Food
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US
Mars Needs Insects
At first it was just one flower, but Emmanuel Mendoza, an undergraduate student at Texas A&M University, had worked hard…
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World
Overlooked No More: Elena Zelayeta, Emissary for Mexican Cooking
Beginning the 1930s in San Francisco, she transformed the image of her native Mexican cuisine in the United States with…
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Travel
No Thanks, Grandma, I’m Saving Room for Airplane Food
U.S. carriers are offering complimentary in-flight menus created by celebrated chefs, wine pairings selected by master sommeliers and specialty dishes…
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Magazine
Sizzling Dishes and Stressful Meals Give Video Games Warmth
By asking players to cook and eat virtual food, game designers are finding resonant ways to tell personal stories.
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Food
On the Luby’s Cafeteria Line, Every Day Is Thanksgiving
In a spacious Houston cafeteria awash in primary colors, diners crowded around big tables and dug into mashed potatoes splashed…
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Food
Claire Saffitz’s Thanksgiving Is Not That Complicated
After roughly a decade of cooking Thanksgiving for my family, I’ve arrived at one simple truth: The more effort I…
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Magazine
A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.
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World
Those Doritos Too Expensive? More Stores Offer Their Own Alternatives.
Retailers are expanding their own private-label food and beverage offerings, attracting customers looking for less expensive options.
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World
How a Fertilizer Shortage Is Spreading Desperate Hunger
Suleiman Chubado is not entirely clear what caused the price of fertilizer to more than double over the past year,…
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Food
California’s Ban on Red Food Dye Puts F.D.A.’s Food Policies on the Spot
The dye was banned in cosmetics after a study suggested it might be a carcinogen. Yet federal regulations still permit…
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