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Why are the lees at the bottom of a wine or cider barrel named for your female parent?
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I dug some more into how food companies are positioning their products for this time of year, and some of my findings were, well, unconventional
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What's behind recent claims about a milky unpasteurized panacea?
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Amerigo Vespucci wasn't entirely heroic—just ask Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What can snack food marketing tell us about political campaigns?
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Carol Nemeroff studies why certain foods, such as feces-shaped fudge, pink slime, or recycled tap water, gross us out
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Long before hops cones were used to make beer bitter, hops shoots were eaten as a spring green
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Food shortages were a problem for both military and civilians. But even in these hard times, people could find relief in peanuts
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The eleventh installment of the festival is underway in Manhattan
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Design strategies for arid regions go back centuries, but in the face of climate change, drylands design is a whole new ballgame
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Colonel Sanders thought the quality of his chicken had "slipped mightily" and the whole culture of fast food appeared to disgust him
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Alarmed by the sinking of the ocean liner, a radio pioneer devised a way to detect icebergs—and then submarines, reefs and schools of fish
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Abalone divers die of exhaustion, heart attacks, or becoming entangled in kelp. The fear of being eaten by a great white shark is persistent and haunting
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The tuber that gave its name to the heroine of the Hunger Games books has its roots in an era when European explorers met native Americans
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Pawpaws are scarcely cultivated and even more rarely sold in markets, so pack a machete and a fruit bowl and get thee to the backwoods of Kentucky
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Inspired by the Sriracha Flamethrower Grizzly, a look back at some of the great icons of food branding
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The French botanist named 6,700 species in a manic quest for fame. But did his taste for wild foods do him in?
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Revisiting James Cameron's epic blockbuster, once again in theaters, as we also update the news on several recent posts
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