The Coconut Tree, also referred to as the “Tree of Life”, is one of the most popular symbols of Caribbean imagery. From music, to food… Read More »Climate-Smart Coconut Agriculture Could Be The Caribbean’s Tree Of Life
Where’s the beef? Well, you certainly won’t find it—or pork or chicken—at any of Dominique Crenn’s restaurants. The three-Michelin-starred chef has announced that her restaurants… Read More »3-Michelin-Starred Chef Dominique Crenn Will Stop Serving Meat at Her Restaurants
It may sound like science fiction, but in a few short years the family dinner table may be laden with steak from a printer and… Read More »Beyond vegan burgers: next-generation protein could come from air, methane, volcanic springs
A new class of fungi-based steaks, cultivated from a fast-growing micro-organism, may be a paradigm-shifting meat alternative. I visited Emergy Foods’ Boulder, Colorado headquarters for… Read More »A startup just announced the world’s first fake-meat “steaks” made from fungi. Are we ready?
More than 1.5 million Americans experience adverse reactions to sesame every year. The flareups can be relatively minor—skin irritations like hives, for instance—or serious and… Read More »More than 1.5 million Americans are allergic to sesame. Food companies don’t have to list it on their labels
A new UNICEF report highlights dietary challenges facing children around the world. A key takeaway? Industrial ag and climate change are compounding malnutrition. The proportion… Read More »By 2025, 43 million children under the age of five will be overweight
The world loses about $400 billion of food before it even gets delivered to stores, according to the United Nations. Some 14% of all food… Read More »The World Loses $400 Billion of Food Before It Reaches Stores
Of all the insults climate change hurls at our food supply—from more severe droughts and floods in key agriculture regions to declining yields of staple… Read More »Climate Change Is Killing Your Low-Carb Diet and robbing food of protein and other nutrients.
Students in medical schools across the country spend less than 1 percent of lecture time learning about diet. Earlier this year, Mount Sinai, the biggest… Read More »If food is medicine, why isn’t it taught at medical schools?
Not long after Mark Boyer planted the apple orchard he co-owns in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania, the trees started to die. First, their leaves turned yellow. Then,… Read More »What’s killing America’s apple trees?