Chocolate milk_friend or foe ?

Move over, Cupcake, there’s a new lightning rod in the school food debate, and her name is Chocolate Milk. The Milk Processor Education Program has teamed up with the National Dairy Council, and according to the Associated Press, they’re spending big bucks to defend chocolate milk’s reputation. Turns out some people question its continued presence on school cafeteria menus.
So, its defenders are playing hardball, with a You Tube video featuring celebrities like Rebecca Romijn, plus a coterie of registered dietitians.  On the other side of the debate are academics, like Marion Nestle, PhD of NYU, who shine a bright light on the campaign’s hefty budget and the money at stake and question its underlying premise–that kids won’t drink milk if it’s not chocolatey.
As if that weren’t juicy enough, the New York Times just reported on a small Spanish study that suggests that drinking skim milk with cocoa reduced inflammation and boosted HDL (good) cholesterol.  Of course, there’s no mention of sugar, since pure cocoa powder (unlike chocolate milk) contains none.
And therein lies the rub.
Chocolate milk: good or evil?  Seems everyone is taking sides.

Cheryl Sternman Rule is a widely-published food writer and the voice behind the blog 5 Second Rule

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New typologies : Yogurt containers (homage to the Bechers)

The playful, brilliant photography team and co-writers of the popular blog Mrs. Deane have launched another great personal project: Joghurtbecher.

Here’s what they have to say about this new work :
“We’re having fun with a new typologies series: joghurtbecher. It’s a silly play on words in German – becher also means container -, but we simply could not resist. We’ll be scouring the shops to find all the available sizes and shapes for what promises to be a growing hommage to Bernd and Hilla Becher. It has become almost impossible to still be making typologies with a straight face in the presence of their legacy, and you cannot expect the viewer to simply ignore noticing their influence.”

“Taking a somewhat more lighthearted and less earnest approach often helps. The joghurtbecher typology acknowledges this fact, but also takes its clue from the consequences of the dominance of the Becher surname. For instance, if someone unable to read would be presented with the results of a Google image search for the word ‘becher’, he might come to believe the word means approximately tower-like building, judging by the number and kind of images produced by the query. The meaning ‘cup, container’ would be utterly lost upon such a person – and another semantic shift would have happened, creating myriads of possible misinterpretations in the distant future when German will be as dead a language as ancient Chinese.”

http://www.beikey.net/mrs-deane/