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.
At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.
Pouchification: convenience, efficiency, and the environmental impact of our great shift to plastic.
Food, especially seemingly modest ingredients, is a way to signify wealth and luxury tastes. Fashion and design are an extension of that. Wearing food as a design choice signals both that we have a palate for that product and that we can afford it.
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.
Once upon a time, Americans riding the rails could choose menus of charbroiled steak, golden French toast, and prunes.
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength.
The report highlights how market concentration in key sectors, such as the trading of agriculture commodities, has grown since 2020, deepening the asymmetry between the profits of top multinational enterprises and declining labour share globally.
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?
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