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Can traditional foods help manage disease?

Indiana University scholar Funmi Ayeni shares her surprising research on a simple food used in households throughout Nigeria to treat malaria. Read More »

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Indigenous foodways as tools of empowerment

Hands with brown skin holding pale seed pods over a plastic container partially filled with gray, round seeds.

An anthropologiical bioarcheologist studies precolonial burial sites to understand Indigenous foodways of the past and present.

Eli Trinkle stands holding a stemmed glass with beer, and a bottle of beer next to it. Wooden barrels are visible in the background

Huge wooden foeders, wild yeast, and hundreds of pounds of fruit make Upland’s sour beer program one of a kind.

Rebecca Spang standing and smiling and gesturing forward towards a person seated at a table. A white board is in the background, two plastic water bottles and papers are on the table.

Restaurants underwent dramatic transformations during the COVID-19 pandemic. We talk about how restaurants came to be, and speculate on where they’re headed.

A drawing in the style of a tarot card with a person and palm production supply, next to a black and white head shot of Max Haiven

What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap food production?

Beth Hoffman and John Hogeland standing close together in a field with a sunset sky, pasture and small trees behind them.

Farm life still manages to attract young people, but they often come to the land with unrealistic expectations.

Toby Foster with headphones and microphone at an outdoor table looking at Dan Simmons who is gesturing with his hands

Plant-based tacos are on the menu at Tacotarian in Las Vegas, Nevada

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World Central Kitchen, led by a humanitarian chef, has fed crisis zones for years

Jose Andres holding white plastic bags full of food

The aid group World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that it is pausing its efforts to feed Palestinians in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed by an Israeli strike.

Richie Jerimovich poses in kitchen with deep fryer basket in his hand

Chefs may hang up their hats at the end of the day, but the principles of the kitchen find their way from the pots and pans and into their lives. FX's The Bear illustrates this with striking character development that we can all find a bit of ourselves in.

Farmer stares into the distance as he poses for a picture

Biosolids — a type of treated sewage byproduct from wastewater treatment plants — are used as a nutrient-rich fertilizer on farms across the Midwest. But a group of toxic “forever chemicals” are slipping through the cracks and could be inadvertently contaminating millions of acres of farmland.