Eastern Comfort  It's Food and Science Day over at Scientific
American!  6:00 pm / August 11, 2011 / Written by Sam Dean /
KEYWORDS: Knowledge, Websites  For the even slightly science-
inclined food lovers out there, today’s your lucky day!
Scientific American devoted all of its blogs to the intersection
of food and science, and has put out some great reads so far.  A
lot of the posts, like Katherine Harmon’s piece on the nutrition
value of milk (organic is more consistent) or Alex Wild on how
most “organic honey” probably isn’t (bees fly too far!), simply
answer longstanding questions or debunk food myths. Julia Galef
even got down to the hard math of how many animals die in the
process of making our food, and found that eating eggs actually
kills more animals than eating red meat!  Others, though, either
analyze the culture surrounding food or propose ways to make the
industry better as a whole. Krystal D’Costa talks about the way
that coffee’s pitched itself as a lifestyle brand over the years
and asks if w