The Real Reason Pizza Hut Just Rolled Out the Extra-Cheesy
Cheesy enough for you?Courtesy of Pizza Hut Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Remember “stuffed-crust” pizza? Donald Trump likely does. In this Pizza Hut ad from the 1990s, the future president demonstrates the “crust-first” method: Cramming more cheese into products is a hoary and enduring fast-food tactic. Just last month, Pizza…
New Study: Eat Your Strawberries Before Climate Change Wipes Them Out
danny4stockphoto/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. With its year-round sunshine and vast tracts of fertile land, California is one of the jewels of US food production, providing a third of the nation’s vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts. As the climate warms, can we continue to take this…
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…
The Warped Environmentalism of America’s Biggest Industrial Meat Producer
Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Justin Whitmore has the unenviable job of trying to make the nation’s biggest industrial meat company look virtuous. The 35-year-old former McKinsey consultant became Tyson Foods’ first sustainability chief in…
These Popular Pesticides Are Really Bad for the Birds and the Bees
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As spring approaches, US farmers are gearing up to plant about 180 million acres in corn and soybeans—a combined land mass nearly twice the size of California, mostly in the Midwest. The great majority of the seeds they sow will be coated with neonicotinoid pesticides: synthetic chemicals…
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…