Food

Cool Finds

Chicago Is Getting a Pizza Museum

Hold the anchovies: This pop-up is a pizza-lover’s dream

March 31, 2016

New Research

The Secret Behind Your Favorite Coffee Could Be Yeast

Researchers find three unique strains of yeast that help ferment coffee and cacao beans and may give the treats their unique flavors

March 28, 2016

Why People Turn to Lemurs and Other Endangered Animals for Dinner in Madagascar

A close look at trade in bushmeat finds that consumption is common and out in the open

March 25, 2016

What Questlove Has to Say About Today’s Food-Obsessed Culture

In a new book, the bandleader and hip-hop star stirs up music and cooking

April 2016

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Facing a Biscuit Shortage, British Citizens Get an Emergency Shipment Flown in From Dubai

The shortage isn’t the only biscuit-related scandal to strike teatime recently

March 15, 2016

New Research

A Taste for Raw Meat May Have Helped Shape Human Evolution

Stone tools might have let our ancestors more easily chew and digest meat, which in turn may have changed our teeth and jaws

March 9, 2016

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Italy Thinks Its ‘Za Should Be a United Nations Cultural Treasure

Italy wants its Neapolitan pizza to be added to Unesco’s cultural heritage list

March 9, 2016

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Italian City Bans New “Ethnic” Restaurants

Verona, the home of Romeo and Juliet, is preventing new eateries from opening that primarily serve kebabs, gyros and fried food

March 4, 2016

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The FDA Will Ban a Common Pesticide

Flubendiamide is used in about 200 crops like almonds and soybeans

March 2, 2016

New Research

Good News, Foodies: Truffles Are Not Stuffed With Chernobyl Radiation

Unlike some mushrooms in Europe, truffles do not seem to be accumulating radiation leftover from the infamous nuclear disaster

February 25, 2016

Your Guide to Everyone’s Favorite Winter Citrus: Clementines

Seedless, sweet, easy to peel, and portable. But where did clementines come from? And what are satsumas, mandarines, and tangerines?

February 23, 2016

New Research

This Penguin on a Treadmill Shows How Waddles Work

Fat penguins have a harder time walking than swimming

February 22, 2016

Cool Finds

This Stunning Dragon Dance Was All for the Sake of Tea

Your next cup could be filled with New Year’s luck

February 19, 2016

Trending Today

Wander About Inside This Giant Cake Sculpture

Try to refrain from eating the art

February 17, 2016

New Research

Millennials Drink More Wine Than Anyone Else

The much-maligned generation has a penchant for vino

February 17, 2016

Oklahoma City Is Becoming a Hotspot for Vietnamese Food

Southeast Asian immigrants are spicing up America’s fast-food capital with banh mi, curried frogs’ legs and pho

March 2016

New Research

Messy Kitchens Could Make You Eat More

Researchers put participants in the world’s most stressful kitchen for the sake of science

February 16, 2016

Cool Finds

Chow Down on a Plastic-Eating Fungus

Plastic trash could have a delicious future

February 15, 2016

Podcast: Farming Shaped the Rise and Fall of Empires in Cambodia

Beneath the country’s troubled history with the Khmer Rouge lies a complex agricultural legacy that reaches back centuries

February 12, 2016

Melt-Proof Chocolate, 3D Printed Gummies and Other Fascinating Candy Patents

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a quick look at some of the world’s most fascinating confectionery innovations

February 10, 2016