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Junk food science, with a side of snide and some genuine authenticity.

On Twitter, Parke Wilde asks: How is it possible that a federal checkoff program, from a semi-public board whose marketing is approved by the federal government, advertises a bacon ice cream sandwich during a time of rising health care costs and high rates of chronic disease? I have a different question: How could anyone eat […]

A propos eating alone, Gabrielle Schaffner, ceramicist extraordinaire, likes pasta al limone.

Big pictures, mostly, on food industry funded studies, agricultural externalities, libertarian paternalism and food systems in the future

Old yeasts, new grapes, ongoing discrimination and more.

After a bit of a kerfuffle — all a misunderstanding — the money, minus a handling fee, is still going to charity. For now.

Ultra-processed food, bananas, beef and fish. Plus cookbooks of the mind.

Four recent studies add weight to advice to reduce the amount of ultra-processed food you eat — even if you don’t quite agree what makes a food ultra-processed.

Raw cheese, soda economics, wild vanilla, plant blindness, International Day for Biological Diversity and Mistakes in recipes

Ultra-processed foods, early cooks, teff theft and more.