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Chillies hanging out to dry in Bhutan.
food

Decoding Bhutan's Love Affair With Chili Peppers

In the small mountain country, spicy peppers dominate breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Charukesi Ramadurai November 2, 2017
Not the $10,000 dram.
bars

The $10,000 Whisky Dram That Turned Out to Be Worthless

A refund was involved.
Natasha Frost November 2, 2017
Spiderwebs help catch pesky fruit flies.
31 days of halloween

The Heritage Beer Brewed With Some Help From Spiders

When fruit flies love your beer, you don't mind a few webs in the brewery.
Anne Ewbank October 31, 2017
A Parisian inspects mushrooms growing in the tunnels underneath the city.
31 days of halloween

The Secret History of Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms

In the 1800s, farmers cultivated mushrooms in abandoned quarries underneath the French capital.
Emily Monaco October 31, 2017
Members of the Ichthyophagous Club are caricatured on a menu at one of their banquets.
food

The Club Dedicated to Eating Unconventional Aquatic Creatures

The Ichthyophagous Club changed America's relationship to seafood.
Anne Ewbank October 30, 2017
Poor Neapolitans rush to pillage this Cuccagna, built for the birth of Prince Phillip.
festivals

The Forgotten Italian Tradition of Building Monumental Food Palaces

Then destroying them in a literal hunger games.
Anne Ewbank October 27, 2017
White truffles can be found in the Piedmont region of Italy.
food

Italian Truffle Prices Mushroom After a Parched October

A lot of money for a little fungus.
Natasha Frost October 27, 2017
Have some baking powder, lest a demon creep up while you sleep.
victorian

Victorian Culinary Trading Cards Are a Feast for the Eyes

But maybe not for your stomach.
Paula Mejia October 27, 2017
Even the U.S.A. got a dose of carrot propaganda.
food

Why Wartime England Thought Carrots Could Give You Night Vision

The belief that carrots improve your eyesight dates back to World War II propaganda.
Anne Ewbank October 25, 2017
Batteries in a thick liquid means it's definitely soup, right?
video games

The Video Game That Asks You to Ponder the Meaning of Soup

Liquid has never been so confounding.
Paula Mejia October 25, 2017
Live frogs, readied for shipment.
farms

The Giant Frog Farms of the 1930s Were a Giant Failure

The get-rich-quick scheme couldn't fill the world's appetite for frogs' legs.
Sarah Laskow October 25, 2017
A single state dominates the snack industry.
food

Why Are So Dang Many Potato Chip Brands From Pennsylvania?

It’s snack time. All the time.
Dan Nosowitz October 24, 2017
The growing world has come far since circa 1901, when this giant pumpkin weighed a whopping 91 pounds.
food

The Massively Friendly World of Competitive Giant Pumpkin Growing

Big gourds, small egos.
Paula Mejia October 24, 2017
The Vegetable Orchestra performing at TEDx, with the remains of shredded cabbage at their feet.
music

This Orchestra Makes Music With Celery, Carrots, and Cabbage

They literally shred.
Anne Ewbank October 24, 2017
Permanently Closed
Coffee Pot Art Studio Gallery.
Lexington, Virginia

The Coffee Pot

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.
Waldo the Wizard, on a Lucky Charms cereal box from 1975.
food

The Lucky Charms Mascot Was Almost a Forgetful Wizard

In the 1970s, Waldo the Wizard briefly appeared on cereal boxes in New England.
Jonathan Kendall October 23, 2017
C.K.G. Billings' infamous horse banquet was inspired by a love of all things equine.
restaurants

The Gilded-Age Dinner Party That Featured 7 Courses and 32 Horses

C.K.G. Billings turned a Manhattan ballroom into a site for a banquet on horseback.
Anne Ewbank October 23, 2017
<em>Vitis vinifera vinifera</em>, the domesticated grape. A good idea is a good idea.
science

Scientists Look to the Grape Genome for Clues About Its Past

Domestication turned out pretty well for grapes, and for us.
Kelsey Kennedy October 20, 2017