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The Tasteless Chef — Perfection on the Plate

by Anya Regelin Let’s get this out of the way: I cook professionally and I don’t taste my food, and I haven’t, by choice, in years. Before you start thinking ...

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Book Review: The Breakfast Book — Digging into the Meaning of Our Morning Meals

By Jenn Salcido While I’m not by any means a morning person, one of the things I’ve noticed, as I get older, is that I wake up earlier than I ...

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A Meal in Old Stone Town, Zanzibar

by Joseph Heathcott I sat down to table and stared at the beautiful repast.  Golden yellow potatoes glistening with curry, oil, and ripe plummy tomatoes. Beans simmered for hours in ...

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Where Corn Is King, a New Regard for Grass-Fed Beef

 Isolation comes with the territory in the Sandhills of Nebraska, where grassy ...
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Taco Bell to Test ‘Power Protein’ Menu

Taco Bell plans to test a “Power Protein” menu that it’s hoping ...
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Can Starbucks do For The Croissant What it Did For Coffee?

“Is the food still lousy?” a friend once replied when I texted ...
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Dining + Design: A Conversation with David Chang, Andrew Salmon, and Anwar Mekhayech

Here is the third panel in the Dining + Design series, organized ...
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Situational Dining: Where to Eat and Drink Outdoors in New York This Summer

On the off chance that it’s not pouring rain in the city ...
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What Congress and the Media are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate

To follow the congressional debate about food stamp (SNAP) funding in the ...
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Hot Dogs, Bacon and Red Meat Tied to Increased Diabetes Risk

It’s not that we are trying to pick on meat (I’m a ...
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What Cup of Coffee?

By Fabio Parasecoli from Huffington Post   The sun was rising over ...
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Price of Milk, Farm Bill Could Depend on Dairy Program Vote

Approval of a massive farm bill – and the cost of a ...
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Bloomberg Plan Aims to Require Food Composting

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking ...
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Portraits of Grandmas and Their Cuisine From Around the World

Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti realized that trying to not overeat over at ...
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SNAP Decision: Starve the Poor

On May 15, by a vote of 36-10, the U.S. House Agriculture ...

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Where Corn Is King, a New Regard for Grass-Fed Beef

 Isolation comes with the territory in the Sandhills of Nebraska, where grassy dunes laced with wet meadows undulate above the Ogallala Aquifer, and the thinning towns are few and far between. In the four years since he settled here, Prescott Frost has found himself set apart more than most. In a state where corn is […]

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Taco Bell to Test ‘Power Protein’ Menu

Taco Bell plans to test a “Power Protein” menu that it’s hoping will eventually be hit with its core audience – young men. The chain says it will start testing the menu July 25 at about 40 locations in Dayton, Ohio. The burritos and bowls will have double portions of chicken or steak, and toppings such […]

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Can Starbucks do For The Croissant What it Did For Coffee?

“Is the food still lousy?” a friend once replied when I texted her to ask if I could bring her something to eat from Starbucks. She wasn’t (just) being snide. She was reflecting a truth universally acknowledged: you could customize your drink any which way in every one of Starbucks’ 11,000 stores in the United […]

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Dining + Design: A Conversation with David Chang, Andrew Salmon, and Anwar Mekhayech

Here is the third panel in the Dining + Design series, organized by The New School Food Studies program with the James Beard Foundation.

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Situational Dining: Where to Eat and Drink Outdoors in New York This Summer

On the off chance that it’s not pouring rain in the city — a depressingly frequent occurrence this year — you’ll want to act quickly and enjoy the nice weather by eating outside. But since this is New York, “outdoor seating” can mean that you’re at a table that overlooks traffic and you’re breathing in […]

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What Congress and the Media are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate

To follow the congressional debate about food stamp (SNAP) funding in the Farm Bill—and media coverage of that debate—you would think that the relevant issues are the deficit, rapists on food stamps, waste and abuse, and defining our biblical obligation to the poor. The only thing missing from that conversation is the state of hunger in […]

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