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A mutant bacterial enzyme that breaks down plastic bottles for recycling in hours has been created by scientists. The enzyme, originally discovered in a compost heap of leaves, reduced the bottles to chemical building blocks that were then used to make high-quality new bottles. Existing recycling technologies usually produce plastic only good enough for clothing… Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours

I have always thought to myself that the version of Top Chef that I would want to watch would be chef-owners plunging a toilet, cleaning an overflowing grease trap, balancing a balance sheet, and running payroll as fast as they could — a decathlon of all the administrative bullshit,” says Irene Li, the chef and… What Does It Really Cost to Run a Restaurant?

Midwest farmers face a crisis. Hundreds are dying by suicide. Katie Wedell, Lucille Sherman and Sky Chadde, USA TODAY NetworkUpdated 1 hour ago One by one, the three men from the same close-knit community took their own lives. Their deaths spanned a two-year stretch starting in mid-2015 and shook the village of Georgetown, Ohio, about… SEEDS OF DESPAIR More than 450 farmers killed themselves across nine Midwestern states from 2014 to 2018. Meanwhile, calls to Farm Aid’s crisis hotline soar.

ORANGE COUNTY, NY — Dana Putnam drilled into a maple tree, added a plastic tube and waited for the sap to flow. Nothing happened. It’s the end of winter — prime tree-tapping time for New York maple farmers. But for Putnam, a fourth-generation maple farmer, last week was too hot for the trees to properly freeze,… Hotter winters, darker syrup: Maple farmers fear climate change will upend New York’s industry

BRUSSELS — In Belgium, a country where beer is the culinary king, its brewing also creates magic for mushrooms. In the cellars of the famed Abattoir meat market in Brussels’ Anderlecht neighborhood, Quentin Declerck and his partners have come up with a business idea for the times: Growing exotic mushroom varieties using the spent grains… Mushrooms grow from beer waste in the cellars of Brussels

In 2018, more than 6,300 people in the U.S. were sickened via toxic mushroom ingestion, according to the most recent statistics from the National Poison Data System (NPDS). Without immediate treatment, consuming poisonous species can lead to liver damage and even death. And among mushroom-related deaths, medical experts have estimated that around 90 percent are… Wild mushrooms poison thousands of people every year. USDA just introduced a device to detect the deadliest toxins

Ajar of Ớt Tương Triều Phát, the iconic chile sauce, lives on nearly every table in Vietnam, especially in the country’s south. This hot sauce is not all brute force. It’s a delicate sauce, one that simmers rather than boils, equipped with a slow-burning heat that rumbles to a fervent coda on the back of… The Chile Sauce That Fuels Hội An

The fast-food chicken nugget, a paragon of processed food, is finally poised to transcend its animal origins: Almost a year after Burger King rolled out its plant-based Impossible Whopper, Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes the first major fast-food chain to introduce a plant-based chicken product to its stores. Beyond Fried Chicken, a collaboration between Beyond Meat… Let’s Play Chicken….When Plant Based Chicken tastes better than the Real Chicken….maybe the KFC Real Nuggets aren’t so good after all….

This story is part of The Healthyish Guide to Eating for the Climate…Without Stressing Out, a collection of our best tips for living sustainably and eating well while doing so. When the after-dinner crowds finish their kombucha cocktails and filter out the doors of west~bourne, a LA-inspired all-day cafe in New York’s trendy Soho neighborhood,… Can Zero-Waste Restaurants Succeed in New York?

A short walk from the Louvre, Chez la Vieille guards the corner of Rues Bailleul and l’Arbre Sec, as it has for 56 years. Flowing cursive spells out “Adrienne” along the top of the façade, a reference to its original proprietress, a Corsican woman named Adrienne Biasin, who opened the workaday bistro in 1958 to… Are Parisian Bistros Finished or Just Getting Started? Ten years ago, French chefs reimagined the bistro. Now, they’re doing it again — in unexpected ways

This tiny sachet the size of a sugar packet can be placed in a crate of fruit and it makes the produce last roughly three times longer than usual. The technology, from a startup called Hazel Technologies, was created as a simple way to tackle one piece of the world’s problem with food waste. In the… These simple packets fight food waste by miraculously keeping fruit from going bad

Food systems are going to need to be resilient to withstand climate change’s effects on agriculture. Looking at 20 factors, researchers now have a big picture about which countries are most under threat. What we choose to eat can affect climate change, and that means all the factors involved in feeding our growing population—from agriculture… This World Map rates countries by the sustainability of their food systems