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Doctors should prescribe gardening for patients more often, says report
Doctors should prescribe gardening far more often for patients with cancer, dementia and mental health problems, the NHS has been urged in a new report. Outdoor spaces including gardens can reduce...
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This Indonesian Startup Lets City Dwellers Play FarmVille In Real Life
Someone living in a high-rise in Jakarta may not have a balcony, let alone a garden plot for growing food. But an Indonesian startup is working to turn city dwellers into virtual farmers: Through the...
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How To Prevent Millions of Deaths from Failing Antibiotics
One death every three seconds, all around the world. That will be the toll of antibiotic resistance by the year 2050 if nations don’t take sharp, immediate action together to prevent it. But prevention...
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An Oral History of An Inconvenient Truth
Supported by Cool Effect A decade ago, climate change was a huge problem with a small audience. Unless you were among a handful of brave policymakers, concerned scientists, or loyal Grist readers, it’s...
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Are Farmers Markets Really as Expensive as Everyone Says?
No one is going to correct you if you say that the farmers market is an expensive place to shop. It's so widely assumed that it's taken for fact—and a quick breeze through a market might even...
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All the News That’s Fit to Eat: FLOTUS Announces New Nutrition Labels, Big...
Here are the headlines that caught our eye this week. Michelle Obama’s Labeling Crusade (Politico) First Lady Michelle Obama will unveil on Friday the country’s first update to nutrition labels in more...
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New food label! Congratulations Let’s Move! & FDA
I kept hearing rumors this week that Michelle Obama would announce the revised Nutrition Facts panel at today’s summit meeting of the Partnership for a Healthier America, the public-private partnership...
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Bayer's Monsanto approach sparks shareholder uproar
LONDON/FRANKFURT Bayer's (BAYGn.DE) takeover approach for U.S. rival Monsanto (MON.N) triggered an investor backlash on Friday, with one of the German pesticides and drugs company's major shareholders...
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Meet the "Food Person" Who Never Makes Stock
He ended up with the carcass. "No? You sure?" one of my three older brothers asked me, blushing over his osseous prize. "Totally," I nodded from the kitchen sink, the gnawed cuticles of my fingers...
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The FDA just made the most significant changes to the nutrition label in years
Trying to understand how healthy your food is by reading the nutrition labels on packaging is like trying to complete an advanced math equation: It's possible, but requires a lot of effort. Now,...
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Does Your Food Define You? Sophie Egan Thinks So.
In her new book, Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale—How What We Eat Defines Who We Are, Sophie Egan invites readers to take a hard look at the American food psyche. The food writer and a program...
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An 'Added Sugar' Label Is On The Way For Packaged Food
The new, redesigned "Nutrition Facts" label is coming. The Food and Drug Administration has announced that the new label will be required on most packaged food by July 2018. The big change: The label...
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New Labels Warn That A Tender Steak Could Be A Little Dangerous
A new label on some of the steaks in your grocery store highlights a production process you may never have heard of: mechanical tenderizing. This means the beef has been punctured with blades or...
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Antimicrobial-resistant superbugs could soon be deadlier than cancer
By 2050, infections adapted to resist our current antimicrobial drugs (read: antibiotics, anti-fungals, antivirals, and meds that target parasites) could kill 10 million people a year — and that’s a...
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Allrecipes Reveals the Enormous Gap Between Foodie Culture and What Americans...
In 2009, Cook’s Illustrated founder Christopher Kimball wrote a eulogy for Gourmet, the glossy Condé Nast magazine that was being shuttered after nearly seven decades. The publication had been a home...
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Climate Change Is Messing with Our Meals
By Peter Lehner I don’t want this blog to be totally depresso (adj; sadness resulting from lack of coffee), but climate change is making coffee farming more difficult than ever. I help run a Rainforest...
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From Farm to Bottle: This Brewery Combines Beer and Agriculture
Something tasty is brewing in the village of Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast, a 40-minute ferry ride from Vancouver, British Columbia. Maybe it’s Persephone Brewing Company’s caramel-meets-pine Hop Yard...
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Eating sustainably is healthier eating News
May 16, 2016—How often do you think about where your food comes from or how it was produced? According to Michael Pollan, author and fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard...
View ArticleTaste It, Don't Waste It! Green Garlic and Garlic Scapes
As support for local food has grown, some crops that were previously discarded as farm by-products have been adopted by eaters as newly discovered culinary delights. Green garlic and garlic scapes are...
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How ‘Foodie’ Culture Survived the Recession
The nation-wide migraine that was the Great Recession caused over eight million job losses between 2007 and 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Something odd happened, though: Since the...
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