By Allison Aubrey, NPR The thinking about alcohol dependence used to be black and white. There was a belief that there were two kinds of drinkers: alcoholics and everyone else. “But that dichotomy — yes or no, you have it or you don’t — is inadequate,” says Dr. John Mariani, who researches substance abuse at […]
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By Roberto A. Ferdman, Washington Post Food television has been something of a revelation. As Americans cook less and less, they seem compelled to watch people cook more and more. The mouthwatering viewer experience — which features cooking shows and competitions, food travel adventures and other gustatory escapades — has captivated people around the country. […]
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University of Nevada Cooperative Extension is offering eight Grow Your Own, Nevada classes at 12 locations statewide to help Nevadans who want to get on a path to more sustainable, local, healthy living by growing more of their own food. The series of workshops will run April 7-30, and be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 […]
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By Ben O’Donnell, Wine Spectator Are some California wineries “secretly poisoning wine consumers”? That’s one of the incendiary charges being leveled in a class-action lawsuit against several of the biggest companies in American wine, filed March 19 in a California state court. At the heart of the suit is that the “defendants produce, manufacture and/or […]
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By Katharine Mieszkowski, Reveal Call it the international food movement: From blueberries to raw sushi, the tide of imported food is rising in the U.S. Right now, about one-sixth of what Americans eat comes from outside our borders. But in recent years, food imports have grown an average of 10 percent a year, a trend […]
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By Alison Griswold, Slate America’s craft breweries are thirsty for a lot more market share. By 2020, the trade association representing small and independent brewers in the U.S. says its members will satisfy 20 percent of the country’s beer consumption. That’s quite a bit when you consider that in 2014 beer giant Anheuser-Busch (which includes […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Of all the issues the Obama administration is grappling with, a modest redesign of what food labels say about sweeteners might not have seemed among the more controversial. But ever since first lady Michelle Obama unveiled the plan last year, a lobbying frenzy has ensued. The objections have come […]
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By Maria Fitzpatrick, Wall Street Journal You could say it all started with a deconstructed lasagna. When a small, century-old, family-run saltworks in Maldon, England, got a call from El Bulli, they couldn’t have imagined what would happen next. Wanted: one case of their finest crystals, in perfectly uniform but oversize pyramid shapes, individually wrapped […]
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By Mike Pomranz, Food + Wine Here’s a dirty little secret the Girl Scouts don’t want you to know: Not all Girl Scout cookies taste the same. And I’m not talking about how Samoas taste delicious, whereas Do-Si-Dos taste like someone rubbed your tongue with peanut butter sandpaper. I mean that the exact same cookie […]
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By Lisa Aliferis, California Report Hundreds of pages of newly-found documents show that the sugar industry worked closely with the federal government in the late 1960s and early 1970s to determine a research agenda to prevent cavities in children, researchers who analyzed the documents say. In the analysis, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS Medicine, […]
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