Farming
Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit’s Juicy Past
The perfect back-to-school treat has a colorful past that once brought the wrath of an axe-wielding reformer
Today Was the World’s Biggest Food Fight, Welcome to La Tomatina
What does it look like when 40,000 people start throwing 100 metric tons of tomatoes at each other?
1931′s Remote-Controlled Farm of the Future
The farmer of tomorrow wears a suit to work and sits at a desk that looks oddly familiar to those of us here in the year 2012
The Peas that Smelled the Leaky Pipe
In 1901, a 17-year-old Russian discovered the gas that tells fruits to ripen
The World’s Most Expensive Vegetable
Long before hops cones were used to make beer bitter, hops shoots were eaten as a spring green
The Legumes of War: How Peanuts Fed the Confederacy
Food shortages were a problem for both military and civilians. But even in these hard times, people could find relief in peanuts
Mysterious Exploding Foam is Bursting Barns
One explosion raised a barn roof several feet in the air and blew the hog farmer 30 or 40 feet from the door
Food and Video Games
Video games may be the art medium of the 21st century, but they're also an advertising medium. Here are five notable games that promoted foods
Super-Sized Food of the Future
How do you eat an eight-foot-long ear of corn?
1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse
Kids predict the darndest things
Fruits and Vegetables Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
Microscopy artist Robert Rock Belliveau says, "I couldn't believe the things I found on the things we eat every day"
Jose Andres and Other Toques of the Town Honor Alice Waters
What do you cook for famed chef Alice Waters? Washington's culinary celebrities faced this challenge at the unveiling of her portrait at the Smithsonian
Sunday Funnies Blast Off Into the Space Age
When Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus met President Kennedy in 1962, JFK told him, "The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip."
Artisanal Wheat On the Rise
Giving factory flour the heave-ho, small farmers from New England to the Northwest are growing long-forgotten varieties of wheat
A Thanksgiving Meal (in-a-pill)
The future of food was envisioned by many prognosticators as entirely meatless and often synthetic
Five Ways to Eat Cabbage
It's versatile and found in cuisines throughout the globe. Stuff it, fry it, shred it and more
California’s Disappearing Apple Orchards
In Sonoma County, apple growers battle against the wine industry and cheap Chinese imports
How the Potato Changed the World
Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture
Five Ways to Cook With Pumpkin
It's time to think outside the pie crust and consider other ways you can put pumpkin on your table
The Sweet Sound of… Vegetables?
Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra makes music by thunking on pumpkins and making carrot recorders and cucumberphones
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