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Simon's cakes evoke the baroque still-lifes of Dutch Masters such as Ambrosius Bosschaert.
art

This Cake Artist Makes Confectionery Look Like Classical Paintings

Julie Simon’s sugar flowers are edible horticultural wonders.
Rohini Chaki May 28, 2019
A 1973 chicken barbecue fundraiser for a fire department.
farms

Why All of Upstate New York Grew Up Eating the Same Barbecue Chicken

The true legacy of the Cornell professor who invented the chicken nugget.
Sarah Laskow May 26, 2019
A cross-section view of a bunya pine. They are very large!
trees

After Decades of Being Ignored, a Nut From 20-Pound Pine Cones Is Back on Australian Menus

Aboriginal groups once traveled long distances to celebrate its harvest.
Laura Kiniry May 24, 2019
A watermelon vendor in Nigeria.
science

Can Nigerian Drumming Teach You to Pick the Perfect Watermelon?

Acoustics is here to help you find ripe produce.
Reina Gattuso May 23, 2019
Salinas, California

The Steinbeck House Restaurant

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.
Many of <em>Eat the Problem</em>'s recipes are monochromatic, such as this dark take on river trout.
animals

The Glamorous Australian Guide to Eating Invasive Species

An edgy new cookbook has recipes for camel, cane toad, and feral cat.
Anne Ewbank May 22, 2019
Janissaries carrying their <em>kazan, </em>along with a regimental ladle.
food

Being an Ottoman Janissary Meant War, Mutiny, and Baklava

To overthrow the sultan, janissaries first threw over their cooking pots.
Anne Ewbank May 21, 2019
The Klasies River Cave.
caves

Found: The Earliest Evidence of Humans Cooking and Eating Starch

We were eating rhizomes and tubers as early as 120,000 years ago.
Matthew Taub May 20, 2019
An Indian trader at the Pushkar Camel Fair 2018.
food

To Save India's Camel Culture, a New Dairy Is Selling Milk and Cream Cheese

The ungulate population has dropped precipitously.
Morgan Randall May 20, 2019
A feral pig messes with the nest of a white-capped albatross on Auckland Island.
islands

The Livestock Living at the End of the World

Things get hairy when you plop pigs on a subantarctic island.
Abbey Perreault May 17, 2019
A man with a pack camel in central Australia, 1926.
deserts

Australia's Growing Camel Meat Trade Reveals a Hidden History of Early Muslim Migrants

Afghan cameleers helped settle Australia's interior.
Reina Gattuso May 16, 2019
Heston Blumenthal (right), trying to brie calm, with Thomas Meany, maker of cheeses from humans.
science

These Dairy Devils Are Making Cheese From Celebrities' Bacteria

Aged, ripe, and not for consumption.
Rohini Chaki May 14, 2019
Dr. Katja Rebolj and Peter Zajc pick invasive Himalayan balsam, which can only be eaten in small quantities, and which they use only occasionally.
food

The Intrepid Herb Hunters Who Scour Alpine Mountains and Meadows for Top Chefs

Slovenia's most celebrated restaurants rely on their foraging.
Noah Charney May 13, 2019
The torchlight turns the village of Novacella into a storybook scene.
food

Italian Vineyards Are Glowing From the Light of Hundreds of Torches

It's a beautiful, if imperfect, antidote to crop-damaging cold.
Matthew Taub May 10, 2019
In the 1790 painting <em>Bhang Eaters Before Two Huts</em>, by Pemji, a group of men mix and consume bhang.
festivals

This British Colonial Report Offers a Rare Glimpse Into India's Historic Cannabis Cuisine

And a description of some very stoned canines.
Reina Gattuso May 9, 2019
Anjuna, India

Anjuna Flea Market

This weekly bazaar started in the 1960s as a way for hippie travelers to barter their goods.
Kōlam festivals are one of the few remaining opportunities to showcase this slowly fading tradition.
food

How an Ancient Indian Art Utilizes Mathematics, Mythology, and Rice

Computer scientists have studied these “pictorial prayers.”
Rohini Chaki May 7, 2019
A section of the Great Wall, in Yanqing County, contains mortar made with blood.
architecture

Ancient Chinese Buildings Are Held Together With Rice, Sugar, and Blood

Edible additives in mortar served both practical and philosophical purposes.
Claire Voon May 6, 2019