Surely, someone out there has cooked up a shrimp fra diavolo and thought, “mamma mia, this would be much easier if…

Surveying the whole scope of human history vis-à-vis food, a couple of themes emerge. One is that humans like their…

If you sat down to eat at any point and in any part of the U.S. in the 1800s, nothing on your plate was quite what it…

The food might taste great, but fancy restaurants generally use tricks to prepare meals perfectly with surprisingly…

It’s hard to define “meat.” The word comes from the Old English “mete,” for food—but what is it today? Can flesh grown…

For one brave man, eating one of the hottest peppers in the world came with an unexpected side effect: Days of…

Can you eat yourself to death on one occasion of very excessive eating? We know that America’s eating problem is bad,…

Love is infamously hard to define. But according to the man, it is absolutely not an ingredient.

Have you ever had gluten-free bread? It’s terrible. That’s because what makes bread delicious is gluten, a protein…

Odds are pretty good that you have consumed a food or beverage item in the past 24 hours containing some sort of…

There’s some crazy meat industry propaganda video waiting to be made where an All-American jock takes a bite out of a…

Coffee seems to be the most overstudied beverage; seemingly every day we’re bombarded with another study about it…

Researchers at MIT have developed deep-learning algorithm that can compile a list of ingredients and even recommend…

Not all hot peppers are created equal, and few are as unequal as the Dragon’s Breath chili—a new breed that may soon…

Food scientists are already looking to some dramatic-sounding options, from bugs to lab-grown meat to large fish farms,…

If your culinary philosophy includes the belief that no kitchen is complete without a bamboo matcha whisk or a box of…

April Fools is over so you can believe me when I say: Scientists are trying to see if maple syrup can be used to help…

Two people have died and four others have gotten sick off of soft raw-milk cheese from Vulto Creamery in New York,…

There could be a future where we eat incredible, sustainable, engineered foods—3D-printed or lab-grown meals,…

For 15 years, pickle makers from across the East Coast have gathered to celebrate brined vegetables at New York City’s…