Food and Agriculture

Touring Joseph’s fields and cooking South Carolina gold [VIDEOS]

The Perennial Plate crew takes a tour of a South Carolina farm and makes a meal with chef Sean Brock.

Daniel Klein Food

McDonald’s sets itself up for a new social media fail

Sure, McDonald’s got bitten on the ass last time it tried to tick “leverage social media” off its corporate to-do list. But what is it supposed to do, learn? Apparently not, since it’s back in the Twitter game, and this time it’s chosen a hashtag that sounds filthy even before the haters get their hands on it.

Jess Zimmerman Food

Street food boom towns: Three West Coast case studies

They may never catch up to Portland, but neighboring cities Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., are making strides to put food carts front and center.

Eric Hess Cities

Lexicon of Sustainability: Eating down the food chain

The latest installment explains why eating fish lower on the food chain helps the ocean -- and offers up an easy sardine recipe to get you started.

Douglas Gayeton Food

The man who blew the whistle on ‘pink slime’

Glad to see so many people talking about getting ammonia-treated beef trimmings out of school lunch? You have this former Beef Products Inc. employee to thank.

Michele Simon Food

This suds for you: Taste-testing organic beer

It's a hard job, but somebody has to do it: In a blind taste test, Grist staffers drink and rate a selection of imported and domestic organic beers.

Ted Alvarez Food

A sudsy chat on beer — organic and otherwise — with Grist!

New Belgium Brewing's sustainability specialist Katie Wallace and Beer West Magazine's editor-in-chief Megan Flynn chatted with Grist readers on sustainable brews.

Grist staff Food

Home on the range: Can grass-based ranching be scaled up sustainably?

As new science reiterates the importance of cutting down on red meat, can a proposed grass-fed cattle ranch in Florida bring the eat-better-quality-meat-less-often approach to the mainstream?

Tom Laskawy Food

Faraway farms: Chronicling urban agriculture around the world

Filmmaker Karney Hatch set out to document urban farming outside the U.S. Here's a sneak preview of what he found.

Claire Thompson Agriculture

Trans fats linked to acting like a jerk

When New York City banned trans fats from local restaurants in 2006, it was trying to make its citizens healthier. Trans fatty acids — which, you’ll recall, are a type of unsaturated fat almost exclusively found in processed food — have a number of proven health effects, including raising bad cholesterol and lowering good cholesterol simultaneously. […]