Food

Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda

Soda’s reputation has fallen a bit flat lately: The all-American beverage most recently made headlines due to an FDA investigation of a potential carcinogen, commonly called “caramel coloring,” used in many soft-drink recipes. This bit of drama follows other recent stories that paint an unflattering picture of the soda industry, including New York’s attempt to…

Tech News Hunter Oatman-Stanford - Collectors Weekly Apr 14

Oreo Fed Me Strange Cookie-Concocted Recipes And I Didn’t Die

Traditionally, you’d eat an Oreo straight of the box, or sometimes very recently dipped in a glass of milk. The people at Oreo felt the need to show that their cookie is more diverse than that, however, so they put it in a bunch of weird recipes and made me eat the result in order…

Tech News Nicholas Stango Apr 14

Instagram Crashed and it Caused a Global Food Crisis

It’s a springtime Saturday, with the weather finally warming up for a lot of folks. Sounds like the perfect day for brunch with friends, right? Wrong. Instagram is down, and it’s causing a panic among aspiring food photographers. Just look at these poor lost souls. All of this is to say nothing of the people…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Apr 12

NASA Is Planting A Veggie Garden In Space

It’s spring planting season and NASA is getting in on the action with a vegetable garden bound for the International Space Station. The experimental garden will be grown in a sealed, expandable chamber which researchers are calling Veggie. Their first crop will be Outredgeous lettuce, a red romaine variety that we can confirm tastes pretty…

io9 Ria Misra Apr 11

For The Elderly, Better Eating Through 3D Printing

The European Union, concerned about the special needs of its rapidly aging population, is spending more than $4 million to develop 3D printers that will produce food that is optimized for the elderly. The program is called PERFORMANCE: an over-labored acronym that stands for “PERsonalized FOod using Rapid MAnufacturing for the Nutrition of elderly ConsumErs.”…

io9 Mark Strauss Apr 10

Geology Bake-off

First, it was the planetary cakes. Then, it was the Star Wars astronomy tea. Then, it was the 3D weather system construction, and the Silurian Death fossilized cupcakes. Now, it’s a full-blown geology bake-off. Geological Society of London is hosting a geology bake-off contest, with entries accepted until May 9th. They’re offering point-breakdowns for different…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 10

The Invention of the Slurpee

They stain tongues green, red, and blue; they send blood sugar levels on Odyssean voyages; they induce brain-freezes that crumble even the most stoic men. Every year, 7,290,000 gallons of Slurpee are consumed worldwide — enough to fill 12 Olympic-size pools. The beverage — essentially frozen, flavored sugar water blasted with carbon dioxide — comes…

Tech News Zachary Crockett - Priceonomics Apr 10

Ridiculous alphabet sandwich has a different ingredient for each letter

DudeFoods made a towering sandwich with 26 different ingredients, one for each letter of the alphabet, because, well, someone had to see what the alphabet in sandwich form would look like. There’s the ABC’s of sandwiches (also known as the the things that make any sandwich better) in avocado, bacon and cheese along with the…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 8

A Calorie Tracking Image Recognition App Keeps Portions Under Control

Worried that you’ve piled your plate too high at the buffet? Researchers at SRI—the folks who created Siri before Apple bought it—are working on a new app that uses image recognition and clever AI to provide a fairly accurate estimate of the calories you’re about to consume. Similar apps already exist, but they either rely…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 8

A Star Wars-Themed Astronomy Tea Party at UC Berkeley

For the first Astronomy Tea after Spring Break at the University of California at Berkeley, astronomers went full Star Wars with a Jabba-the-Hutt bread sculpture, a honeydew melon Death Star, a plate of Han Solos frozen in chocolate, Yoda-cookies, and assorted scones. Jabboule the Hutt and the Honey Death Star. Photography credit: Richard Ellis, California…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Apr 7

Tour the Fish Farm Hidden in a Hong Kong High-Rise

In cities as crowded as Hong Kong, there is nowhere to go but up up up—even for fish. So, on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, is a mini ocean in the sky: 80,000 liters of salt water where young groupers swim under cool, blue light. Could this be the future of urban farming? While…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Apr 4

A Delicious Yoga Bag That Inspires You To Make Room For More Calories

For some people, exercise and working out is a way to keep their bodies fit and trim. But for most of us, it’s just a way to feel less guilty when we overindulge. So to stay inspired to make it all the way through your next yoga class, keep your gear in this giant burrito…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 3

Planet Cakes!

If you eat the planetary science cakes off Solar System plates, does the universe explode? https://gizmodo.com/why-use-the-fine-china-when-you-have-these-awesome-plan-1555372184 https://gizmodo.com/stop-everything-and-look-at-the-greatest-science-cake-e-1555569891

Tech News Mika McKinnon Mar 31

Holy crap, Krispy Kreme is making pie donuts

Donuts are one of the world’s most perfect foods, and it’s just about impossible to make them better. But that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t try. So that’s why I applaud Krispy Kreme for combining its donuts with one of the world’s other most perfect foods: Pie. Today, Krispy Kreme announced two new, limited-edition flavors, and…

Sploid Alissa Walker Mar 31

How Mexico’s Drug Cartels Are Driving Up the Price of Limes

A lime shortage is threatening the U.S. food and beverage industry, with some bars and restaurants jacking up drink prices, charging extra for a slice—or refusing to serve the citrus at all. But there’s another reason to rethink that margarita: The pricey limes you’re buying from Mexico might be supporting drug violence. Bad winter weather…

Tech News Alissa Walker Mar 31

Stop Everything and Look at the Greatest Science Cake Ever

This is possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen, in cake form. It’s a scientifically-accurate planet cake, complete with actual inner layers that make a beautiful cutaway diagram just like you used to bake in your geophysics of cooking courses. Look! Earth even has a magma layer. These cakes were created by Rhiannon from…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 31

What It’s Like to Taste Frozen Food for a Living

Understandably, there is some point in life where getting paid to stuff your face with french fries might sound like a desirable thing. For most people, this point quickly passes. A former professional frozen food taster tells all in a gross and engrossing interview at The Billfold. Matthew is a 24-year-old freelance illustrator who picked…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Mar 30

Big Brown Bats Call Dibs On Their Dinners

You probably can’t tell, but there’s quite a bit of bat chatter going on in the American night sky. We knew that bats use echolocation to find food, but researchers have recently realized that they also have a variety of social calls. At ScienceNews, Scicurious reports on new research that describes one function of that…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Mar 27

Is This Weird Little Blob The Future Of Bottled Water?

We get it. Our love of drinking water from disposable plastic bottles is a problem, enough of a problem that San Francisco actually wants to ban them. But then what will we drink water out of? Ooho, a biodegradable membrane made of brown algae, is an interesting idea. https://gizmodo.com/san-francisco-plans-on-banning-plastic-water-bottles-1537893968 Touted by some as an “edible…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 26

Aromatic Forks Let You Mix Random Smells With Your Food

Do you ever take a bite of steak and wish it tasted a little more like chocolate? Well, wish no more, brave foodie. The Aromafork will make your dreams come true. Designed by the molecular gastronomy outfit Molecule-R, this smelly piece of flatware does exactly what you’d imagine something called “The Aromafork” would do. It…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 26

Medicinal Soft Drinks and Coca-Cola Fiends: The Toxic History of Soda

Oreo Fed Me Strange Cookie-Concocted Recipes And I Didn’t Die

Instagram Crashed and it Caused a Global Food Crisis

NASA Is Planting A Veggie Garden In Space

For The Elderly, Better Eating Through 3D Printing

Geology Bake-off

The Invention of the Slurpee

Ridiculous alphabet sandwich has a different ingredient for each letter

A Calorie Tracking Image Recognition App Keeps Portions Under Control

A Star Wars-Themed Astronomy Tea Party at UC Berkeley

Tour the Fish Farm Hidden in a Hong Kong High-Rise

A Delicious Yoga Bag That Inspires You To Make Room For More Calories

Planet Cakes!

Holy crap, Krispy Kreme is making pie donuts

How Mexico’s Drug Cartels Are Driving Up the Price of Limes

Stop Everything and Look at the Greatest Science Cake Ever

What It’s Like to Taste Frozen Food for a Living

Big Brown Bats Call Dibs On Their Dinners

Is This Weird Little Blob The Future Of Bottled Water?

Aromatic Forks Let You Mix Random Smells With Your Food

Southwest Is About to Limit Power Banks on Flights

Damn, the ‘Power Rangers’ Reboot Could’ve Had Four Movies

The Live-Action ‘One Piece’ Team Wants to Go the Distance

‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Will Please Gross Horror Fans

Somehow Paramount’s ‘Avatar’ Movie Has Leaked, Too

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