Our love affair with fake meat is ending
The Beyond Burger took a downturn in 2022 — was our taste for meatless meat always doomed?
Candy canes are red and white no more
Appreciated for their sheer breadth of flavors and stocking stuffer potential, candy canes have come a long way
Picky eater? It could be in your DNA
Ever wondered why people can’t agree on what foods taste good?
The long road to adapting Octavia Butler
The first Black woman to win the Nebula and Hugo awards, Butler loved a genre that took its time loving her back
Can you afford "The White Lotus" hotels?
If you found Tanya & Co.'s travels aspirational, here's what you need to know
Climate change charges up winter storms
Winter storms are a normal part of this time of year. Yet climate change is making them more severe
How to cook a butternut squash
Plus, how not to take down your entire kitchen (and sanity) with a squash spill
The Menu and the horror of restaurants
While "The Menu" plays with anxieties about food, it is more emphatically about the restaurant trade
Israel veers into far-right extremism
If this racist and ultra-nationalist government is as bad as it looks, a deadly third intifada is coming soon
Even if Harry & Meghan "win," they lose
The ratings prove this couple can draw attention. But their love story gets in the way of the points they're making
Avatar 2 is clichéd Free Willy in Space
The best part of the film can be found in depths of Pandora's oceans, but is undermined by shallow characterization
Musk reinstates suspended journalists
"The people have spoken"
What happens when an oil pipeline leaks?
Oil leaks can be devastating to the environment, but much of the destruction is often invisible
Trump braces for DOJ referral
"Our Country is SICK inside, very much like a person dying of Cancer," Trump said on Saturday morning
Joe Biden and the lessons of 1968
Everyone thought Lyndon Johnson would cruise to renomination in 1968. There's a lesson there for Joe Biden
PG&E layoffs could worsen fire season
The layoffs spell danger for fire season
2022: The year in conspiracy theories
Deranged beliefs flooded the Republican zone in 2022 — but somehow, voting late on Election Day didn't help them
Is Trump running to dodge prosecution?
Multiple people close to Trump say he sees a campaign as a shield against potential DOJ action
Puerto Ricans fleeing to Florida
The state's affordable housing crisis has made it almost impossible for storm victims to get back on their feet
A hotter, wetter Arctic in the future
The planet's "refrigerator" is breaking, scientists warn
Amazon's plastic waste increased in 2021
Amazon says it generated 214 million pounds of plastic waste in 2021. An advocacy group says it was 3 times that
CIA keeps working with abusive forces
Intelligence agencies exempt from law banning support for foreign security forces that commit human rights abuses
Lights, camera, Taylor Swift!
Swift's feature film might be “more comedic, irreverent” than her heartbreaking songs — and it could actually work
How your emissions threaten biodiversity
It is time to pay attention to the other climate crisis: species extinction