Food

Wet Weather Causes Shortage of Pumpkins (and Pie)

Intense summer rains cut pumpkin yields in half

Feast Your Eyes on an Optical Illusion Cake

This may be the most delicious optical illusion

How Decorative Gourd Season Conquered Fall

Strange-looking squash have become big business for farmers

The dining room on the Titanic

A Lunch Menu From the Titanic Just Sold for $88,000

The "unsinkable" ship served corned beef, mutton chops and custard pudding

Americans Used to Eat Four Meals a Day

Rest in peace, “second supper”

How to Harvest and Dry Herbs

A guide to keeping a little bit of summer in your meals far into winter

How Italian Police Finally Busted Thieves for Nabbing $875,000 in Cheese

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world

Tired of Apples? Pick These Exotic Fall Fruits Instead

Here's where to find pawpaws, persimmons and other unusual fruits in the wild

A spectacled fruit bat hangs out in search of its next meal. Many bats eat nectar with grooved tongues that are posing quite a mystery for scientists.

This Bat's Tongue Works Like a Conveyor Belt

The unique tongues are raising new questions for scientists

Artisanal Pizza is Boosting the Coal Industry

Pizzerias are a new and growing market for coal companies

A Guide to Buying Ethical Coffee

How to make sense of the beans that promote sustainable agriculture and humane worker rights

Can you resist the temptation of a midnight snack?

Americans Are Eating Later, and That May Contribute to Weight Troubles

Our bodies didn't evolve to handle midnight pizzas

How Doughnut-Loving Cops Became a Stereotype

A sugar-sweet symbol for beat cops around the country

American Kids Are Obsessed With Apples

Apples make up 29 percent of the total fruit eaten by teens and kids in the United States

Screenshot from "How to Make a Sandwich - Chapter 11 Assembly"

Making a Sandwich From Scratch Took This Man Six Months

The chicken sandwich also racked up a total cost of $1,500

A Lima street vendor dishes up anticucho, grilled skewers that are traditionally prepared with marinated beef heart or tongue. It is a culinary tradition probably started by enslaved Africans here during the Spanish colonization.

How Food Became Religion in Peru's Capital City

Great cooking is what defines Lima today, but the culinary boom started decades ago, during a time of conflict

A robot serves a customer at a restaurant in northeast China in 2012

Dining in the Future: Predictions for Restaurant Eating in 2040

Eateries may include more tech and fewer humans on staff

Sweden Has a Hotel for Sourdough Starters

Boarding bread is the new doggy day care.

1,000 years ago, Native Americans in the Southwest likely traded for cacao beans from far-away parts of Mexico and South America.

Early Americans Went to Great Lengths to Get Caffeine

Pottery shards reveal 1,000-year-old traces of caffeine in places where it wasn't readily available

Nima food allergen detector

Test Your Restaurant Meal for Allergens in Two Minutes

Nima, a handheld food analyzer, can test for gluten on the spot

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