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Unorthodox Foods for Mother’s Day

I dug some more into how food companies are positioning their products for this time of year, and some of my findings were, well, unconventional

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Mythology and the Raw Milk Movement

What's behind recent claims about a milky unpasteurized panacea?

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Was America Named for a Pickle Dealer?

Amerigo Vespucci wasn't entirely heroic—just ask Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Cost of “No” on Potato Chips

What can snack food marketing tell us about political campaigns?

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The Shangri-La of Health Food

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Magical Thinking and Food Revulsion

Carol Nemeroff studies why certain foods, such as feces-shaped fudge, pink slime, or recycled tap water, gross us out

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The World’s Most Expensive Vegetable

Long before hops cones were used to make beer bitter, hops shoots were eaten as a spring green

Peanuts

The Legumes of War: How Peanuts Fed the Confederacy

Food shortages were a problem for both military and civilians. But even in these hard times, people could find relief in peanuts

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What to See at the Tribeca Film Festival

The eleventh installment of the festival is underway in Manhattan

Hydrologic Commonwealths for the American West, proposed by John Wesley Powell, 1879

Design for a Water-Scarce Future

Design strategies for arid regions go back centuries, but in the face of climate change, drylands design is a whole new ballgame

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Colonel Curmudgeon and KFC’s Mascot Problem

Colonel Sanders thought the quality of his chicken had "slipped mightily" and the whole culture of fast food appeared to disgust him

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Where Are All the Ramps Going?

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How the Titanic Tragedy Reshaped the Fishing Industry

Alarmed by the sinking of the ocean liner, a radio pioneer devised a way to detect icebergs—and then submarines, reefs and schools of fish

These Northern California abalone divers have bagged their limits and are out of the water again safely. On some "ab" dives, tragic accidents happen.

The Most Dangerous Game: Chasing a Sea Snail?

Abalone divers die of exhaustion, heart attacks, or becoming entangled in kelp. The fear of being eaten by a great white shark is persistent and haunting

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Where Did Katniss Get Its Name?

The tuber that gave its name to the heroine of the Hunger Games books has its roots in an era when European explorers met native Americans

A farmer in the Congo harvests jackfruit, the largest tree fruit in the world.

More Fruits Worth a Voyage Around the World

Pawpaws are scarcely cultivated and even more rarely sold in markets, so pack a machete and a fruit bowl and get thee to the backwoods of Kentucky

The Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, Minnesota

The Stories Behind Five Famous Advertising Characters

Inspired by the Sriracha Flamethrower Grizzly, a look back at some of the great icons of food branding

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Fiddlehead Ferns: How Dangerous is the First Taste of Spring?

The French botanist named 6,700 species in a manic quest for fame. But did his taste for wild foods do him in?

Captain Edward Smith purportedly on the Titanic, but actually filmed a year earlier aboard the Olympic.

Quick Takes: Titanic, Rear Window, Orphan Films and A Trip to the Moon Redux

Revisiting James Cameron's epic blockbuster, once again in theaters, as we also update the news on several recent posts

Starchy staple of the tropics, the breadfruit is often fried or baked and eaten like potatoes.

Exotic Fruits to Eat Locally When Traveling Globally

The crimson fruits occur by the millions, and fishermen, tequila-sipping cowboys, and even a few tourists take to the desert to pursue the pitahaya

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