Environment
Building Trust: From Boat to Plate, More Info about Seafood Is a Good Thing [Video]
New report indicates the benefits and feasibility of seafood traceability
Food Matters
Giving science a seat at the table
Health
How the Japanese Diet Became the Japanese Diet
Japan successfully transformed its diet into one that is healthy and delicious within one generation.
The Sciences
The Case of the Missing Microbes
The standard techniques for looking at the diversity of microbial populations may be missing a substantial quantity of important bacteria. Unfortunately, there’s not an easy fix.&..
Health
"Meat without Misery"--Sam Harris and Memphis Meats CEO
Meat grown in a lab? What's not to love?
The Sciences
In Syria, Considering the Unintended Impact of Emergency Food Aid
Food shortages may have been a contributing factor and a deliberate tactic in Syria’s multi-faceted and complex ongoing conflict. A paper recently published in International Affairs examines the emergency food relief response and suggests it may be contradictory in nature--having far reaching political implications despite claims of neutrality and worsening the conditions it intends to alleviate...
The Sciences
Organically Speaking: The Marketing Language of Organic Food
Foods themselves might be a mouthful but the accompanying language used to describe foods can say a mouthful. Guy Cook, an applied linguist and Professor of Language in Education at King’s College, explains, “We are influenced by what is said about food offered to us, as much as by the food itself.” Part of his research has explored the influence of language in the marketing of organic food...
The Sciences
Thinking outside the Pancake Box: Moving beyond Jemima to Reclaim African-American Culinary Contributions
Toni Tipton-Martin's new book, The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African-American Cookbooks explores 200 years of culinary contributions that challenge the pervasive mammy stereotype...
The Sciences
It's Beginning to Taste A Lot Like Christmas: Holiday Foods as Invented Traditions
Christmas foods are a relatively recent, and some might say, invented tradition.
The Sciences
Not Gone with the Wind--The Perpetuation of the Mammy Stereotype
Following the end of the Civil War, a Confederate general remembered pancakes a former slave made for him while he was stranded in her cabin. The fond memories led the general to connect the woman, Aunt Jemima, with a milling company in Chicago...
Health
Your Poop Knows Best--New Study Shows Microbiome Can Help Predict Health Responses to Certain Foods
A new study published in the journal Cell found that blood glucose responses between individuals to even the same foods can vary widely.
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