Food

Grossest Thanksgiving recipes

Heart stoppers, belly bombers and the just plain bizarre. Ten dishes to avoid this holiday

Katie Mcdonough Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 3:00 PM UTC
Life rachael ray, gross, Guy Fieri

“We’ve become a food culture”

Food critic Ruth Reichl explains how immigrants made -- and continue to transform -- American cuisine

Sophie Roell, The Browser Monday, Nov 19, 2012 12:45 PM UTC
Life Between Meals, AJ Liebling

Israel calculated calories for Gazans

If considerations of food capping determined blockade details, UN humanitarian principles were violated

Natasha Lennard Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 4:36 PM UTC 11
News Hamas, Gaza, Israel-Palestine

Scientist: Humans ate pandas

But not for thousands of years

Associated Press Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 2:45 PM UTC 10
Life Animals, History, Asia, China, Food

Food-stamp reliance at record high, overpayments at all-time low

Only 1 percent of program expenditures are lost to fraud or abuse

Natasha Lennard Friday, Oct 12, 2012 8:30 PM UTC 16
News Food, Poverty, Food Stamps, SNAP

Red Lobster, Olive Garden hire part-timers to avoid Obamacare

Chain restaurant corporation experimenting with ways to offset Affordable Care Act costs

Natasha Lennard Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 3:47 PM UTC 35
Life Red Lobster, Labor Rights

For-profit inspectors allow toxic food

A Bloomberg Markets investigation shows dangers of food industry taking over from FDA

Natasha Lennard Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 10:39 AM UTC
Business Food inspection, Regulation, FDA

Arsenic: It’s what’s for dinner

The government is perversely protecting the industries that release the killer chemical into society

Jill Richardson, Alternet Monday, Oct 8, 2012 1:52 PM UTC 10
Life Pfizer, Arsen, Arkansas, Missouri

Weird news: Philly museum benefit serves python, worms and crickets at event

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia will host an exotic cocktail party

Associated Press Friday, Oct 5, 2012 10:05 PM UTC
Life cocktail parties, Philadelphia

Stop buying expensive wine!

Our senses, and the brain centers that control pleasure, are easily fooled by expectations -- and price

Chris Berdik Sunday, Sep 30, 2012 8:00 PM UTC 22
Life Robert Parker, Wine, Neuroscience

Weird news: Chef accidentally killed wife, then cooked her

And now the cruel internet is turning up old reviews of the restaurant where it happened

Prachi Gupta Friday, Sep 21, 2012 9:59 PM UTC
News Food, Weird news

Where does gluttony come from?

Scientists have traced the region of the brain responsible for intense overeating

Daisy Yukas, Scientific American Friday, Sep 21, 2012 8:33 PM UTC
Life Mice, Biology, Gluttony

Monsanto crops cause tumors

A French study finds rats fed GMO corn die prematurely

Natasha Lennard Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 10:08 PM UTC 12
News Research, Corn Crops

Star chefs turn to Mexican haute cuisine

Chefs discover the appeal of "real" Mexican cuisine

Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 3:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Food, From the Wires

Big story you missed

America trashes 40 percent of its food supply

Jaime Cone Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012 11:24 PM UTC 14
Life the environment, Global Warming

El Niño to worsen food woes

As drought parches the US, Mexico and Chile, meteorologists warn El Niño could further devastate food supplies

Simeon Tegel, GlobalPost Thursday, Aug 16, 2012 2:19 PM UTC
News GlobalPost, El Nino, drought, Food

What the media missed about Chick-fil-A

There's more to the fast-food saga than you might think

Kristin Rawls, Alternet Saturday, Aug 11, 2012 1:00 PM UTC 18
Politics AlterNet, Chick-fil-A, LGBTQ, Food

Dumb tweets of the day

Pondering Chick-fil-A after the chain said it supported “the biblical definition of the family unit"

Salon Staff Friday, Aug 3, 2012 11:17 PM UTC
Life Dumb tweet of the day, Twitter

My lifelong diet

I started watching what I ate at the age of 9. I didn't realize that I had started a dieting career

Emily Elert, gilttaste.com Thursday, Aug 2, 2012 11:40 PM UTC
Life gilttaste.com, Dieting, Anorexia

Anorexia’s scary online empire

Nothing tastes as good as blogging feels

Tara Storozynsky, Cluster Mag Saturday, Jul 28, 2012 12:00 PM UTC
Life Cluster Mag, The Internet

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