Climate Food and Agriculture
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Food Studies: future terroir
What can the taste of place mean in a country only three and half times bigger than Washington D.C.?
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Buy a dozen, give a dozen
What happens when the TOMS Shoes -- get a pair, give a pair -- model gets applied to food? A New York program is trying it out with pastured eggs.
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Food Studies: the science of cookie texture
Water activity and moisture migration sound complex, but make all the difference between chewy and crispy cookies.
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Wall Street and ethanol cause starvation, say scientists
Today's supervillains are soooo boring. If only they'd wear tights and touch entrapped damsels’ hair in a way that made us uncomfortable, we'd be up for patriotically pistol-whipping them, Captain America style. Instead we find out that Wall Street and ethanol -- a diffuse network of trading computers and a colorless inebriant, respectively -- are the reason billions are going hungry in the developing world. How are we supposed to launch a hideously expensive vendetta-war against that?
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Could you go without processed foods for a month?
For even the most health conscious among us, a diet free of processed foods presents a challenge. Give it a try this month.
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Motor City mulch [VIDEO]
A Detroit couple leading the urban-ag uprising there explain how city folks have farmed for years, but "then, the hipsters came along."
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Is Walmart allergic to Pollan?
Food guru Michael Pollan goes toe-to-toe with a Walmart VP to ask: Can the processed food giant ever be a friend to food reformers?
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Kickstarting on-demand heirloom produce
A new online project takes the traditional CSA model one step further by allowing eaters to help decide what heirloom produce farmers plant.
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Labor pains on the farm
Farmers hoping to battle the Great Recession by hiring out-of-work locals in lieu of legal migrants struggle to keep them on the farm. Americans may have gone "soft," but rural depopulation is the root of the problem.
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What worms eat for breakfast
Our budding Worm Mistress settles in to life with the wrigglers and discovers that it's not as complicated as she feared.
