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Unorthodox Foods for Mother’s Day
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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Mythology and the Raw Milk Movement
What’s behind recent claims about a milky unpasteurized panacea?
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Was America Named for a Pickle Dealer?
Amerigo Vespucci wasn’t entirely heroic—just ask Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Cost of “No” on Potato Chips
What can snack food marketing tell us about political campaigns?
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Magical Thinking and Food Revulsion
Carol Nemeroff studies why certain foods, such as feces-shaped fudge, pink slime, or recycled tap water, gross us out
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The World’s Most Expensive Vegetable
Long before hops cones were used to make beer bitter, hops shoots were eaten as a spring green
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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
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Colonel Curmudgeon and KFC’s Mascot Problem
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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How the Titanic Tragedy Reshaped the Fishing Industry
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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Where Did Katniss Get Its Name?
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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The Stories Behind Five Famous Advertising Characters
Inspired by the Sriracha Flamethrower Grizzly, a look back at some of the great icons of food branding
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Fiddlehead Ferns: How Dangerous is the First Taste of Spring?
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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What Does Sweetness Sound Like?
Lab experiments show that we associate different sounds with different flavors, and that sounds influence how foods taste
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Double-baked biscuits with a long shelf life were the food of choice for European travelers, and the tins they were packaged in are now collector’s items
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Making Noise and Selling Ice Cream
Put the bumpy, sour, off-key sound of a mobile ice cream vendor on repeat and play it loud, and you’ve got an infectious earworm
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The Sound of Success, Mobile Food Truck Edition
What does a folk song have to do with food trucks, Good Humor bars and the Beach Boys?
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S-O-F-T Double E, Mister Softee
A one-man band of an adman recorded an infectious three-minute earworm that will disrupt your sanity this summer
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Meet Food “Information Artist” Douglas Gayeton
The images convey invisible or purposely obfuscated ideas related to food, explained by the experts themselves
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