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'No Place For Discontent': A History Of The Family Dinner In America
In homes across the United States, families sit down around their dining tables to share a meal together known as the Family Dinner. This can be a joyous occasion or a contentious one. Whether you feel...
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That Shredded Parmesan in Your Fridge Might Actually Be Wood, Says FDA
In this week's edition of cheese-related atrocities: A Food and Drug Administration inspection has determined that you may have unknowingly been sprinkling wood shavings on your spaghetti and...
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Next Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to Climate Change
The United States sure knows how to throw cold water on international harmony. Just two months have passed since the world’s top diplomats cobbled together the best plan we’ve ever had to start curbing...
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The strange story of my accepted but then unpublished commentary on a...
Last summer, Brian Wansink, a friend and Cornell colleague and the editor of the new Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, asked me to write a commentary on a paper to be published in its...
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Facing Severe Food Shortages, Venezuela Pushes Urban Gardens
Last week, opposition lawmakers in Venezuela declared a "food emergency." That's because Venezuela is facing widespread shortages of milk, meat, bread and other staples. Critics blame the government's...
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A bogus theory connecting Zika virus to Monsanto could give mosquitoes a boost
You may have seen the theory that the increase in microcephaly in South America is caused not by the Zika virus, but by a pesticide called pyriproxyfen that officials have been putting into water to...
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The cafes serving drinks with 25 teaspoons of sugar per cup
Millions of Britons are putting their health at risk by ordering hot chocolate and other trendy chai drinks that contain staggering amounts of sugar – up to 25 teaspoons – in just one serving. Action...
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FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation’s chief food safety regulator, plans to start testing certain foods for residues of the world’s most widely used weed killer after the World...
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6 things I would ask the presidential candidates about food and farming
| Wed Feb. 17, 2016 6:00 AM EST The 2016 presidential election is hurtling into unknown territory, as candidates blessed by party elites fight for their political lives while insurgents suck up all the...
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Dairy farmers' uprisings lead the way to a democratic world food system
Dairy farmers protest in Brussels, October 2009. Photo: Teemu Mäntynen via Flickr (CC BY-SA). More articles about A green Wales is taking off - in spite of UK government policies Arms, agribusiness,...
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Palau vs. the Poachers
Late on a January 2015 evening in Shepherdstown, W.Va., a data analyst named Bjorn Bergman, surrounded by whiteboards scribbled with computer code, was orchestrating a high-stakes marine police chase...
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Experts call on feds to re-evaluate the world’s most heavily used herbicide
Health scientists—in a review of the published data on glyphosate—see a “desperate need” for federal regulators around the world to revisit the herbicide's health impact February 17, 2016 By Brian...
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James Beard Foundation
Here they are! Below are the semifinalists for the 2016 Restaurant and Chef Awards. Read on for semifinalists in all categories, from Outstanding Restaurant to Rising Star Chef of the Year. For a...
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2016 James Beard Award semifinalists announced
Today (Wednesday, February 17), the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2016 restaurant and chef awards (a.k.a. the Academy Awards of the restaurant industry). The final nominees...
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57,000 students say: stop GMO banana feeding trials!
Red banana cultivars such as these from Sri Lanka are already high in pre-Vitamin A. However big businesses won't gain financially from introducing these varities to areas where Vitamin A deficiency is...
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James Beard Awards 2016 Restaurant & Chef Semifinalists
Today the James Beard Foundation released its 2016 list of Restaurant and Chef Awards semifinalists. On March 15, the foundation will release its list of final nominees — including those for Restaurant...
View ArticleLipari Foods Issues Voluntary Recall of Various Retail and Food Service Raw...
Customer Service 1-800-729-3354 Lipari Foods, LLC, of Warren, Michigan, has issued a voluntary recall of various raw pistachio products packaged by sister company JLM due to potential Salmonella risk....
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FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation’s chief food safety regulator, plans to start testing certain foods for residues of the world’s most widely used weed killer after the World...
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Yahoo Shuts Down Yahoo Food Site
This just in: Yahoo Food, one of Yahoo's new digital magazines, is no more. Back in 2014, Yahoo — once one of the web's fastest growing companies — launched a series of digital magazines. The end goal...
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Here's what we should be asking Clinton, Sanders, Trump, and Cruz about food
Let’s assume the nascent “good food” movement had its collective shit together enough to coalesce and organize into a coherent political force like the farm lobby. The Club for Growth has famously...
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