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Sometime around 2002, when I was 13 or 14, I was a pudgy and awkward kid growing up in western Massachusetts. I remember being with my Mom, staring at the TV. I think she was making dinner, as was the woman on screen. She had a raspy voice, one that struck me even then as… Meet the executives who have made Netflix food TV

THE INTERNET IS full of videos of thoughtful people setting things on fire. Here’s a perennial favorite: Cleave a grape in half, leaving a little skin connecting the two hemispheres. Blitz it in the microwave for five seconds. For one glorious moment, the grape halves will produce a fireball unfit for domestic life. Physicist Stephen Bosi tried the experiment back… WHY A GRAPE TURNS INTO A FIREBALL IN A MICROWAVE

Lean Finely Textured Beef, dubbed ‘pink slime’, has been officially classified as ‘ground beef’ by the USDA.  On December 21, 2018, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reclassified the the controversial pink slime as simply ground beef.  Pink slime is a food additive made from beef trimmings exposed to ammonia gas… USDA rules that ‘pink slime’ can officially be called ground beef

Today we’re pleased to announce the five recipients of our 2019 America’s Classics Awards. For the past week, we’ve been announcing the honorees day by day with the help of influencers from across the country (check out our Instagram page to see the videos). The awards are given to regional establishments, often family-owned, that are cherished for… ANNOUNCING THE 2019 James Beard Foundation AMERICA’S CLASSICS WINNERS

Do you know what baby carrots actually are? For me, the baby-carrot jig was up a couple years ago. I’m not sure what I’d believed about them previously: Were they actual babies? Were they a “baby” breed of small adult carrots? I certainly hadn’t understood them to be carrot nuggets, whittled out of big, ugly… The Murky Ethics of the Ugly-Produce Business

When the team behind the Italian restaurant dell’anima, a mainstay in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood for more than a decade, faced a sizable rent increase last year, they decided it was no longer feasible to keep the establishment going at the location. And given the high cost of Manhattan real estate, they knew there wasn’t… Food Halls Are the New Meal Ticket for Bricks-and-Mortar Restaurants Dining spots are using the food hall model to curb rent costs and expand their footprints

For a company less than one year old, Liberty Produce has already taken some big strides along its path to make vertical farming a more scalable, economically feasible reality. Specifically, the UK-based agtech company hopes to not just grow food, but also create an end-to-end, automated vertical farm system that, according to founder Zeina Chapman,… Future Farming Hub Is Creating a One-Stop-Shop Vertical Farming System for ‘Anyone’

Last year, the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list seemingly decided that it wanted to do better. Through a September statement from director Hélène Pietrini, the international restaurant-ranking organization announced that it would have a 50/50 gender balance on its voting academy and would urge those voters to “explore a diverse mix of restaurants.” Now they’re putting another measure in… Previous World’s 50 Best Winners Are Ineligible for This Year’s List

Early populations of humans in the Americas had the same ancestry as modern Native Americans, according to studies published today (November 8) in Cell and Science. The data dispel any ideas based on the skull shapes of a few ancient remains that early populations were not related to modern Native Americans and give more clues… Ancient DNA Maps Early American Migrations in New Detail

The cranberry harvest always starts with a flood. Each fall, after bright sun and cold nights transform the fruits from green to ruby red, cranberry farmers inundate their bogs, submerging the berries in knee-high water. Working in teams, wader-clad farmworkers push “egg beaters”—wheeled water reels that look like giant whisks—through the water. The beaters shake… Farmers will destroy one in four cranberries this year

Getting adequate sleep is increasingly rare among the active duty military population, as frequent deviations from the body’s natural circadian rhythms due to a demanding operational tempo pit personnel in an ongoing struggle against the ever-persistent sandman. To combat the sleep deprivation unique to this demographic, service members often turn to energy drinks, a prominent… The military’s obsession with energy drinks is contributing to PTSD, study finds

By now, many consumers have heard of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide known as Roundup, and warnings about its presence in many of their favorite foods. From oatmeal to granola bars, ice cream to even orange juice, trace amounts of the chemical can be found throughout your local supermarket. It’s the world’s most widely… How Much Herbicide Can You Tolerate in Your Food, and for How Long?