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Olympic Gymnast Shawn Johnson in Butter Form: Go USA!
16-year old U.S. Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson has a lot to be proud about having just won the silver medal in the women's gymnastics individual all-around competition. But before then, she already had a nearly just as important accomplishment on her list: being made into a life-sized butter sculpture. Butter Shawn Johnson will be on display at the Iowa State Fair in the Agriculture Building until this Sunday, the 17th. [via Neatorama]...How to Make Butter
Bay Area Bites Want an easy project for the weekend that will result in something useful but all you have on hand is heavy cream? Mike Procopio of Bay Area Bites has just the thing for you with his butter-making tutorial. Simply dump your heavy cream in a bowl and whip it until it turns into whipped cream. And then continue whipping until the whipped cream turns into clumps of butter! Related Ramp Compound Butter Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us: Deep Fried Butter Balls Unbelieveable! This Is Not Butter!...Margarine Freedom in Quebec
For 21 years, Quebec made sure margarine didn't resemble butter too much. Lighter or darker, as long as the chemical alternative didn't dupe consumers after the real stuff. This policy also allowed the province to retain such an influential dairy industry. But earlier this week, the Cabinet decided margarine could now be any color—even a gold buttery one....More on the Butter Shortage in Japan
How bad is Japan's butter shortage? Here's some more photographic evidence: Yongfook, a web designer based in Tokyo, took this photo in a supermarket where a block of a butter blend now costs about $7. So for $14 you could get a full only-butter block. Previously Japan Is Running Out of Butter Unbelieveable! This Is Not Butter!...More in Food Shortages: Japan Is Running Out of Butter
A sign explains "that the management does not know when the next shipment of butter will come." Japanese croissant-lovers be afraid: Japan is going through an extreme butter shortage: Where is the butter? — cry Japanese consumers who have been hunting everywhere for the dairy product. The drastic reduction in raw milk production, complicated by hikes in the price of grain as well as changes in the global patterns of dairy product consumption, have caused a serious butter shortage in Japan. Empty shelves in the dairy section of grocery stores across the country have not seen a shipment of butter for days, and stores are posting signs apologizing for the shortage. [via Boing Boing]...Droste Effect Makes Me Like Butter More
It's good to be proud of your product. So much that you want your food mascot to be consuming the goods too, hence a packaging with the Droste effect. This Dutch term refers to a repetitive cycle of art in a diminishing, hypothetically neverending series. Logically it cannot go on forever though. For example, the Land O' Lakes label depicts their Native-American maiden mascot showing off her favorite buttah brand. But does the mini maiden hold an even minier maiden? We can only hope. Tricky, tricky stuff. [via Box Vox]...Fancy Butter Taste Test
In the past year or so, my local grocery store upped its number of high-end butter offerings. In addition to the Lurpak and Plugra brands I'd known, there were entrants from Italy, Ireland, and France. Is there a huge difference among them all? The blogger Miss Ginsu attempts to find out by tasting nine different high-end butters, domestic and imported....Don't Forget the Brown Butter
"Brown butter is one of the great ingredients quietly hiding in your refrigerator." Michael Ruhlman reminds us that brown butter, or butter that has been cooked until the solids turn brown, can be used in just about anything that uses butter to impart nutty and caramel flavors....Who Loves Butter?
A child answers the question: Who loves butter? From Lazy Man and Health. Related, 'Paula Deen is Trying Kill Us': Part 1, Part 2, Part 3...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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