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Food

The Humdinger sandwich is a mother-in-law with melted cheese on top.

Searching for a Mother-in-Law Sandwich

Eager enthusiasts track Chicago’s indigenous—and sometimes endangered—food traditions

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Pass the Hoax, Please

Chile Pepper Institute director Paul Bosland had so many chili pepper recipes that when asked for his favorite, he sent two.

Can You Handle the Heat of Chili Peppers?

Learn how to stuff a jalapeno pepper and to give your brownies a spicy kick with two recipes involving chili peppers

Geoduck can be blanched, stir-fried or cooked up in chowder.

How to Cook a Geoduck

It not only doesn’t taste like chicken, it’s not even poultry. Learn how to cook a geoduck, a large clam

Nesselrode pudding.

At Home with the Darwins

Recipes offer an intimate glimpse into the life of Charles Darwin and his family

A ‘New Dawn’ for Ugly Vegetables

Crooked carrots, rejoice!

Women assemble tagua jewelry at the Tagueria in Bogota.

Colombia Dispatch 8: The Tagua Industry

Sometimes called “vegetable ivory,” tagua is a white nut that grows in Colombia that is making a comeback as a commodity worth harvesting

tomato stacks

Tomato Recipes

Chef Craig Von Foerster of Sierra Mar Restaurant at the Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California shares two of his favorite tomato recipes

The massive neoclassical market is divided into rows of icy seafood stalls and, in the attached building, kiosks filled with cuts of meat and butcher blocks.

Snapshot: Athens Central Market

More than 30,000 people mingle every day at Dimotiki Agora, the city’s busiest markets

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The Last Page: Duck and Cover

An awkward case of the Cordon blues

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