Berkeley Has No More Forks to Give
bbstudio_aad/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It might be a good time to invest in a coffee thermos, at least if you live in Berkeley, California: Its city council unanimously passed an ordinance on January 22 to limit restaurants and food vendors from using single-use foodware like plastic-lined paper cups and…
Tom’s Kitchen: A Root Vegetable Salad to Last You Through the Week
Tom Philpott Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In my household, we’ve been relying more and more on batch cooking: devoting concentrated bursts of time to preparing a bunch of food that can be quickly turned into tasty, fuss-free meals throughout the week. But we’ve never really nailed batched salads. Sure,…
José Andrés Just Defended Furloughed Workers and Immigrants in One Swoop
Flickr/USDA/Bob Nichols Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. José Andrés, a celebrated Washington, DC-based chef who migrated from Spain in the early 1990s, is a staunch defender of immigrants. He famously pulled out of a deal to run a restaurant at the Trump International Hotel in 2015 after Donald Trump maligned…
Training Your Tongue to Love Spicy Food Benefits More Than Your Taste Buds
Tourists eat chilies in a hot spring during a contest in Yichun City, east China’s Jiangxi province, in December 2018.Imaginechina/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The tongue-searing, eye-watering heat caused by eating chili peppers comes from a substance called capsaicin. Stuart Walton became very familiar with the stuff while…
You Can Now Be Fined and Jailed for Calling This “Meat”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jon TomacBy the 3rd century, Chinese cooks had found that soy milk could be curdled to create a meat replacement known as tofu. Nearly two millennia later, the Gardenburger hit shelves, followed by the vegetarian’s answer to Thanksgiving: Tofurky. Now you can buy faux-blood-oozing patties…
Here’s What the USDA’s New Nutrition Rules Mean for the 30 Million Children Eating School Lunches
princessdlaf/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, the US Department of Agriculture issued new nutrition standards for school lunches that make it easier for schools to offer less healthy meals to students. The new rules significantly dilute the high standards set by the Obama administration’s 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,…