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Strawberries, illustrated by Deborah G. Passmore.
paintings

Why the USDA Hired Artists to Paint Thousands of Fruits

Researchers and a Twitter bot use them today.
Rohini Chaki March 26, 2019
For centuries, Japanese people considered eating beef especially taboo.
food

Why Eating Meat Was Banned in Japan for Centuries

The reasons were both religious and practical.
Kristi Allen March 26, 2019
A saffron and rose water dressing lends unexpected perfume to a roasted sea bass stuffed with walnuts.
restaurants

The Restaurant Reconstructing Recipes That Died With the Ottoman Empire

Eating like a sultan takes lots of detective work.
Jen Rose Smith March 22, 2019
Boys eating school lunch in New York City, 1919.
food

American School Lunch Is Becoming More Diverse, Like It Was in the 1910s

The cafeteria program started in immigrant communities.
Reina Gattuso March 21, 2019
Chevilly-Larue, France

Rungis International Market

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.
"The Tails of Two Kitties" was an award-winning entry at UC Berkeley's 2019 Edible Books Festival.
libraries

Edible Book Festivals Are for Pun and Food Lovers

It's been widely celebrated for almost 20 years.
Anne Ewbank March 20, 2019
Mexico City, Mexico

La Casa de los Azulejos

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.
Washington, D.C.

Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.
Fresh wasabi, nature's own fire ant fighter.
science

Scientists Are Fighting Fire (Ants) With Wasabi

What’s good for the sushi is not good for the Solenopsis invicta.
Rohini Chaki March 19, 2019
What is manna?
biblical

The Very Real Search for the Bible's Mythical Manna

Scholars, soldiers, and scientists have long puzzled over the supernatural substance.
Erica X Eisen March 18, 2019
A sign warns visitors against fishing from the Passaic River in Newark.
food

The Swap-a-Fish Program That Traded Tilapia for Seafood Contaminated by Agent Orange

New Jersey's Passaic River has been unsafe to fish for decades.
Reina Gattuso March 15, 2019
Butter?
food

How Much of Ireland’s ‘Bog Butter’ Is Actually Buttery?

The chunks look and smell like rancid dairy, so scientists set out to confirm it.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 15, 2019
List

20 Pies to Celebrate Pi Day

No math needed to know that any pie is better than none.
Rohini Chaki March 14, 2019
Louis Trevino (left) and Vincent Medina (right) get ready to serve a meal in the Ohlone Cafe.
bookstores

Indigenous Cuisine Is Being Served in the Back of a Berkeley Bookstore

Café Ohlone features traditional recipes and foraged ingredients.
Richard Foss March 13, 2019
Alexandre Dumas the Elder, known as <em>Dumas Père</em>, preparing his oyster omelette.
food

Alexandre Dumas’s Magnum Opus Was a Massive Cookbook

The French literary icon thought this 1,150-page compendium on cookery would be his masterpiece.
Rohini Chaki March 12, 2019
Mmmmmm, antioxidants.
farms

Scientists Found That You Can Grow Better Blueberries by Ditching the Fertilizer

And adding grass.
Evan Nicole Brown March 12, 2019
Squirrel hunting in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
food

The Cajun Town That Shuts Down for 'Squirrel Day'

Hunting season starts with a mass migration to the woods.
Jordan LaHaye March 11, 2019
Olive groves in the Puglia countryside.
food

Italian Olive Oil Is Facing a Perfect Storm of Climate and Pests

It may not be long before the country has to import some of its supply.
Noor Al-Samarrai March 8, 2019