3-D Printed Pizza to Feed Mars Colonists?

Well, the prototype 3-D pizza printer won’t actually feed the colonists — nice idea though — but the technique to print food has attracted a $125,000 NASA grant for a mechanical engineer to further develop his idea. Could it feed astronauts and the future Earth? Possibly.

Sautéed cicada, anyone? Might need some salt.

20 Animals You Could Eat But Probably Won’t

Squirrels? Dogs? Cats? Jellyfish?? Hell, I’d just settle for some 2 day-old roadkill. Perhaps not a skunk though…

For more animal-eating weirdness, check out this gallery.

China to Grow Veggies on Mars? It’s no secret that China’s space program is progressing at fast rate, but could the nation leapfrog the US in the realm of human spaceflight by landing the first extraterrestrial “greenhouse” on Mars?

Tofu = Good Sex?

People who consume tofu and other plant-based foods might enjoy a better sex life than meat-eaters, suggests a new study that found certain plant products can influence hormone levels and heighten sexual activity.

foodopia:

mississippi mud brownies: recipe here

i might have been on an airplane all day with a screaming kid but this looks amazing.

screw that, even if i had been at home eating pizza all day this would still look amazing. someone make it for me. k, thx.

As someone who occasionally enjoys a breakfast sandwich from our favorite faux-irish fast food hawker… Can One Drive-Through Breakfast Be That Bad? It turns out it can. In fact, just one Egg McMuffin-style fast food meal can hurt your arteries’ ability to increase blood flow under stress, researchers said in a new study.

ilovecharts:

The Pasta Cuteness Scale

via H.K.

where’s orecchiette pasta?! it looks like little hats… so cute.

thedailywhat:

Cinnamon Roll Waffles of the Day: Do it yourself! Or follow the easiest directions ever.

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omg. i skipped breakfast and i am now regretting it.

gourmet:

Libido-Killing Food

If oysters and chile peppers supposedly make people feel frisky, what foods have the power to turn them off sex altogether? Lexi Dwyer looks at anti-aphrodisiacs, or recipes for disaster in the bedroom

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i had a birthday party at mcdonald’s when i was really young, i remember being very excited, but i can’t remember why. maybe it was the cake covered in sugary versions of grimace and the hamburgler.

or perhaps it was simply because it was my birthday.

josephdenne:

Fast-food logos burned into pleasure center of children’s brains

A study has found that fast-food logos are branded into the minds of children at an early age, perhaps fueling the West’s obesity epidemic. The study showed children 60 logos from popular food brands and 60 logos from popular non-food brands. Researchers found that, when shown images of fast-food brands, the parts of kids’ brains linked with pleasure and appetite lit up. This is concerning because marketers tap into those portions of the brain long before children develop self-control, and most foods marketed to kids are high in calories, sugar, sodium, and fat.