Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Serious Eats and the USDA's Food Environment Atlas

If you are looking for a website full of interesting recipes and information about food, seriouseats.com should be saved as a favorite. The posts are provided by a community of fun-loving authors, and of course the photographs are beautiful too. Recently the website has featured recipes reviews, restaurant reviews, and helpful tips for cooks of all ability levels.
One post shows the Daily Yonder's interpretation of the recent USDA's Food Environment Atlas. You will find a variety of food consumption visualizations and maps.

Do you want to know how far you live from the nearest McDonald's or Subway? The links to such information is available from the Food Atlas. In fact, the Food Atlas can be a very handy tool for people interested in the availability of food in your area, food security, distances to supermarket (do you live in a food desert?), low-income data, local foods, health, food taxes, availability of restaurants, food prices, food eaten at home, and so much more. Check out the Food Atlas website and you will find yourself amazed at the information and getting lost in the eye-opening differences our nation has to offer.

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