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Diana Hubbell

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I'm a two-time James Beard Award-winning journalist covering food, culture, and travel. Previously, I was the Associate Editor at Atlas Obscura, where I wrote about everything from feral pigs to hippie cults to Jell-O. I'm currently based in Brooklyn, but have also called Bangkok and Berlin home.
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Nornie Bero with her line of condiments.

food

This Torres Strait Islander Chef Wants You to Cook With Wattleseeds and Bush Tomatoes

Mabu Mabu, Nornie Bero’s first cookbook, is a celebration of Aboriginal culinary traditions.

By Diana Hubbell
Pink lemonade blueberries are sweeter than their blue cousins.

gardens

How to Grow Your Own Wondrous Fruits

Ever dreamed having a peanut butter fruit tree in your garden?

By Diana Hubbell
Groundhog Day weather predictions in 1975.

hunting

When Groundhog Was on the Menu in Punxsutawney

From picnics to club dinners, the critter has a long culinary history in Pennsylvania.

By Diana Hubbell
Part of the breeding herds from the Auerrind Project.

animals

The Once-Extinct Aurochs May Soon Roam Europe Again

After a decade, scientists are getting close to bringing back the massive wild cattle.

By Diana Hubbell
Rodney Scott mopping sauce onto whole hogs at Scott's Bar-B-Que in South Carolina.

food

Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Build a Barbecue Trail

The Southern Foodways Alliance is documenting the oral histories of pitmasters.

By Diana Hubbell
Children lining up for soup at the Canterbury Music Hall in 1910.

victorian

One of the Most Famous Victorian Dishes Is a Hilarious Lie

Brown Windsor soup was reportedly a favorite of the Queen. The only problem? It may not have existed.

By Diana Hubbell
The ruins of Piel Castle.

beer

Wanted: The Future King and Pub Manager of Piel Island

The tiny Cumbrian island’s next monarch will be crowned with lots and lots of beer.

By Diana Hubbell
Cookies based on a 1,300-year-old archeological find.

recipe

Ancient Cookies, Medieval Mead, and Our Other Favorite Recipe Stories This Year

Bake, brew, and stir-fry your way through history.

By Diana Hubbell
A view of the dinner section of the Rock Food Table.

collections

The 'Rock Food' Feast That Looks Good Enough to Eat

Welcome to the world of rockhounds, pebble puppies, and a bizarre art installation almost 40 years in the making.

By Diana Hubbell
The finished cocktail.

history

Make the Crystal-Clear Milk Cocktail Loved by a Spy and a Founding Father

Upgrade your punch game with a 400-year-old science trick.

By Diana Hubbell
Thanksgiving maskers in 1910.

food

Americans Once Celebrated Thanksgiving with Tricks, Treats, and Mayhem

Ragamuffin Day looked a whole lot like Halloween.

By Diana Hubbell
Trees suffering in the torture orchard.

trees

The ‘Torture Orchard’ Is a Testing Ground for the Coming Climate Crisis

Which trees will live and which ones will die?

By Diana Hubbell
Twitty's handful of picked persimmons in North Carolina.

slavery

For Enslaved Cooks, Persimmon Beer Combined Ingenuity and Joy

A conversation with Michael Twitty about the powerful history behind a centuries-old beverage.

By Diana Hubbell
Chin Foin and his wife, Yokelund Wong.

restaurants

The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American Cookbook

Chin Foin forever changed America's relationship with Chinese food.

By Diana Hubbell
The gruesome concoctions definitely caused more harm than good.

skulls

Europeans Once Drank Distilled Human Skulls as Medicine

"Corpse medicine" created a booming market for craniums, especially mossy ones.

By Diana Hubbell
Offerings are given before dawn during Pchum Ben.

festivals

Hurl Rice Balls Into a Graveyard to Appease the Hungry Ghosts

Then make these bone-shaped sticky rice cakes with spirit-soothing associations.

By Diana Hubbell
Vintage advertisements prominently featured Mr. Spudnut.

food

Resurrecting the Spudnut, America's Forgotten Treat

Bake the recipe remnant of a potato doughnut empire that once stretched from the United States to Japan.

By Diana Hubbell
Butterfly wings from Fritz Müller.

preserved specimens

The Curious Task of Digitizing Darwin’s Beans and Butterflies

From squeaky beans to arsenic scares, conservation is full of surprises.

By Diana Hubbell
Inez Cook at her restaurant.

restaurants

How a First Nations Restaurateur Found Her Family Through Food

For more than a decade, Salmon n' Bannock has been serving indigenous cuisine and stories in Vancouver.

By Diana Hubbell
A Tokyo soba noodle delivery in 1956.

food

Remembering Tokyo’s Golden Age of Noodle Delivery by Bicycle

The demae cycled one-handed while balancing dozens of boxes of soba noodles.

By Diana Hubbell
Ships under repair in Bermuda in 1871.

islands

Remembering When Bermuda Was an Onion Island

Mark Twain once called the allium the “pride and joy of Bermuda.”

By Diana Hubbell
Bioluminescent firefly squid.

bioluminescence

For a Brief, Shining Moment, These Bioluminescent Squid Are Sushi Stars

Hotaru ika are a glow-in-the-dark delicacy.

By Diana Hubbell
The Cosmos cake.

food

This Jelly Cake Captures the Wonder of the Cosmos

Centrifuges and syringe-tipped knives are behind this edible miniature galaxy.

By Diana Hubbell
Muusers adapted a WWII-era recipe to make this tulip bulb soup.

food

Tulip Bulb Soup: the Dutch Dish Born From Tough Times

Once used as a survival food during World War II, these flower bulbs are making their way onto restaurant menus.

By Diana Hubbell
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