
The 30 Project launches in San Francisco with a simple mission: have dinner, change the world.

Burnt coffee, medicinal beer, and Ball jars are on the menu in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!

Helena Bottemiller makes sense of U.S. food policy—and shares a behind-the-scenes peek at the preparations for a White House State Dinner.

Your handy bookmark-able guide to the all-you-can-read extravaganza of ideas, stories, opinions, and proposals that was GOOD's Food for Thinkers week.

Recipes for transgenic foods, the ethics of cyborg Jainism, lunar agriculture, and Harry Potter at the farmers' market: food for future thinkers.

From dried fish bones in Qatar and early descriptions of the tomato in English cookbooks to the difficulty of reconstructing historical kitchens.

Jeremy Cherfas explores the relationship between the remarkable history of human stunting and the future of genetically engineered biofortified crops.

Feedlots and chicken fried steak: James Reeves on the moral grey zone at the heart of his relationship with food.

On their blog, Ideas in Food, Aki Kamozawa and Alex Talbot are writing in the pursuit of extreme culinary rigor.

Food writing relies on sensory overload, music writing on linguistic agility, but both, Drew Tewskbury explains, communicate the invisible.

Food + Tech Connect's Danielle Gould finds that writing is her most important tool to build a more transparent, data-driven food system.

Paula Crossfield's compelling vision of a food journalism that can bring farmers and eaters together to share what does work and fix what doesn't.

Lisa Bramen has some fun asking whether contemporary food fetishization has "Gone Too Far."

Jonah Campbell resents any attempt to justify writing about food. And he doesn't like the term "foodie" either.

Annie Wang of Frites and Fries wonder what a food writer is to do, now that the internet has turned everyone into an expert?

Friends of the Pleistocene examine contemporary foodscapes for traces of geologic time, from seed vaults to radioactive salt.

Architect Nick Sowers asks why high-end kitchen design relegates food behind smooth, generic, and glossy surfaces.