{"id":14242,"date":"2020-03-03T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2020-02-29T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T17:26:27","slug":"gourmet-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=14242","title":{"rendered":"Gourmet Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" data-attachment-id=\"14243\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=14243\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 11 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1581950226&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0098039215686275&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1334\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334-scaled.jpeg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334.jpeg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334-scaled.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_1334-scaled.jpeg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Processed food is one of the inventions mentioned in the book <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01MXV2YGI?pf_rd_r=RRAGBB9ZE3SHJFV9W4HH&amp;pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8\">Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy<\/a> by Tim Harford. He focuses on the Swanson TV dinner but points out that among the first processed foods was a plucked and dressed chicken. The time saving from using processed foods had huge implications in the work force and the home. The book is excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there is a downside to processed food and a plastic wrapped &#8220;cheese flight&#8221; illustrates it very well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is <strong>Gourmet Plastic<\/strong> an oxymoron?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Processed food is one of the inventions mentioned in the book Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford. He focuses on the Swanson TV dinner but points out that among the first processed foods was a plucked and dressed chicken. The time saving from using processed foods had huge implications in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[80,778],"class_list":["post-14242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations","category-simon-says","tag-books","tag-cheese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3HI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14244,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}