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Watch Your Mouth: Why Do We Shoplift Meat and Cheese?
Meat and cheese tops the charts of shoplifted items. Why do we purloin sirloin and cop Camembert?
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: Candy O’Clock
Did daylight savings time change at the behest of the candy lobby?
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: The Protest Food of Occupy Wall Street
The history of countercultural movements can be told through their stomachs. When will this one find its signature protest dish?
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: I Can't Believe That Anti-Margarine Law's Still on the Books
Wisconsin is wrestling with a little law that's a last vestige of a former battle over butter. Here's what that means for fake food everywhere.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: Can You Patent a Sandwich?
What one peanut butter and jelly sandwich says about the wrongs of intellectual property rights.
Read & DiscussBit by Bit
Claude Shannon created the theory we use to communicate everything in the digital age. James Gleick is trying to quantify all that communication.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: What Should Food Stamps Subsidize?
The federal food stamp program is about alleviating poverty, not discouraging obesity, so farmers' markets or fatty snacks are both fair game.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: When to Taste—or Toss—Your Leftovers
Federal officials warn you to toss food that's been unrefrigerated for more than four hours. The advice stems from a broth full of Listeria.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: Is Eco-Certified Sea Bass a Sham?
How consumers fell for the dubious origins of the "certified-sustainable Chilean sea bass" hook, line, and sinker.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: The Sounds of Snacking
Chips crunch. Bags crinkle. Snapple pops. Here's how sound intersects with the branding of food.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: Four Loko and the Search for a Safe Caffeinated Booze
What coca-infused wine and a hyper-charged drinking culture can tell us about today's booze-with-a buzz craze.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: Eat Lightly and Carry a Big Fork
Bigger forks and heavier bowls might sound supersized, but they could actually cut down on portion sizes.
Read & DiscussWatch Your Mouth: Tapping the Source of Carbonated Water
A refreshing look into the peculiar origins of the carbon dioxide bubbles in our drinks.
Read & DiscussWinners! Redesign the Food Label
Behold, four designs for a better food label. Who knows? You might actually read the label if they looked like this.
Read & DiscussUnderstanding the Chemicals In Your Hot Dog
In the upside-down world of labeling, hot dogs can be “all-natural” even if they contain nitrates.
Read & DiscussShould We Have Legal Protection Against Fat Discrimination?
Two sociologists make a compelling case for eradicating fat stigma. Even with legal protection, it's going to be a formidable task.
Read & DiscussShould Burger King Do More Than Just Hint at Apple Fries?
Optimal defaults could change fast-food orders. Companies should go a step further and offer discounts for healthier choices.
Read & DiscussWhy Your Parents' Love (of Vegetables) Matters
We start learning about the flavors of healthy food even before we're born. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean we'll be able to afford them later on.
Read & DiscussHave Slaves Touched Your Tomatoes? 'Tomatoland' Says Yes
Take heed, caprese salad eaters: Florida's fresh tomato industry is ripe for a take-down.
Read & DiscussIs It Better to Provide Health Food or to Eliminate Junk Food?
When it comes to the fight against obesity, what's more important: access to healthy food or barriers to unhealthy food?
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