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Egg prices were up 28% in last month’s price report.Typically, when the price of something rises by as much as eggs have this past year, people will buy less of it.That’s not the case with eggs. Demand for eggs is relatively inelastic.

New research argues that after peaches were introduced by Europeans, they spread across the eastern U.S. with the help of Indigenous peoples who structured the ecology and the land to be appropriate for peaches to grow and they tended the plants.

Proposed language in the House Farm Bill would explicitly introduce political interests to and harm the integrity of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—the foundation of school meal programs, SNAP, WIC, and other necessary nutrition programs.

Grocery prices are still up from prepandemic numbers in the U.S. but— relatively speaking — they are the cheapest in the world.

Health halo refers to the perception that a food product is generally good for us based on a single claim, casting subliminal power over our diets and dollars.

It was women who ran the hostel services and food kitchens in the League of Coloured Peoples in the 1930–50s; and women who made sure that the minutes of meetings and conferences were kept. They are why we have this important history.

Koda Farms, the family-owned rice farm in Merced County, which Keisaburo Koda started 97 years ago, is shutting down. Its rice is prized by chefs and home cooks alike.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) filed suit against Tuson Foods claiming it is making “unsubstantiated environmental claims” about its products – known colloquially as greenwashing.

There may be no better case for the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-everything society America is becoming than the flavors. What would America eat, and be, without immigrants?

Some produce purveyors offer exorbitantly priced fruit and claim unparalleled quality — but are we mostly paying for a status symbol?