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Shark Fin Soup in Hot Water

Perhaps it's time to start teaching kids useful kitchen skills in home economics classes.

Is Home Economics Class Still Relevant?

"Too many Americans simply don't know how to cook," says a historian, and that has contributed to a health crisis

School lunch program poster

What’s Cooking Uncle Sam: A Must-See Show at the National Archives

The show was a revelation for exhibiting the breadth of the government's involvement in our food

Salisbury steak TV dinner

Salisbury Steak: Civil War Health Food

After 30 years of research Dr. Salisbury finally published his ideas, setting off one of the earliest American fad diets

Screenshot of the Food Desert Locator home page.

New Tool Maps Food Deserts in the U.S.

Approximately 23.5 million Americans are living in food deserts, most of whom live in urban areas

Cinco de Mayo: Who Prepares Your Food?

Hispanics are a major presence in the American food system—and the largest Hispanic group in the country is of Mexican origin

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Should You Keep an Emergency Food Stash?

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Way-Underage Drinking: How Young Is Too Young?

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Ban the Bag: Should Kids Be Forbidden From Bringing Lunch to School?

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Food Dye Origins: When Margarine Was Pink

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What Is the "Right to Farm" and Who Has It?

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Good News for Food Safety

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Major Moments in U.S. Food Law

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Food in the News: Volcano Troubles, Energy Sources and School Lunches

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Bureaucracy Is Good?

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The Decade in Food News

The first decade of the millennium may have been a good one for cuisine, but it was a mixed bag in terms of food-related news

The Soviet leader makes his entrance at 20th Century Fox on September 19, 1959.  He would call Can-Can exploitive and pornographic.

Nikita Khrushchev Goes to Hollywood

Lunch with the Soviet leader was Tinseltown's hottest ticket, with famous celebrities including Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin

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Frivolous Food Lawsuits

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Is It Safe To Eat Pork?

In a once strife-torn Belfast neighborhood (where murals today dramatize a message of hope), reconciliation is taking hold.  Even so, says Father Aidan Troy, formerly of a Belfast parish, progress must be nurtured day by day: "Peace is a delicate plant."

In Northern Ireland, Getting Past the Troubles

A decade after Protestants and Catholics agreed on a peace treaty, both sides are adjusting to a hopeful new reality

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