food
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Americans spent $18.8 million in food stamps at farmers markets last year
At farmers markets, accepting SNAP benefits is a win for low-income shoppers – and farmers, too.
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Watch Mark Bittman explain the virtues of fast food
Bittman's new cookbook explains, step-by-step, how to cut all the dilly-dallying out of meal-making.
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Meat the press: What Rolling Stone’s scary farm exposé gets right — and wrong
The magazine's gore-filled investigation into animal farming brings the horror, but leaves context on the slaughterhouse floor.
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This restaurant fines customers who waste food
It’s harsh, but this policy is both eco-friendly and humanitarian.
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Look out! These cute penguins are cold-blooded killers
Japanese researchers put cameras on the backs of adorable Adelie penguins and sent them out to hunt. Generally, if you are interested in continuing to think an omnivorous animal is cute, you don't want to do this.
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Lincoln’s inaugural menu had every type of meat imaginable on it
In 1865, the Bill of Fare for President Lincoln’s first Inaugural Ball included pretty much every type of meat you can think of. There were oysters and turtles, chicken, turkey grouse, beef four different ways, duck, quail ham, tongue, and venison. (OK, no horse meat — this was still America, after all.) Even the salads were […]
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
By Janet Larsen The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because of droughts that devastated several major crops—namely corn in the United States (the world’s largest crop) and wheat in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Australia. Each […]
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Somehow horse meat made it into a bunch of burgers in Ireland and the U.K.
French people might enjoy horse meat every now and again, but the British, as a rule, do not. Nor do the Irish.
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Chocolate syrup made by, from, and for assholes
Here, we present the only food product we have ever encountered that needs to just GET OVER itself