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"Dominion", How Animals Are Used And Abused By Humans

"Dominion", How Animals Are Used And Abused By Humans

Food Nature Videos

Dominion exposes the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom. While mainly focusing on animals used for food, it also explores other ways animals are exploited and abused by humans, including clothing, entertainment and research.

The World's Oldest Winery in Armenia

The World's Oldest Winery in Armenia

Food History Long Reads World

The Areni-1 complex, uncovered in 2007, contains a 6,100-year-old winery replete with fermenting vats, a grape press, and subterranean clay storage vessels. Altogether, it’s the best-preserved archeological site in the ongoing search for winemaking’s birthplace.

How Protein Conquered America

How Protein Conquered America

Food Health Long Reads

My bodega is only a little bigger than my studio apartment, and sells no fewer than 10 kinds of Muscle Milk. Once the niche elixir of powerlifting bros, gulping down a Muscle Milk or three is now part of a “healthy, active lifestyle” — whatever that means.

The Climate Activists Who Dismiss Meat Consumption Are Wrong

The Climate Activists Who Dismiss Meat Consumption Are Wrong

Food Nature

All too frequently, activists, politicians, and scientists reduce the all-consuming crisis of global warming to a question of greenhouse gas emissions: what drives them up, and how best to bring them down. The natural world and its nonhuman inhabitants are reduced to a series of models and equations.

The Shipwrecked Sailors And The Wandering Cod

The Shipwrecked Sailors And The Wandering Cod

Food World

In the remote archipelago of Lofoten, Arctic cod have been dried on oceanfront racks since the age of the Vikings. This is the unlikely story of how the humble fish became king of Norway.

How Fish And Chips Migrated To Great Britain

How Fish And Chips Migrated To Great Britain

Explainers Food History

When Portugal fell under Spanish rule, the Inquisition targeted individuals with Jewish lineage. As religious violence worsened, many Jews fled Portugal and resettled in England, bringing with them culinary treasures founded in Sephardic cuisine—including fish. Peshkado frito was one of them.

How Airplane Food Goes From The Kitchen To Your Flight

How Airplane Food Goes From The Kitchen To Your Flight

Food

Gate Gourmet is one major player in the airplane catering game, feeding about 750 million passengers a year in about 60 countries. On a typical day at its Dulles International Airport branch, in suburban Washington, the company is responsible for getting 18,000 meals onto 275 flights.

Virginia Mori

Inspiration
Virginia Mori
The Italian Town That Always Smells Like Panettone

The Italian Town That Always Smells Like Panettone

Food World

Since 1922, Pinerolo has been home to Galup, a bakery-factory that specializes in northern Italian enriched breads, an operation that defines this small town—from its aroma to its employment options. The town always smells like panettone.

Carlsberg Beer, Niels Bohr, And The Infinite Pilsner Pipeline That Wasn’t

Carlsberg Beer, Niels Bohr, And The Infinite Pilsner Pipeline That Wasn’t

Food Media

Carlsberg gifted Niels Bohr, the famous Danish physicist, a home complete with a pipeline that pumped fresh beer directly into his residence. It’s a great story and one that has been reported on by publications such as Forbes and The Guardian. The only problem with the story is that it isn’t entirely true.

What Exactly Is A Milkshake IPA?

What Exactly Is A Milkshake IPA?

Explainers Food

The milkshake IPA takes the chewy softness typical of the hazy IPA to the extreme. The addition of unfermentable milk sugars (lactose) adds a pillowy creaminess to the mouthfeel in the hopes of creating a smooth, delightful drinking experience–similar to the sensation you’d expect in a milk stout.

The Rise And Fall Of Subway

The Rise And Fall Of Subway

Business Food Videos

With thousands of store closures in the last three years and petitions against Subway from its franchise owners, the fast-food chain with the most locations globally seems to be on the rocks. This video unpacks what’s going on and where Subway’s headed from here.

The World's Last Great Undiscovered Cuisine

The World's Last Great Undiscovered Cuisine

Food World

Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan is home to a fantastical rising skyline, rose-scented markets, and cooking influenced by everything from the Ottoman Empire to the USSR. You’ll dine on fisinjan and other saucy (though un-nailed) stews called khurush, along with ethereal pilafs bejeweled with dried fruits, nuts, and barberries.

The Tricky Economics Of All-You-Can-Eat Buffets

The Tricky Economics Of All-You-Can-Eat Buffets

Economics Food

For a small fee, you’re granted unencumbered access to a wonderland of gluttony. Is it possible to out-eat the price you pay for a buffet? How do these places make money? We looked at the dollars and cents behind the meat and potatoes.

McHive, The World’s Smallest McDonald’s For Bees

McHive, The World’s Smallest McDonald’s For Bees

Food Media Videos

Some of McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden have beehives on their rooftops. The initiative started out locally but is now growing. To celebrate the initiative which is part of McDonald’s Swedens sustainability work, they created what could be the world’s smallest McDonald’s – a fully functioning beehive.

Matt Rota

Inspiration
Matt Rota
Why We Fell For Clean Eating

Why We Fell For Clean Eating

Apps Food Long Reads

The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it.

Guatemala Is The Land Of Unknown Ancient Food Traditions

Guatemala Is The Land Of Unknown Ancient Food Traditions

Food

Guatemala remains one of the Western Hemisphere’s last true culinary terrae incognitae. Due to centuries of isolation in the volcano-strewn highlands, many members of the 23 distinct Maya groups in rural Guatemala still wear the same outfits that their great-great-great-great-grandparents did.

How Philadelphia Became The One And Only Cream Cheese

How Philadelphia Became The One And Only Cream Cheese

Business Food History

There is only one cream cheese, and that is the brick-shaped silver package with the bright blue lettering: Philadelphia. Philadelphia cream cheese’s dominance isn’t a happy accident. Its cult popularity is likely the result of equal parts clever marketing and good timing.

How IKEA Helped Swedish Meatballs Go Global

How IKEA Helped Swedish Meatballs Go Global

Food

Swedish meatballs are no longer just a domestic dish. They have gone global, thanks to the efforts not of Sweden’s mothers but of one giant furniture company: IKEA. The firm wanted to make something that was easy to serve, tasty and affordable for most people.

The True Cost Of Tuna: Marine Observers Dying At Sea

The True Cost Of Tuna: Marine Observers Dying At Sea

Food Nature

The harassment, abuse, and sometimes death of the marine observers who uphold sustainable seafood standards are the industry’s worst-kept secrets. Critics say the people and companies that earn the most money on tuna aren’t doing enough to secure their well-being.

The Taste Of America

The Taste Of America

Food

Joshua Smith, 2019 Iron Viz co-champion, used data provided by Pitney Bowes to create a dashboard about how international cuisine shapes food identity in the US. The visualization tells a story of what is on American tables using tile maps that display the prevalence of international cuisines by state, compared to the national average.

On The Hunt For The World's Rarest Pasta

On The Hunt For The World's Rarest Pasta

Food

Delicate and impossible to replicate, su filindeu (or the “threads of God”) is a pasta made of hundreds of tiny strands by a single woman in a hillside town in Sardinia. She’ll make it for you too—if you’re willing to walk 20 miles overnight.

"A Failure Of The Imagination", The Story Of A Zero-Waste Restaurant

"A Failure Of The Imagination", The Story Of A Zero-Waste Restaurant

Food Videos

Five years ago, Douglas McMaster opened the restaurant Silo, hoping to change the unsustainable practices of modern food systems. His aim was simple, yet frighteningly ambitious: create an award-winning menu using a zero-waste food system designed from scratch. This is the story of that restaurant’s first five years.

In the Future, Everything Will Be Made Of Chickpeas

In the Future, Everything Will Be Made Of Chickpeas

Food

Once hummus became a widely enjoyed grocery-store staple, people at every level of the American food industry saw opportunity in the legume’s versatility. In the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean, chickpeas have been a common ingredient in everyday cooking for thousands of years.

Joseph Ford

Inspiration
Joseph Ford
The Midwest’s “Finnish Triangle” Is A Land Of Saunas And Squeaky Cheeses

The Midwest’s “Finnish Triangle” Is A Land Of Saunas And Squeaky Cheeses

Food

A look into the lives, and kitchens, of the Finns who’ve kept their Scandinavian heritage alive for over a century in northern Minnesota. Finns know that the beauty of the North lives in its contradictory extremes: searing sunlight, insulating snowbanks against the house, air so cold it burns your cheeks.

Farmer’s Fridge Wants To Make Eating Healthy Food As Easy As Getting Money From An ATM

Farmer’s Fridge Wants To Make Eating Healthy Food As Easy As Getting Money From An ATM

Food Innovation Tech

Farmer’s Fridge retrofits vending machines to serve up healthy foods — salads, sandwiches, granola, etc. — for people on the go. In order to ensure restaurant-quality food, Farmer’s Fridge has a chef on board who receives feedback from customers to constantly tweak the menu and the food.

The American Restaurant Is On Life Support

The American Restaurant Is On Life Support

Food Long Reads

The restaurant industry is in a scary place, one that fairly guarantees heartbreak. We’re eating at street-corner stalls and food trucks, in front of the TV and at the grocery—everywhere but restaurants. They might not be here when we get back.

The Behavioral Economics Diet: The Science of Killing a Bad Habit

The Behavioral Economics Diet: The Science of Killing a Bad Habit

Food Health

Diets don’t work. Studies show that temporary fixes to old habits actually make people gain weight. Essentially, the dieter’s brain is trained to gorge when off the diet and inevitably the weight returns. Putting some skin in the game makes people more likely to accomplish their goal of stopping a bad habit.

A Banana Grown At Subzero Temps Also Has An Edible Peel

A Banana Grown At Subzero Temps Also Has An Edible Peel

Food Innovation Nature Science

A Japanese farm introduced a new crop this winter: an organic banana with a peel that’s thin enough to eat. In a nod to this appealing outer covering, Setsuzo Tanaka, the banana’s inventor, has named his creation the Mongee (“mon-gay”) banana — which means “incredible banana” in Japanese.

Eating Chilies Cuts Risk Of Death From Heart Attack And Stroke

Eating Chilies Cuts Risk Of Death From Heart Attack And Stroke

Food Health

Chili has been hailed for its therapeutic properties, and now researchers have found that eating chili peppers regularly can cut the risk of death from heart disease and stroke. Researchers found that the risk of dying from a heart attack was 40% lower among those eating chili peppers at least four times per week.

The Benefits Of Intermittent Fasting

The Benefits Of Intermittent Fasting

Food Health

I’ve long thought the human body was not meant to run on empty, that fasting was done primarily for religious reasons or political protest. But it turns out there is something to be said for a daily fast, preferably one lasting at least 16 hours.

Why Is Chicken So Cheap?

Why Is Chicken So Cheap?

Explainers Food Videos

Chickens are the most populous bird on the planet. There are 23 billion of them at any given time – that’s ten times more than any other bird. It’s by far the fastest growing meat product but pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?

Confused About What To Eat? Science Can Help

Confused About What To Eat? Science Can Help

Food Health Science

Potent societal powers create a culture of nutrition confusion that not only obfuscate the truth about diet, they undermine science as a whole. Begin by asking critical questions when digesting diet news. Does the writer have an advanced degree in nutrition, or does she or he have expertise in science journalism?

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