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Shaping the 2015 Dietary Guidelines: A Timeline
After much public debate and anticipation—including Congressional hearings, nearly 30,000 public comments, and letters to cabinet secretaries from health professionals and elected officials—the new...
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Campbell Labels Will Disclose G.M.O. Ingredients
Breaking from its industry rivals, Campbell Soup will become the first major food company to begin disclosing the presence of genetically engineered ingredients like corn, soy and sugar beets in its...
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Learn This Trick for Miso Soup, Thank Us Later
Miso soup is one of those foods everyone orders, but no one makes. Until now: The brothy stuff that comes for free with your sushi order doesn’t stand a chance against our Elemental Miso Soup recipe,...
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Uncle Sam Just Told Us To Drink Water, Not Soda. You Might've Missed It
The MyPlate icon is the visual centerpiece of the USDA's advice for healthy eating aimed at the general public. Scientists and other public health advocates had called for adding a water symbol to the...
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Equity for Coffee Farmers
Atlanta coffee company Thrive brewed up strong results in 2015. Demand from corporate customers, including Chick-fil-A, percolated, putting Thrive on pace to generate $20 million in revenue for the...
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Mario Batali's Beer Made Out of Food Waste
In October, chef and restaurant owner, Mario Batali and Delaware-based brewer Sam Calagione launched a new experiment: beer made out of food waste. Calagione is the owner of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery...
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Why It's So Freaking Difficult for Farmers to Source Organic Feed
Run an Internet search for "organic food shortage" and you'll come up with dozens of stories attesting that demand for certified organic products in North America far outstrips domestic supply,...
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A Healthy Diet’s Main Ingredients? Best Guesses
Thirty-five years after the first dietary guidelines, how much do we really know about the science behind a healthy diet? First doctor: “This morning for breakfast he requested something called ‘wheat...
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Bringing Out the Chef in Children
“I had no idea the world of food was so big. There are so many simple, tasty foods from all these cultures that are so easy to make. You don’t have to eat them in a restaurant or be a trained chef to...
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How To Raise Monarch Butterflies
My first taste of life (and death) came in the form of a monarch butterfly. Today, wide-eyed children may not be afforded the opportunity to experience this kind of first-hand natural interaction, as...
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World's Largest Meatpacking Firm Wants To Test Out Robot Butchers
Cattle carcasses hang on hooks inside a cooler at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colo. JBS employs some 3,000 workers at this plant. The company is looking into ways to automate the art of...
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Endangered Green Sea Turtles Return to Florida in Record Numbers
There are seven species of sea turtles, and they are all at risk of extinction—pressured by poaching, pollution, loss of habitat, and climate change. But the odds for a Florida subpopulation of one sea...
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How El Niño Is Impacting California’s Wine Industry
In 1998, heavy rains hit California mid-winter in what was described as one of the strongest El Niños to date. It caused flooding, abnormally high waters, and multiple storms that led to substantial...
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'Chefs With Issues' Hopes to Destigmatize Mental Health Issues in the...
"Most of us who live and operate in the culinary underworld are in some fundamental way dysfunctional," Anthony Bourdain wrote in 1999, in the New Yorker piece that would lead to his magnum opus...
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Organic and small-scale: An alternative vision for the future of farming
Two visions of the future of farming played out in Oxford this week. The five-year-old Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) at the town hall, sponsored by organic farming company Sheepdrove and...
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Chicago Is Using Data to Predict Food Safety Violations. So Why Aren't Other...
The three dozen inspectors at the Chicago Department of Public Health scrutinize 16,000 eating establishments to protect diners from gut-bombing food sickness. Some of those pose more of a health risk...
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Eating Right Can Save the World
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.” That’s what the French lawyer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, who happened to have a deep love of gastronomy, wrote in 1825. A century later, a...
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David Chang Opens His New Momofuku Tonight With Italian Food and No Tipping
At last, the long-awaited, mysterious Momofuku project in Chelsea has come to fruition, and in typically Changian style, there are a few elements of surprise: Momofuku Nishi, as it's called, is...
View ArticleWill the "€œreal"€? Dietary Guidelines please stand up?
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), which inform the $16 billion dollar school lunch program, federal procurement, and our national health education programs, have been a point of...
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Campbell GMO labeling announcement could spur federal action
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2016 - Campbell Soup Company's decision to support mandatory GMO labeling received plaudits from labeling advocates, jeers from an anti-labeling industry coalition, and a more...
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