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Just 40 bucks in cash, a warm sleeping bag and plenty of wine carry the author through his final days in Ecuador, in the remote high country outside of Quito
March 08, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
The Harris family struck gold when they introduced the ice house to England in 1856, but what were the costs of their innovation?
April 15, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
How a struggling entrepreneur in Ohio saved his burger business during Lent and changed the McDonald's menu for good.
March 01, 2013
| By K. Annabelle Smith
The spectrum of the fruit here is almost as varied as the people who grow them, and for avo advocates, Ecuador is a excellent place to go tasting
February 26, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
From the late-19th century to the 1970s, restaurants had one surefire way of standing out
February 26, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
For the first time in their lifetimes, these teenagers got to enjoy the thrill of a fresh layer of snow
February 25, 2013
| By Caroline Lacey
Ready-made meals, good for months on a pantry shelf, work for busy nights, camping trips and power outages
February 22, 2013
| By Marina Koren
It may get cold, but the trolls, bobsleds, skiing, Scandinavian delicacies and (heated) art museums make it all worthwhile
February 25, 2013
| By Laura Kiniry
Making healthy foods like tomatoes more palatable may increase our desire to eat these foods while decreasing our gravitation towards sugary snacks
February 20, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
Life in this legendary town in Ecuador's Valley of Longevity may be too good—and too long—to be true
February 20, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
The more salt we eat, the more we crave. This new approach to less-salty cooking might help you step off the treadmill
February 19, 2013
| By Twilight Greenaway
Ten years ago, the spice company identified chipotle as a taste on the rise. They're back at it again with new predictions for 2013
February 15, 2013
| By Marina Koren
The sugarcane trail takes the author across the Andes, into home liquor distilleries and from juice shack to juice shack as he pursues fermented sugarcane wine
February 14, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
Each year on April 14, singles in South Korea drown their sorrows in a bowl of black noodles
February 13, 2013
| By K. Annabelle Smith
Aiming to catch a few trout for dinner, the author decides to try his luck at one of the region's many "sport fishing" sites
February 12, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
Dominic Episcopo's red and raw images capture the spirit of Americana.
February 11, 2013
| By K. Annabelle Smith
An unfortunate run in with a mutt in Ecuador turned into a trip to the doctor's to be treated for rabies, a surprisingly fatal disease
February 07, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
Colored sawdust instead of saffron? Corn syrup instead of honey? It's all in the newly updated USP Food Fraud Database
February 04, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
A lack of snow is affecting the annual Iditarod sled dog race
February 06, 2013
| By Colin Schultz
On January 31, France's minister of women's rights made if officially impossible to arrest a woman for wearing pants in Paris
February 05, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
No, it’s not Brent Spiner. It's an honest-to-goodness robot
February 01, 2013
| By Lauren Kirchner
In a record-breaking dive, the head of the Russian Geographical Society sunk to the bottom of Lake Labynkyr in Siberia, one of the coldest lakes in the world
February 04, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
America's Biggest Game brings excitement, curiosity and some boredom to Ecuador
February 04, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
How the wing went from a throwaway to a delicacy in 50 years
February 01, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Give a man a glass of water, and you may quench his thirst. But teach him to build a water filter, as Rod and Ingrid McCarroll are doing, and he'll have clean water for life
February 01, 2013
| By Alastair Bland
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