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Meals on screen can convey a lot about history and culture.

The Spanish and Portuguese introduced peanuts to Africa from where they were transported to America via the slave trade; the word goober is the Kimbundu word, nguba, meaning “kidney shaped.”

Observational research has found that tea consumption of 2-3 cups daily is associated with a reduced risk of premature death, heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes; studies suggest potential benefits are due to its high polyphenol content.

Add these to your reading list to celebrate International Women’s Day.

In the humorless world of Woke, the satire is never funny and the statute of limitations never expires, even when it comes to hamantaschen.

Curbside produce vendors often help communities that lack a grocery store to maintain access to healthy, inexpensive food. But long before the pandemic, many cities made it difficult for mobile produce sellers and other street food vendors to operate

Much like language, cuisine obeys grammatical rules that vary from country to country; a cuisine’s grammar can be reflected in the order in which a meal is served, and a grammar can dictate which foods can (or cannot) be paired.

On Valentine’s Day, New Yorkers will be allowed to eat inside restaurants again. We shouldn’t.

This examination of how the digital world portrays food directly, represents people engaged in all aspects of food, and affects the politics and economics of the food world, foreshadows some of the directions the larger world of food is taking.

I’m not the first voice to plead that we never go back to normal.