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Rolling flatbread in the Living Lab.
food

The Refugee Women Turning Tastes of Home Into a Food-Delivery Business

Fleeing conflict in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, they've created a rare melting pot in India.
Reina Gattuso August 20, 2019
Otgontsetseg milking one of the reindeer in her herd.
food

The Key Ingredient in This Bread Is Reindeer Milk

Mongolia's last reindeer riders don’t rely on their herd just for transportation.
Breanna Wilson August 20, 2019
Soup set to be disinterred in 1980, 2000, and 2050.
exploration

The Quest to Find a Lost Arctic Explorer’s Buried Soup

An "Arctic mystery" may lead to a future of food under the permafrost.
Tal McThenia August 19, 2019
Bunches and bunches of Cavendishes.
food

No, the Banana Apocalypse Is Not Around the Corner

But Colombia’s outbreak of lethal banana fungus is still bad news.
Sabrina Imbler August 16, 2019
A Nordic breakfast spread, including a brown cheese, or <em>brunost</em>, on flatbread.
food

Around the World in 380 Breakfasts

A cookbook devoted to morning meals showcases chocolate-fish porridge, ice-cream brioche, and more.
Anne Ewbank August 16, 2019
How could something so creamy and crispy and sweet and sour and savory become so popular?
food

What the Heck Is Crab Rangoon Anyway?

How a fusion of at least four cuisines created a beloved and misunderstood dish.
Dan Nosowitz August 14, 2019
The Governor’s Palace dining room in Colonial Williamsburg filled with fake jellies, candied ginger, chocolate almonds, pies, and marzipan fruits and animals.
museums

How Museums Make Their Fake Foods Using Real Recipes

At Colonial Williamsburg, creating historic food scenes is a team sport.
Stephanie Burt August 12, 2019
Nima Tamang molds a hefty wheel of yak cheese.
mountains

How the 'Swiss Milkman' Brought Cheese Production to Nepal

Earthquakes and rebels haven't stopped high-altitude yak cheese artisans.
Richard Collett August 9, 2019
An industrial robotic arm with custom gripper and sensors constantly reorganizes plants as they grow.
farms

Fresh Produce, Brought to You by Robots

A family-owned market in California is now selling robot-reared leafy greens.
Luke Fater August 8, 2019
The western lowland gorilla's diet consists of leaves, some fruit ... and nuts, apparently.
science

What Nut-Eating Gorillas in Gabon Mean for Human Evolution

Researchers spent 6,000 hours documenting their diet.
Isaac Schultz August 7, 2019
Tuhinj Valley
Laze v Tuhinju, Slovenia

Tuhinj Valley

A beautiful drive through the foot of the Alps traces the path of 15th-century Turkish raids.
There's a whole world beyond horchata made with rice.
food

Why Are So Many Different Drinks Called Horchata?

An ancient medical elixir is the ancestor of a family of drinks.
Maite Gomez-Rejon August 6, 2019
Shah Jahan on the Peacock Throne at Delhi receiving deputations.
food

Eat Like Royalty With This Cookbook From the Emperor Who Built the Taj Mahal

Shah Jahan developed one of the most famous cuisines of India.
Reina Gattuso August 5, 2019
Henry D. Clark, the "Rhubarb King."
food

How Alaska Became Home to Humongous Rhubarb

The leafy green grows to monstrous size under the midnight sun.
Anne Ewbank July 30, 2019
Coming back from the root cellar with a vegetable haul.
food

This Newfoundland Town Is the ‘Root Cellar Capital of the World’

During a crisis, locals turned their root cellars into an attraction.
Karen Burshtein July 29, 2019
William Dampier aboard the <em>HMS Roebuck</em> surveys the New Guinea coast.
pirates

The Pirate Who Penned the First English-Language Guacamole Recipe

William Dampier's food-writing firsts included the use of the words "barbecue" and "chopsticks."
Luke Fater July 26, 2019
A falafel stand in Gaza.
food

Around the Middle East in Hummus and Falafel

A new book is an ode to chickpeas and the people that love them.
Olivia Snaije July 26, 2019
A garbage clean-up in downtown New York, 1890s.
food

When New Yorkers Were Menaced by Banana Peels

They slipped and fell. Really!
Alex Mayyasi July 24, 2019