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The story of boiled peanuts is as complex, fraught, and global as the South itself. To acknowledge the complexity, and challenges, of their history is to acknowledge the ingenuity of the people who worked to preserve their culinary heritage.

At the world’s biggest conference on climate change, global leaders tried to make moves for a more sustainable food system.

In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions. Food waste accounts for as much as 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Governments around the world market influence through food. However, the way food is associated with identity, combined with diplomacy’s pursuit of the national interest, means gastrodiplomacy will always have at least a tinge of nationalism.

Chicken soup as a therapy can be traced back to 60 A.D. army surgeon whose five-volume medical encyclopedia was consulted by early healers for more than a millennium. But the origins of chicken soup go back thousands of years to ancient China.

In the popular imagination, vegan school lunch may seem like the exclusive provenance of big cities like New York, but the tide appears to have shifted significantly in much of the country.

Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.

Food as Medicine is an emerging concept and the focus of the Food as Medicine Policy Summit; and a range of food companies are ready and waiting with products to make the market.

The world’s first Ohlone restaurant closed after a one- year pilot. Now it’s coming back

Turkey is practical for serving to a large crowd. In England, King Henry VIII regularly enjoyed turkey on Christmas day a century before the Pilgrims’ feast.