The Top New York City Dining Neighborhoods of 2015
As is the tradition at Eater, our closeout of the year is a survey of friends, industry types, and bloggers. This year, we asked the group eight questions running the gamut from meal of the year to top...
View ArticleTPP's Forgotten Danger: Stronger Trade Secrets Protection, With Criminal...
Since the release of the TPP text back in November, commentators have naturally tended to concentrate on the bigger, more obvious problems -- things like the corporate sovereignty chapter, the...
View ArticleFive Years of Working Toward a Healthy, Hunger-Free Generation
This time of year, it often feels like time is flying by. As we take time to step back and reflect on the past, we often think, “My, my, where did the time go?” or “It feels like just yesterday…” or...
View Article6 Lucky New Year's (Real) Foods
Looking for a bit of luck in 2016 ? From greens to beans, there are lots of foods that are said to bring good fortune (and even wealth) to the eater. We dip into our Real Food Right Now and How to Cook...
View ArticleThe Year In Eggs: Everyone's Going Cage-Free, Except Supermarkets
Cage-free chickens in a barn near Hershey, Pa., get to roam and perch on steel rods (but they don't go outside). In September, McDonald's said it would buy only cage-free eggs, inspiring several other...
View ArticleEndangered Sea Otters Have a New Problem: Overpopulation
A year ago conservationists warned that the recovery of California’s iconic sea otters had stalled. The number of sea otters in the region grew by just five animals in 2014, leading some to worry that...
View ArticleFarmers Try Political Force to Twist Open California’s Taps
Few in agriculture have shaped the debate over water more than the several hundred owners of an arid finger of farmland west of Fresno. FIVE POINTS, Calif. — The message that Maria L. Gutierrez gave...
View ArticleClimate Chaos, Across the Map
With tornado outbreaks in the South, Christmas temperatures that sent trees into bloom in Central Park, drought in parts of Africa and historic floods drowning the old industrial cities of England,...
View Article4 Food Rules You Won’t Find in Michael Pollan’s ‘In Defense of Food’ (and 2...
Fellow food nerds will already know how I spent the eve before New Year’s Eve. I was cuddled on the couch (snacks in hand) watching the new PBS documentary In Defense of Food. Some of my favorite food...
View ArticleInside Etsy's Locally Focused Food Program
A version of this story was originally published in Edible Brooklyn. Etsy’s global headquarters in DUMBO looks like what one might expect: Many of the exposed air ducts wear crocheted sweaters,...
View ArticleNYC Dining Was Not Better Than Ever in 2015
At some point in the late part of the fall, I tried to convince Bill Addison, Eater's Restaurant Editor who travels the country eating at the most relevant and essential restaurants 40 weeks out of the...
View ArticleWant To Avoid A Hangover? Science Has Got You Covered
Seeing double after toasting? Just wait for the hangover that's coming, thanks in part to those bubbles in sparkling wine. Chris Nickels for NPR hide caption Editor's note: This story was first...
View Article8 Edibles You Can Grow Indoors This Winter
It’s a sweet sort of melancholy that drives the home gardener while putting summer garden beds to sleep. And for those who have caught "the bug”—the insatiable, undeniable craving to conjure green...
View ArticleMajoring in Food: Colleges Offering More Courses, Degrees
Steve Holt writes about everything from food to real estate for a diverse collection of publications and websites that includes The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Edible Boston, and TakePart. In 2011,...
View ArticleThe Fight To Preserve Traditional Pastureland
Climate change and political borders are just two of the challenges facing the world’s 200 million to 500 million pastoralists — women and men practicing animal husbandry, be they nomadic, transhumant...
View Article7 Ways to Recycle Your Christmas Tree
With Christmas over, there's likely a plant in your house whose glory is rapidly fading. Pity the poor evergreen, which rarely gets to see the inside of anyone's house except for a few short weeks in...
View Article10 things we should do to fix our broken food system
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was the Dr. Seuss classic “If I Ran the Zoo,” in which young Gerald McGrew decides he wants none of the humdrum lions and tigers and bears. Instead, he’ll fly...
View ArticleNorth Dakota grain terminal will be dedicated to non-GMO commodities
Captain Drake, LLC acquires North Dakota grain terminal to streamline supply chain for non- GMO corn and soybeans and meet growing non-GMO demand in the US Led by a private investment firm, Killer...
View ArticleYour chance to officially tell the USTR what you think about the TPP ← Flush...
According to the Federal Register, the Office of the US Trade Representative announced on Dec. 28 that it “is seeking public comments on the impact of the TPP Agreement on U.S. employment, including...
View ArticleEnd Monsanto's corruption in 2016, You in?
With your help we can win this important GMO labeling battle in Washington DC! Chip in whatever you can right now to help us continue our work. Your tax deductible donation will be Matched 2 to 1! We...
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