drizzle.”
So … Ezra Klein did the math on last week’s school lunch story, which created the “pizza is a vegetable” meme, and found that if you put the USDA-recommended one-eighth of a cup of tomato paste side-by-side with a half a cup of fruit, the results are actually pretty comparable. How about that? “Measuring fruit and vegetable servings by volume is a bit of an odd convention in the first place,” Klein notes. “When it comes to calories and nutrients, they’re really all over the map.” Problem is, of course, that the pizza is still attached to the bread and the cheese, while the apple is attached to nothing but goodness.
Pizza can continue to be the meal of choice: In a bit of a setback for the Obama administration, the USDA’s efforts to push for schools to provide healthier lunches ran into a wall of starchy special interests after members of Congress, in coordination with the food industry, added an unhealthy amendment to a spending bill. The amendment limits how much the government can regulate starchy vegetables like potatoes, as well as tomato paste (the fundamental ingredient of pizza), in school lunches. Why? Congress says it’ll be more expensive, due in part to vegetable prices. If the spending bill passes, we can blame kids’ unhealthy lunches on Congress. We love pizza too, but really now. (photo via USDA’s Flickr page) source
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