Fish Stick

The Ocean’s Hot Dog: The Strange History of Fish Sticks

Fish sticks fulfilled the need to repackage an abundance of frozen fillets. But did they become a consumer staple?
Meat products

Fake Meat: Get Ready for The Synthetic Meat Revolution

New Wave Foods, a Silicon Valley start-up, has developed synthetic shrimp in a lab. Will fake meat revolutionize the food industry?
A bowl of mashed sweet potatoes.

Considering the Sweet Potato

The sweet potato is a New World food that spread around the world, including across the Pacific before the Europeans got there.
Close-up of a spicy Chinese chicken dish

Will Spicy Foods Preserve You?

Spicy foods may prolong life; they certainly act as food preservatives.
Lunch tables outside overlooking NYC

Why It Matters Where We Get Lunch

Choosing a place to eat goes beyond just food.
A couple in love at a picnic in the woods

How Americans Used to Picnic

A historic look at the picnic.
Old combat boots and military canteen

What Soldiers Ate During World War I

By World War I, writes Murlin, emerging nutritional science was becoming a priority in the Army.
A kitchen table full of chopped vegetables and spices

A Plan to Get the Poor to Eat Healthy Food—in the 1890s

Early efforts to get Americans to eat healthy food started with targeting poor citizens.
A field of wheat

GMOs, Inequality and World Hunger

In a 2008 paper for the British Journal of Criminology, Reese Walters looked at GMO crops from an entirely different perspective.
Jugs of milk

Do Adults Need to Drink Milk?

Do we really need to drink so much milk?