In a world where organic “nitrite-free” meats are anything but, think twice before you slap some meat on the grill this weekend. Nitrogen...
Carolyn de la Peña, the author of Empty Pleasures, discusses diet foods, high fructose corn syrup, and what it would take to ditch artificial...
When Jack DeCoster was a high school sophomore, his father died and DeCoster inherited 100 chickens. By the time he graduated high school, the...
A list of the independent publications to satisfy your food-writing-on-paper cravings.
A new study finds that extra virgin olive oil is often anything but. What can you do to get the pure olive oil you're paying for? Ah yes, the...
Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish, talks about including fish in discussions of sustainable food. Fish are not like bison or farm-raised...
The federal government is looking into the fermented tea's alcohol content. That's not the only thing that's wrong with it. When Lindsay Lohan...
An offer 15 million unemployed Americans can refuse Harrington is in the heart of the Maine’s blueberry country, a place where close to 8,000...
The appointment of Holly Freishtat as Charm City's food policy director should be a lesson to other cities. On a sweltering, humid day in East...
Would a salt ban be a public health boon or just big government preventing us from eating what we want? Without salt, we probably wouldn’t...
Will fears about the oil spill's effect on seafood from the Gulf make us think more about where our fish comes from? There was a Ukrainian woman...
Their promise of fresh local food isn't always kept, but maybe that's not what farmers' markets are really about. Kids reach up from strollers to...
In his new book, Manny Howard unearths our cultural obsession for a gentler, less self-conscious involvement with the natural world. But it...
Thanks to agricultural subsidies, the least healthy foods are also the cheapest to buy. In 1933, Congress passed a cornerstone of New Deal...
A talk with Ben Hewitt, author of The Town that Food Saved, about what your town can learn from Vermont agriculture. Hardwick is a former...
Check out some of the year's most important stories written about food, all in the running for this week's Beard Awards. The James Beard...
Fighting for farmers' markets (and the walkable neighborhoods that come with them) In 1976, Barry Benepe co-founded the Greenmarket, the largest,...
The latest British invasion aims for the stomach—and misses. Well, sort of. Here is Jamie headed to Huntington, West Virginia, a place the...
