Ignore the Buzz About Honey Curing Allergies
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A couple of years ago, I was browsing through a farmer’s market in Boston with a friend. We came across a stand selling raw, unfiltered honey from around the country: Vermont, New York, Arizona. Tasting jars sat out on the table. We sampled…
What Canada Can Teach Trump About Milk
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The recent G-7 meeting ended in chaos, with President Donald Trump trading zingers with his better-haired rival, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So now the United States is on the verge of a multi-front trade war, featuring Europe, China, and our erstwhile friendly neighbor, Canada. And Trump…
Trump’s EPA Greenlighted a Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains. Hawaii Just Said, “Hell No.”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the early months of the Trump Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed an Obama-era proposal to ban the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked by ample research to inhibited brain development in children. “Hawaii’s efforts have set a precedent, and we hope this will pave…
Move Over Farro: Freekeh Is Your New Favorite Grain
heinstirred/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Freekeh may sound like some punishing gruel savored only within the confines of hippie communes, circa 1976. But don’t let the name freak you out. Consumed throughout the Eastern Mediterranean at least since the 13th century, freekeh is the unripe, toasted grains of an…
Brash, Swashbuckling, and Humane—Remembering Anthony Bourdain
Mother Jones; Ian West/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Anthony Bourdain is dead at 61. His body was found this morning in a hotel room in France, the country that inspired his work as a chef. He ended his life where he has lived it for so many years—on the…
Growing Your Own Cocktails Makes Gardening a Lot More Fun
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Amy Stewart is a journalist and author who likes to, as Bite podcast host Kiera Butler puts it, “nerd out on plants.” As someone who regularly interviews horticulturists, including for her bestseller The Drunken Botanist, Stewart has accrued a trove of knowledge about them—poisonous…