The Aftertaste of Slavery Still Haunts American Cooking
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amid the ongoing controversy over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his racist medical-school yearbook hijinx, his wife, Pam Northam, recently plunged into another one. During a school tour of the governor’s mansion, built by slave labor in 1813, Pam Northam handed cotton and tobacco to…
The Surprising Benefits of Serving Prisoners Better Food
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Melinda BeckJose Villarreal remembers going to bed hungry most nights during his 10 years in solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison. Dinner might consist of mashed potatoes, bread, and a slice of processed meat—never with salt, and always cold. Shouting through air vents…
Wine Before Beer? Beer Before Wine? There’s Finally a Scientific Answer
HRAUN/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Have you ever heard the saying, “beer before wine and you’ll feel fine; wine before beer and you’ll feel queer?” I hadn’t, but apparently it’s popular in Europe. Germany, England, and France all have sayings with a similar sentiment: Drink in the right order or…
Arkansas Tried to Restrict the Use of This Controversial Pesticide. Monsanto Fought Back and Won.
Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Arkansas regulators voted last Wednesday to relax restrictions on the controversial weedkiller dicamba, despite testimony from top scientists and scores of concerned citizens who urged them to reject the move in a public hearing. As reported last year by FERN and Reveal, dicamba…
Stop Freaking Out About the Future of Climate Change and Start Worrying About the Present
VCG/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While there are a lot of alarm bells sounding over how climate change will affect marine ecosystems and the world’s seafood supply in the future, there’s been much less attention paid to the effects it’s already had on them. In fact, the National Oceanic…
For Pixar’s Domee Shi, “Write What You Know” Yielded a Strange, Magical Chinese Dumpling
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you haven’t seen Bao, one of this year’s Oscar contenders for best animated short film, you’re in for a treat. Or not. In the film, the bao—which is a Chinese word for bun or dumpling—comes to life and grows up right before its mother’s…