food

I’ve written about Thanksgiving history here many times for many years (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010) and this year it feels like time to write again. It is clear that the holiday was ...

A buried lede in a Wired article caught my attention: The majority of schools in the area reported higher-than-average student absenteeism due to flu symptoms. Only one school didn’t: The one with ...

I probably should have put a spoiler alert in the title. A brand new 2020 report from the British Royal Air Force (RAF) warns that they were able to use a swarm ...

The traditional drop cake (also called drop biscuit) was a popular historic treat in America copied from Europe. There were many variations based on different ingredients used such as rye, or butter ...

Spoiler Alert: Hungarians allegedly threw this enigma machine into a pig sty near the Czech/Polish border. Literally sloppy ...

Amazon basically operates like the mob by seeking markets where regulation or justice is too weak to stop it from taking payments for unethical business practices. It allegedly muscles in as an ...

Years ago I wrote about the secret history that lurks behind a famous American dessert. Nobody else, at least to my knowledge, has been thinking and writing about the supply-chain vulnerability management ...

After decades of seeing activists lay out the obvious economics of meat, and reading research by economists confirming the obvious, it looks as if the market finally is shifting. Eating meat is ...

A friend recently went through my liquor cabinet and pulled out a mostly-empty bottle of Knob Creek. I had forgotten about it, although in the early-1990s it had been a favorite. It ...