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spiders

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.
October 31, 2017
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menu monday

The Club Dedicated to Eating Unconventional Aquatic Creatures

The Ichthyophagous Club changed America's relationship to seafood.
October 30, 2017
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food art

The Forgotten Italian Tradition of Building Monumental Food Palaces

Then destroying them in a literal hunger games.
October 27, 2017
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propaganda

Why Wartime England Thought Carrots Could Give You Night Vision

The belief that carrots improve your eyesight dates back to World War II propaganda.
October 25, 2017
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food art

This Orchestra Makes Music With Celery, Carrots, and Cabbage

They literally shred.
October 24, 2017
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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.
October 23, 2017
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cookies

Watch a Cookie Soar Into the Stratosphere

Terry the teacake took one giant leap for cookie-kind.
October 17, 2017
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The Nixon Dinners That Taught Americans to Stop Worrying and Love Peking Duck

The president's historic trip to China caused a Chinese food boom.
October 16, 2017
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renaissance

The Renaissance Painter Who Made Fantastical Portraits From Food

Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted surreal art unlike any of his contemporaries.
October 13, 2017
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features

During an 1870 Siege, Trapped Parisians Dined on Rat, Cat, and Elephant

In a desperate time, the zoo became a source of food.
April 10, 2017