The Invention of Baby Food What’s good and when to offer it Commercial baby food was perhaps the original industrial food product, with all that that entails Continue Reading →
Black Stoneflower: A unique Indian spice A 25-year effort to track down an elusive but ubiquitous source of flavour in Indian cooking A lichen, which has no taste of its own, contributes hugely to the flavour of many Indian dishes Continue Reading →
A New Story for Maize Domestication It took two teosintes A close look at more than 1000 varieties of maize solves a mystery about how the crop evolved from its wild relatives. Continue Reading →
Honey and Adulteration Follow the Money Why is honey the world’s third most-adulterated food? Because adulteration delivers profits. Continue Reading →
Fat, Sugar, Salt What do you do when the evidence changes? Before he uncovered “Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result,” David Johns had already dug into reports on salt and sugar. Continue Reading →