Millennials are gobbling down plant-based burgers, prompting meat producers to question the health benefits of “ultra-processed imitations.” The meat industry has a warning for consumers: Beware of plant-based meat. That is the message behind a marketing campaign by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a public relations firm whose financial supporters have …
Ant spring rolls, silkworm taro croquettes and a “bug mac” — Cambodia’s first insect tapas restaurant is mixing cocktail culture with creepy crawler fare. At the busy “Bugs Cafe” in the tourist town of Siem Reap, chef Seiha Soeun stands over a sizzling wok in the kitchen tossing in crickets, …
Nov. 25 (UPI) — Scientists have published a new world map featuring the sustainability rate of regional food systems. The map could help researchers better understand the links between diet and climate change. To build the new map, published Monday in the journal Scientific Data, scientists surveyed the last 20 years of …
It’s back. The Crown, which has won more awards than you can shake a diamond tiara at, has returned for a third series and there’s been a change of the guard. As the drama turns its attention to the early ’60s and the decade that followed it, we wave a fond farewell …
What did a meal taste like nearly 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylonia? Pretty good, according to a team of international scholars who have deciphered and are re-creating what are considered to be the world’s oldest-known culinary recipes. The recipes were inscribed on ancient Babylonian tablets that researchers have known …
Cheap and plentiful, they’ve long been a menu staple in New Orleans and beyond. But recent months have brought a crisis that worries fishermen and chefs. NEW ORLEANS — For decades, customers who visited the P & J Oyster Company’s headquarters in the French Quarter on the day before Thanksgiving were …
The enduring mystique of Scotch whisky has been paramount to its global success. Source: The secret to whisky’s global success – BBC Reel
There’s food that’s old. There’s food that has gone bad. And then there’s soup that has been simmering for 45 years. In Bangkok, customers can’t get enough of the latter at Wattana Panich, a noodle soup joint in the trendy Ekkamai neighborhood, where third-generation owner Nattapong Kaweeantawong wants to clear up what he …
SPOKANE, Wash. — They call it the Cosmic Crisp. It’s not a video game, a superhero or the title of a Grateful Dead song. It’s a new variety of apple, coming to a grocery store near you Dec. 1. Cosmic Crisp is the first apple ever bred in Washington state, …
Beginning in the 1980s, researchers noticed that the French—despite typically eating a diet with lots of foods containing saturated fat and cholesterol—had lower than expected rates of heart disease and early death. Some called this phenomenon the “French paradox,” and they went to work figuring out an explanation. Wine emerged as a …
Source: How the world came to run on coffee – BBC Reel
