Emily Post’s Great-Great-Granddaughter Explains the Proper Way to Get High
MmeEmil/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s something fundamentally social about consuming cannabis, whether that’s smoking a bowl with a circle of friends, passing a joint around at a concert, or attending an exclusive, West Coast cannabis-infused dinner party. But all that social interaction begs the question of etiquette, and…
People Are Very Upset About the Way This Dude Cuts His Bagels
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twitter user Alek Krautmann ignited controversy this morning with his photo of vertically sliced bagels. Today I introduced my coworkers to the St Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced. It was a hit! pic.twitter.com/XNGbljtpYz — Alek Krautmann (@AlekKrautmann) March 26, 2019 First things first,…
Stop Calling It “Ethnic Food”—and More Tips on How to Talk About Eating
Adalberto Roque/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thai coconut curries and lemongrass soups often include pungent notes of a bumpy, thick-skinned citrus fruit called the makrut lime. English-speakers usually refer to it as kaffir lime. But even as the ingredient gains popularity, turning up in everything from cocktail recipes to…
The Hidden Catastrophe of the Midwest’s Floods
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After “bomb cyclone” storms hit the Midwest last week, large swaths of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri farmland are stricken with floods. “Baby calves were swept into freezing floodwaters, washing up dead along the banks of swollen rivers,” the New York Times reported from the ground in…
Trump’s Stricter Work Requirements for Food Stamps Might Actually Lead to Fewer Jobs
Rahab Kinity, a food stamp recipient, cooks dinner for herself and her son in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2013.Gerry Broome/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump released his latest budget blueprint on March 11, one of the items on the chopping block was the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
Scientists Found Worrisome New Evidence About Roundup and Cancer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The long-simmering debate about whether the world’s most widely used herbicide causes cancer has bubbled up anew. Glyphosate is the key component of weedkillers such as Monsanto’s Roundup. On March 12, attorneys made closing arguments in San Francisco on the first phase of a closely…