Avoid plastic when freezing baby food using this stainless steel ice cube tray from Onyx.

Food News, Things We Crave, Resources, Green Your Eats, and Tips, Tools & Techniques. Check out this week’s picks.

Food News

• We love Marion Nestle. And we love it when she speaks out against industrially produced foods. Could swine flu be linked to the clouds of flies that swarm above pig farm manure lagoons? More will be revealed. (via Eating Liberally) 
• Everyone’s talking about this nutty article on the food elite (herein called the food police)—and why they think they’re better than you (via the New York Post) 
• Hate on a Plate—his might be one of the best article titles ever about the science of food aversions (via the San Diego Union Tribune)
• First, I had no idea some experts predict the ocean will be fish-less in less than 40 years! And, second, here’s one entrepreneurs open-sea-fish-farming solution (via CNN Money)
• The former head of the Food and Drug Administration addresses the science of overeating in his new book (via the Wall Street Journal)

Things We Crave

• I’ve always had trouble finding a full wooden cook set. Here’s a gorgeous one from Scoopsori (via Scoopsori)
• Yum! Cupcakes out, Southern Tea Cakes in? (via Springwise)
• British choreographer has created a piece called Just Add Water? that’s about how food unites people—wish I were in London to see it (via Epicurious)

Resources

• Here’s a must-have list of budget friendly cookware—to which I’d have to ate kitchen shears (Stacie’s fave) and an inexpensive slow cooker (the love of my life) (via Two Spoons and Tastespotting) 

Green Your Eats

• Here’s a great idea for growing a veggie garden with recycled materials. I wonder if this could work on a wall in our apartment? Green art anyone? (via New World Geek and Home Grown) 
• Freezing your own baby food but want to avoid plastic? Go totally retro hip with this stainless steel ice cube tray by Onyx (available from the Tickle Trunk) (thanks to mommyfootprint) 

Tips, Tools, & Techniques

• Neat iPhone tool for communicating food allergy and preferences while traveling foreign countries (via Feisty Tourist)
• EWWE! Is this a tip to avoid a Jenny Haniver at all costs? Or a challenge to figure out the technique for making one? (via Serious Eats)