This Farmer Turned Congresswoman Sees a Way out of America’s Health Crisis
Courtesy Chellie Pingree Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Many members of the US House of Representatives run businesses in their home districts. Few of those enterprises can offer you a half-dozen oysters and a glass of wine, or send you home with an array of locally grown vegetables. But then…
Spam Gumbo, Tacos—Even Cheesecake: My Visit to a Festival Saluting America’s Favorite Canned Meat
Winners of the Isleton Spam Festival take hope the “Spamley Cup.”Dave Gilson Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the winter of 1996, a flood hit Isleton, California. As residents returned to their homes and went through their kitchens, they found that the paper labels on their canned foods had disintegrated.…
How a Former Felon Became a Kitchen Ninja
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One of this year’s Oscar-nominated short documentaries takes a look at an ambitious project to give former inmates a second chance and attempt to create the best French eatery in the country. Knife Skills documents the opening of Edwins and explores what it’s like for the…
This Year’s Best Movies Are All Secretly About Food
Elisa, played by Sally Hawkins, woos her fish-man friend with eggs in The Shape of Water. Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures. Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the film Phantom Thread—up for six Oscars, including Best Picture—director Paul Thomas Anderson tells the twisted mid-century love story of a laser-focused…
The Secret History of the White House’s Kitchen Slaves
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When you look at the White House, you probably don’t think of it as a Southern plantation mansion—the way you might, say, a columned antebellum pile in Georgia. But Washington, D.C. was carved out of territory from Virginia and Maryland, both slave states. Slavery was legal…
Thank Hippies for These 6 Food Trends
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Toward the end of the 1977 classic film Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s straight-laced character squints at the menu of an ultra-groovy Los Angeles restaurant before submitting his order: “I’m going to have the alfalfa sprouts and a plate of mashed yeast.” Hippie food, the rough-and-tumble cuisine…