Portside

Meat grown in vats, grown from the cells of animals, may be the next course on the menu.

Bitcoin, an application of technology called blockchain, is a novel approach to data management that has a host of uses.

The mystery about why the Portland restaurant, named the best burger place, closed.

In the book, “Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat,” Marion Nestle, emerita professor of nutrition at New York University, discusses how the unstated goal of most company-sponsored studies is to increase the bottom line.

Protesting wartime food shortages, thousands of women in 1917 protested with food riots and boycotts.

Congressman John Delaney of Maryland nominated Chef Jose Andrés for a Nobel Peace Prize in honor of his work in feeding people in disaster zones, from Puerto Rico and Guatemala to the recent Camp Fire in California.

Butterball's Turkey Hot Line was started in 1981 with 6 operators; today's operators number over 50 and answer 10,000 calls on Thanksgiving.

Peanut butter, despite its high fat content, is a nutritional treasure, full of protein, fiber, minerals and vitamins.

Thousands of types of rice are cooked throughout the world in more than 100 countries.

Judy Chicago’s “A Dinner Party” inspired a meal at the Museum of Food and Drink, in Brooklyn, honoring four women out of the thirty-nine in Chicago’s work. The trickiest part proved to be finding recipes from the relevant eras.