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…
WhenWhen I saw the pastel pink can of Recess sitting on the counter of a cafe in Southampton’s Parrish Art Museum, tucked between the blood orange Sanpellegrino, lime LaCroix, and a plain old plastic bottle…
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…
We’re in the midst of the fifth E. coli outbreak from leafy greens in just two years. It’s also the second outbreak announcement in the last month. Update 11/26/2019, 5:22 p.m.: CDC updated the number of…
The “Omakase berry,” grown at an indoor farm in Jersey, is popping up at Michelin-starred restaurants like Sushi Ginza Onodera and Atomix by Devorah Lev-Tov At the end of October, diners at Sushi Ginza Onodera…
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 to art, the tropical drupe has become synonymous with Caribbean…
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 will no longer serve meat going forward—and haven’t been doing…
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 other proteins produced from air, methane or volcanic microbes. With…
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 a taste. A Boulder, Colorado-based startup has opened a new…
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 life-threatening, like whole-body anaphylaxis. The FDA does not include sesame…