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The diease that has already killed 11 million olive trees in the south of Puglia might be a blessing in disguise

Louise Gray’s new book dives deep into the trade-offs that accompany every food choice we make, where nothing is as simple as it seems.

Why are some people tap-water hesitant and what do we expect water to taste like anyway?

3 June 2024

“I thought, okay, I’m eating meat, but am I supposed to be eating meat? Would I ever kill an animal myself? Would I ever butcher an animal?”

Throughout history, people repurposed food leftovers and surplus and animal byproducts, challenging the modern perception of them as waste.

29 April 2024

In the end, the meaning of chametz rests on history and tradition, and new traditions are possible.

God’s original instructions for Passover did not include one of the crucial items on the Seder plate.

Ordinarily, evading food rationing in times of war is considered a crime. There are times when it must be accepted as a necessity.

The European Union has failed to implement one of the most effective public health interventions, one that the United Kingdom is now able to contemplate.

Pizza Hut says it invented the stuffed crust pizza. A judge agreed. But Anthony Mongiello has US patent 4,661,361, no matter what the law says.

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Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread was a series of micro-episodes on the history of wheat and bread, with an episode every day through the month of August 2018.

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