There is an unfortunate stigma attached to frozen meat, a widely held assumption that it’s inferior to fresh meat. This prejudice runs deep enough that fast-food chain Wendy’s tried to capitalize on it in 2008 with a promise that its burger meat was “Always fresh, never frozen.” This belief, and retail efforts to cater...
Onions can be tricky to grow, which is why a farmer’s onions have long been considered a litmus test for agricultural skill. Hence the expression, “he knows his onions,” which is like saying, “he knows the ropes.” Knowing one’s onions in a literal sense...
In February, Amy Meyer became the first person charged under a so-called ag-gag law. Six states currently have such laws, also called “Farm Protection laws, which aim to stop video recording at slaughterhouses. The bills are largely industry-funded, and based on a template drawn...
The massive fertilizer explosion in West, Texas made less of an impression than the relatively small Boston blasts two days earlier. But if terrorists are scary, the dangers presented...
A neighbor in New Mexico once told me that it’s bad luck, not to mention bad form, to kill a rattlesnake. Unfortunately, he told me this after I’d already...
Anne Kapuscinski is a professor of sustainability science at Dartmouth College, who recently led a team of 53 scientists in writing a book on the subject of risk assessment...
Montana governor Steve Bullock recently signed a bill legalizing the salvage, consumption, and/or donation to charity of animals hit and killed by cars-aka roadkill. The law applies to deer,...
Locavore fundamentalists might call it blasphemy, but there’s no reason a meal made with local foods can’t contain ingredients from the other side of the world. What’s wrong with...
A kitchen garden is as much an act of self-expression as a means of growing food. But not all of a garden’s expressiveness is intentional. In the same...
We’ve been told since the 1960s that animal-based saturated fats will give us heart disease, while their polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) counterparts, found mostly in vegetable oils, will prevent...
Looking back, the early bacon years of the bacon craze seem like a time of innocence. We took it for granted that any problem, culinary or otherwise, could be...
I once owned a T-shirt that read, “Stock up on eggs for Passover and Easter.” I bought it overseas, along with some other bits of shirt-bound poetry like “On...
(Updates below) Anne Kapuscinski is a professor of sustainability science at Dartmouth College, who recently led a team of 53 scientists in writing a book on the subject of...
The institution of breakfast is rarely challenged. It ranks somewhere between sleep and oxygen in reputed health benefit, and supposedly supplies irreplaceable energy to get you going, primes your...
Pho, a brothy Vietnamese rice noodle and beef soup, is usually mispronounced “faux.” It’s more like “fuuh,” as if you were about to say a bad word and then...