Articles From Prehistoric Times to Steven Tyler: Our Enduring Fascination with Feathers Humans have been using feathers for their own adornment for thousands of years. But the latest trends reveal our changing relationship with birds.Peter Smith27 Jun, 2011
Articles In Defense of Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging Nature isn't a museum and Hank Shaw, the author of Hunt, Gather, Cook makes a compelling case for eating wild foods.Hank Shaw22 Jun, 2011
Articles Doctor’s Orders: Don’t Eat the Meat If you’re a vegetarian trying to proselytize, it's worth studying a short history of meatless medicine.Peter Smith20 Jun, 2011
Articles A Pork Chart Like None Other Good Books to Read: Meat, Salt, Time A beautiful and important reminder that your "other white meat" comes from a living, sentient being.Peter Smith28 May, 2011
Articles Share These Suds: The Low-Waste Soviet Soda Machine Could we learn from knock-off soda machines once made in Russia?Peter Smith27 May, 2011
Articles Stop with the Roses for Your Mom, Consider Bananas Instead Tim Berners-Lee, the author of How Bad Are Bananas, makes the case for a low-carbon Mother's Day.Peter Smith09 May, 2011
Articles New Book Figures Out the Carbon Footprint of Everything Book: How Bad Are Bananas How Bad Are Bananas looks into the carbon footprint of everything from toilet paper to being cremated.Peter Smith23 Apr, 2011
Articles A World Without Fish, and What You (and Your Kids) Can Do to Change That Good Books to Read: Mark Kurlansky's World Without Fish Mark Kurlansky's newest book, the illustrated World Without Fish, is a grim primer on the destruction of the ocean ecosystem.Peter Smith18 Apr, 2011
Articles Here's What A Lifetime's Worth of Corn Syrup Consumption Looks Like Could a cherished aspect of our diet—those sweet drinks and sugary snacks—actually be toxic in the long run? If only it were that simple.Peter Smith15 Apr, 2011
Articles Tackling Obesity with Neuroscience and Clever Design Good Books: David Kessler's The End of Overeating Learn what David Kessler thinks we should do about our addiction to food and the country's burgeoning obesity problem.Peter Smith07 Apr, 2011
Articles Good Books: Andrew Kuo's What Me Worry In his endearingly nerdy and often compulsive works, artist Andrew Kuo makes a brilliant career of sweating the small stuff.Allison Arieff18 Mar, 2011
Articles If We Can Visualize the Fats in Our Foods, Shouldn't We All Be Reading Modernist Cuisine? Modernist Cuisine: The Epic New Kitchen Manual That Offers New Ways of Visualizing Familiar Foods A massive six-volume culinary opus makes a strong case for a little science to go with your cooking.Peter Smith18 Mar, 2011
Articles Good Books: Niki Segnit's Flavour Thesaurus Good Books to Read: Niki Segnit's Flavour Thesaurus British food writer Niki Segnit's reference book for home cooks lists 99 flavors and 900 common flavor pairings.Peter Smith15 Mar, 2011
Articles Good Books: Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter So you want to read about being a chef? Here's a rare find—a straightforward memoir straight from a talented writer who's also an incredible chef.Peter Smith14 Mar, 2011
Articles Hawaii's Loco Moco and the First Plate Lunch President, Explained Video: Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes What the plate lunch says about the history of Hawaii, President Obama, and America, according to This American Life regular Sarah Vowell.Peter Smith11 Mar, 2011
Articles Food For Thinkers: Old Mr. Flood and a Boston Breakfast of Cod's Cheeks, Tongue, and Flotation Bladder Joseph Mitchell's Old Mr. Flood is Food Writing at its Best Joseph Mitchell's Old Mr. Flood is Peter Smith's pick for the best piece of food writing ever. Why?Peter Smith26 Jan, 2011