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According to historian Alberto Grandi, if you want to eat the original Parmigiano like our great-grandparents used to eat, you should go to Milwaukee or Madison.

The pomegranate shows a marked versatility in its cultural connotations and connections.

Food superstitions are believed to bring luck, prosperity, health, wealth, and a range of other supposed benefits.

To be reliably more climate-friendly, we need to figure out which fixes might sync up with the ingrained habits we already have.

When Florida growers last attempted to plant coffee in the 1940s it “got frozen out,” unable to tolerate temperatures in the 40s and 50s.The number of freezing events per year has sharply decreased opening the possibility of growing crops like coffee

Chick-fil-A buys its chicken from a company fined by the Department of Labor for employing 14-year-olds to eviscerate poultry at an Alabama packing plant. Children also operated fork lifts, worked on the kill floor, and worked overnight shifts.

One Love Community, which offers free food for neighbors in need, operates 10 community fridges and supports 30 partner fridges in NY and Seattle, with LA and Atlanta to follow soon.

Studies show microplastics could have the unexpected effect of making foodborne illnesses even more dangerous than before.

The rise of cafés and tea houses in post-French Revolution Paris popularized the concept of single-portioned desserts as did France's powerful influence on culinary customs.

The Trump administration eliminated two food safety committees: the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection and National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a warning that food safety is not a USDA priority.