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nytimes.com April 22, 2019
Don’t Call It Tex-Mex

A writer and chef is on a quest to tell the world about Texas Mexican food, the cooking of South Texas and northern Mexico that predates and spans the border. HOUSTON — This city’s Second Ward is full of temptations for Adán Medrano, a writer and chef who lives just a few miles southeast.
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inverse.com April 21, 2019
Which Fruit Is the Best for Your Health? Here's What 3 Nutritionists Said

Most of us know eating fruit daily is a great way to try to stay healthy, with the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating encouraging us to eat two servings a day.
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realsimple.com April 19, 2019
The 9 Commandments for Cooking Perfectly Crispy Oven-Roasted Potatoes

Roasted potatoes are an unfailingly simple side dish to cook. They’re the ultimate crowd-pleaser, too: hearing someone say they don’t like crispy potatoes is just as puzzling as someone telling you they dislike puppies or going through the car wash. Sheet pan potatoes just spark joy.
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wellandgood.com April 21, 2019
7 Mediterranean diet recipes you’ll love to make with your Instant Pot

In the current moment, the Mediterranean diet and the Instant Pot dominate in conversations about food. Unlike some other wellness “trends,” these two stand the test of time. Pair them up for a match made in heaven.
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buzzfeed.com April 21, 2019
Grocery Store Employees Are Sharing Their Darkest Secrets And It's Honestly Kinda Shocking

This week, a Reddit thread asked grocery store employees to share all the dirty secrets that customers don't know about. The thread quickly went viral, as more and more employees started chiming in with their store's darkest secrets.
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theguardian.com April 20, 2019
From artichoke paella to Singapore noodles: Miguel Barclay's vegan £1 meals

Fry the onion in a splash of olive oil over a medium heat for a few minutes, until softened, add the garlic, then fry for a few more minutes. Just before the garlic starts to brown, add the red pepper, rice and turmeric, then season with salt and pepper.
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mybakingaddiction.com April 23, 2019
New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

There are a few things I’m known for amongst family and friends. Cheesecake ranks pretty high on the list and so does my homemade lasagna, but these chocolate chip cookies are probably number 1.
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nytimes.com April 22, 2019
How to Get Eggplant Right

When an eggplant dish is bad, it’s enough to put you off eggplant forever. But when it’s good, it’s heaven. Yotam Ottolenghi’s new recipe promises celestial results. LONDON — It’s a fine line, when you cook, between success and failure.
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npr.org April 22, 2019
Meal Kits Have A Smaller Carbon Footprint Than Grocery Shopping, Study Says

Meal kit delivery services like Blue Apron or HelloFresh promise gourmet meals without the hassle of shopping for ingredients. But the environmentally conscious consumer may feel guilty about seeing all the plastic and cardboard it takes to bring that Pork and Veggie Bibimbap to their doorstep.
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theguardian.com April 20, 2019
Yotam Ottolenghi’s dumpling recipes

There are two types of dumplings and, like my two children (who are also rather dumplingy), I love them both equally. I adore the stuffed ones – the dim sums and pierogis of this world – for the contrast between the springy casing and soft, steamy inside.
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vox.com February 1, 2019
Eating breakfast is not a good weight loss strategy, scientists confirm

You probably feel guilty when you skip breakfast. Why wouldn’t you? Many of us grew up with parents fussing to make sure we had something in our bellies before we set off for school.
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theatlantic.com March 7, 2019
The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day

Vern Loomis, a retired structural draftsman in West Bloomfield, Michigan, had a standard office lunch: a peanut-butter sandwich, with various fruit, vegetable, and dessert accompaniments. He ate this, he estimates, nearly every workday for about 25 years.
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washingtonpost.com August 23, 2015
Why salad is so overrated

As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic. Almonds, for their water use. Corn, for the monoculture. Beef, for its greenhouse gases.
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theatlantic.com January 18, 2019
What Life Is Like When Corn Is off the Table

When Christine Robinson was first diagnosed with a corn allergy 17 years ago, she remembers thinking, “No more popcorn, no more tacos. I can do this.” Then she tried to put salt on her tomatoes. (Table salt has dextrose, a sugar derived from corn.) She tried drinking bottled iced tea.
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theguardian.com March 16, 2019
Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food

We are now producing and consuming more food than ever, and yet our modern diet is killing us. How can we solve this bittersweet dilemma? Pick a bunch of green grapes, wash it, and put one in your mouth.
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theguardian.com June 18, 2017
Meet the chef who’s debunking detox, diets and wellness

A few minutes into my encounter with the Angry Chef, I begin to wonder if his moniker might be ironic, like the big guy whose friends call him “Tiny”.
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vox.com August 20, 2018
Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here’s how that happened.

A year after James Cadbury, the 30-something great-great-great-grandson of the British chocolatier John Cadbury, launched his luxury cocoa startup in 2016, he introduced an avocado chocolate bar. Cadbury Jr.
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mashable.com March 21, 2017
The scents in your body wash, chicken stock and canned drink all come from one company

What's the first thing you do upon waking up? If your answer's brushing your teeth or taking a shower, chances are you're already using a product developed by Givaudan.
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newyorker.com September 5, 2016
Pete Wells Has His Knives Out

Pete Wells, the restaurant critic of the Times, who writes a review every week—and who occasionally writes one that creates a national hubbub about class, money, and soup—was waiting for a table not long ago at Momofuku Nishi, a modish new restaurant in Chelsea.
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theguardian.com February 19, 2019
How the world got hooked on palm oil

It’s the miracle ingredient in everything from biscuits to shampoo. But our dependence on palm oil has devastating environmental consequences. Is it too late to break the habit? By Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there grew a magical fruit.
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qz.com December 17, 2015
How the Mast Brothers fooled the world into paying $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate

By Whether you’ve seen their beautifully wrapped bars for sale at Shake Shack or Rag & Bone, featured in the pages of the New York Times or Vogue, or decorating one of their New York, London, or soon, LA shops, Mast Brothers chocolate bars have become the world’s most prominent brand of artisa
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theguardian.com July 13, 2016
Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests

Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the environment.
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phillymag.com August 12, 2018
How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise

The inexorable rise of identity condiments has led to hard times for the most American of foodstuffs. And that’s a shame.
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wired.com July 19, 2016
David Chang’s

y first restaurant, Momofuku Noodle Bar, had an open kitchen. This wasn’t by choice—I didn’t have enough money or space to put it farther away from the diners. But cooking in front of my customers changed the way I look at food.
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npr.org March 24, 2019
For A Healthier Planet, Eat These 50 Foods, Campaign Urges

Why would a wildlife conservation organization be involved in a campaign to push people to diversify their diets? As it turns out, the way we humans eat is very much linked to preserving wildlife — and many other issues.
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eater.com November 19, 2018
Do You Even Bake, Bro?

Friend, have you heard the good news? Bread is back. After a 20-year period of privileged carb-fearing in America, our hunger for hearty artisan bread has returned in a way that we haven’t experienced since the ’90s.
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theatlantic.com January 25, 2019
The Murky Ethics of the Ugly-Produce Business

Do you know what baby carrots actually are? For me, the baby-carrot jig was up a couple years ago.
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aeon.co June 6, 2018
Bananas Have Died Out Once Before

You probably take bananas for granted. In the United Kingdom, one in four pieces of fruit consumed is a banana and, on average, each Briton eats 10 kg of bananas per year; in the United States, that’s 12 kg, or up to 100 bananas. When I ask people, most seem to think bananas grow on trees.
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grubstreet.com March 19, 2018
The Last Conversation You’ll Ever Need to Have About Eating Right

It’s beyond strange that so many humans are clueless about how they should feed themselves. Every wild species on the planet knows how to do it; presumably ours did, too, before our oversized brains found new ways to complicate things.
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eater.com July 22, 2014
Inside Sun Noodle, the Secret Weapon of America's Best Ramen Shops

There were only about three or four ramen shops on Oahu when Hidehito Uki founded Sun Noodle in 1981. Ramen in America was pretty much just a cup of noodles you cooked in the microwave.
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nytimes.com December 28, 2018
What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.?

The European Union prohibits many food additives and various drugs that are widely used in American foods. Q. What foods are banned in Europe that are not banned in the United States, and what are the implications of eating those foods?
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fastcompany.com May 1, 2013
Deep Inside Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Taco

In early 2009, three years prior to Taco Bell’s 50th anniversary, CEO Greg Creed was already experiencing something of a midlife crisis. “Our target audience is [customers] in their 20s. Turning 50 makes us sound old, and I didn’t want to sound old,” Creed explains.
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nytimes.com October 24, 2018
In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate. It’s an Obsession.

The seven-story Don Quijote megastore in the Shibuya district of Tokyo is open 24 hours a day, but it’s hard to say when it’s rush hour, because there’s always a rush.
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consumerreports.org January 16, 2019
Are Potatoes Good for You?

They’ve been maligned in nutrition circles for decades, with links to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. But they’re also highly satisfying and provide many essential nutrients. So are potatoes good for you or not?
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theguardian.com November 24, 2017
How the Sandwich Consumed Britain

The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year. It transformed the way we eat lunch, then did the same for breakfast – and now it’s coming for dinner. By
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nytimes.com February 20, 2013
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies.
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nytimes.com August 1, 2015
My Dinner With Longevity Expert Dan Buettner (No Kale Required)

Dan Buettner and I were off to a good start. He approved of coffee.
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nytimes.com May 16, 2017
What’s New in the Supermarket? A Lot, and Not All of It Good

NUTLEY, N.J. — “We’ve come in the back door,” the writer Michael Ruhlman said as we entered the chill of the ShopRite supermarket here. “We should be over there, in produce.”
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telegraph.co.uk June 12, 2016
Think organic food is better for you, animals, and the planet? Think again

What we eat is seen as more important than ever. And everywhere we are urged to go organic: we are told it is more nutritious, it improves animal welfare and helps the environment. In reality, that is mostly marketing hype.
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medium.com October 27, 2016
What to Eat to Live to 100

That is why I recently read the The Blue Zones Solution, in which New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner reveals the eating and living habits of the world’s longest-lived people.
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bloomberg.com November 8, 2018
The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple

Bite into a Honeycrisp apple and you understand why consumers are willing to pay so much for a piece of fruit: the crunch. That’s no accident.
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theguardian.com November 24, 2017
How the Sandwich Consumed Britain

The world-beating British sandwich industry is worth £8bn a year. It transformed the way we eat lunch, then did the same for breakfast – and now it’s coming for dinner. By
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psmag.com January 21, 2019
The Limits of Home Cooking

In 1870, the American cookbook author Jane Cunningham denounced an alarming new trend in the nation's mealtime habits: eating dinner in the evening. Since the colonial era, Americans had eaten their primary meal around midday, fueling themselves for the rest of the workday.
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story.californiasunday.com March 30, 2017
Cooking Lessons

Disillusioned with fine dining, one of the world’s great chefs took on fast food. It has been harder than he ever imagined.
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theguardian.com February 21, 2015
Inside the food industry: the surprising truth about what you eat

Think you eat only healthy, unprocessed foods? Think again. Joanna Blythman went undercover and discovered that even your fruit salad is not what it seems
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newyorker.com January 29, 2019
What Rutabaga Does Better Than Anything Else

The Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin was born in Basel in 1560, and he dedicated his life to obsessively cataloguing the vegetable world.
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newyorker.com August 29, 2016
The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America

The first time Jeffrey Merrihue came across the name Damon Baehrel, he was amazed that he hadn’t heard of him. “I didn’t understand how the secret had been kept,” Merrihue said recently. “The people I go around with, it’s hard for us to find something that is genuinely unique and new.
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gq.com December 20, 2018
Is Intermittent Fasting Really Worth It?

Chris Pratt! Hugh Jackman! Halle Berry! Kourtney Kardashian! What these celebrities have in common, other than a gratuitous exclamation point after their names, is a professed fondness for intermittent fasting, the diet craze turning the fitness world on its sweaty, well-toned head.
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newyorker.com November 2, 2015
Freedom from Fries

Like many of their millennial peers, Kathleen Davis and Andrea Nguyen eat out a lot. “Nothing fancy,’’ Davis told me one recent evening, as she took a sidewalk table next to mine at Sweetgreen in Nolita. “We want what we eat to be healthy and tasty,’’ Davis said.
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vox.com August 20, 2018
Dark chocolate is now a health food. Here’s how that happened.

A year after James Cadbury, the 30-something great-great-great-grandson of the British chocolatier John Cadbury, launched his luxury cocoa startup in 2016, he introduced an avocado chocolate bar. Cadbury Jr.
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theguardian.com January 5, 2016
No diet, no detox: how to relearn the art of eating

So many of our anxieties around diet take the form of a search for the perfect food, the one that will cure all our ills. Eat this! Don’t eat that! We obsess about the properties of various ingredients: the protein, the omega oils, the vitamins.
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ny.eater.com August 7, 2015
New York Pizza Styles: A Complete Guide

Although New York City has long had a clearly defined and ubiquitous style of pizza, the city's appetite for the dish knows no bounds. While New Yorkers can certainly be parochial and protective of their home slice, they can also be open and accepting of different pizza points of view.
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nytimes.com January 7, 2019
There Is a Free Lunch, After All. It’s at the Office.

What was once an extra is now a necessity, as companies give their employees free ice cream and beer, Pop-Tarts and prime rib — often with an agenda attached. Everyone who works at Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in Burlington, Vt., is entitled to three free pints of ice cream for each day of work.
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newyorker.com October 17, 2016
The Real Soylent Sickness

I have never tasted Soylent, the meal substitute dreamed up in Silicon Valley’s hacker-engineering culture and beloved by tech workers, but it hasn’t exactly received raves for flavor.
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fastcompany.com August 16, 2017
What Happened When I Ate The Best Brain Foods For A Week

We know that there is a strong connection between your physical health and work performance. I thought I was doing pretty well. I consider myself a pretty healthy person: I try to run one half marathon a year, and exercise four or five times a week.
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fortune.com May 21, 2015
Special Report: The war on big food

Try this simple test. Say the following out loud: Artificial colors and flavors. Pesticides. Preservatives. High-fructose corn syrup. Growth hormones. Antibiotics. Gluten. Genetically modified organisms.
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hbr.org September 22, 2017
The Grocery Industry Confronts a New Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking

The supermarket and grocery business is likely to suffer strong headwinds in the future, due to long-term shifts in consumer behavior. Although many people don’t realize it yet, grocery shopping and cooking are in a long-term decline.
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vanschneider.com December 30, 2016
No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months

Exactly today (Dec. 26th 2016) I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol or coffee in 27 months. If you're reading this later, you can do the math yourself. A couple of my friends on Facebook & Twitter asked me to write about my experience, so here it is, in a nutshell.
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eater.com August 9, 2017
What Brands Are Actually Behind Trader Joe’s Snacks?

Mark Gardiner was a former VP of marketing and an advertising consultant before taking a job as a crew member at a Trader Joe’s store in Kansas City six years ago.
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washingtonpost.com April 26, 2017
People think juice is good for them. They’re wrong.

Mrs. G. came to our offices for her first visit distraught. Her primary-care doctor had just diagnosed her with diabetes, and she was here for advice. She was shocked by the diagnosis. She had always been overweight and had relatives with diabetes, but she believed she lived a healthy lifestyle.
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nytimes.com April 3, 2013
Yes, Healthful Fast Food Is Possible. But Edible?

See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com.When my daughter was a teenager, about a dozen years ago, she went through a vegetarian phase.
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theatlantic.com April 16, 2019
The Coming Obsolescence of Animal Meat

SAN FRANCISCO—The thought I had when the $100 chicken nugget hit my expectant tongue was the one cartoon villains have when they entrap a foreign critter and roast him over a spit: It tastes like chicken.
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nautil.us December 10, 2015
What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner

You may think twice about your diet when you follow the metabolic fate of your food. Let’s admit it. Few of us like to think, much less talk about our colons. But you might be surprised at the importance of what gets into your colon and what goes on inside it.
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food52.com February 8, 2019
The Absolute Best Way to Cook Bacon, According to Sooo Many Tests

Ask the person to your left and the person to your right how to cook bacon, and you'll likely get two completely different answers. Type the very same into Google, and the search engine will proffer over 250 million results.
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eater.com February 20, 2019
A Critic for All Seasons

“If one were offered dinner for two at any price, to be eaten in any restaurant anywhere in the world, what would the choice be? And in these days of ever‐higher prices, what would the cost be?” the critic Craig Claiborne once asked in a restaurant review for the New York Times.
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1843magazine.com February 28, 2019
Death of the calorie

The first time that Salvador Camacho thought he was going to die he was sitting in his father’s Chrysler sedan with a friend listening to music.
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realsimple.com April 12, 2019
This Clever Cooking Trick Will Seriously Upgrade Your Roasted Vegetables

There are few foods better than roasted vegetables. Roasting makes almost every veggie—from sweet potatoes to cauliflower, carrots, cabbage, and more—taste more flavorful, caramelized, and complex.
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theguardian.com January 29, 2019
White gold: the unstoppable rise of alternative milks

How wellness upstarts spoiled milk’s healthy reputation – and built a billion-dollar industry from juicing oats and nuts. In the spring of 2018, New York was gripped by a sudden, very particular and, for some, calamitous food shortage. Gaps appeared on grocery shelves.
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ozy.com May 20, 2015
The Science Behind Baking the Most Delicious Cookie Ever

You like soft and chewy. He likes thin and crispy. If only there were a chocolate chip cookie recipe that pleased everyone… There is! And, no, it’s not Martha Stewart’s. It’s science.
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nytimes.com June 23, 2014
Deconstructing the Perfect Burger

How to make a great hamburger is a question that has bedeviled the nation for generations, for as long as Americans have had griddles and broilers, for as long as summertime shorts-wearing cooks have gone into the yard to grill.
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bbc.com January 28, 2019
Italy’s practically perfect food

It’s like a culinary riddle: what is a food made of only three ingredients where the main processing is done by invisible workers; which can be eaten as an appetizer, condiment or dessert; and which is prescribed by doctors to cure ailments?
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theguardian.com March 5, 2019
The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops

When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better. By On a Thursday morning in April 1990, in the suburb of Stechford in Birmingham, a strange grocery chain started trading in the UK.
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quiet-corner.com June 1, 2017
Turmeric – The Healthiest Plant on Earth

The health benefits of turmeric are undeniable. Eastern natural medicine has used it for treatments of different health issues for hundreds of years. Turmeric owes its strong medicinal properties to curcumin, its main active ingredient.
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newyorker.com January 26, 2015
The Shake Shack Economy

In 2004, when Danny Meyer opened a burger stand named Shake Shack in Madison Square Park, it didn’t look like the foundation of a global empire. There was just one location, and Meyer was known for high-end venues like Gramercy Tavern.
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nytimes.com June 22, 2018
The Secret to Perfect Popcorn Is Already in Your Cupboard

Beyond butter and salt, oil — and lots of it — makes for the most impeccably crunchy kernels. Then I tasted Jessica Koslow’s recipe, and my popcorn world exploded.
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thesimpledollar.com August 20, 2016
20 Strategies for Radically Cutting Your Food Expenses

The average American family spends $151 a week on food, according to this Gallup poll. That’s actually quite a lot of money when you consider that the average week contains just 21 meals and that it’s relatively easy to eat a meal that costs less than $1.
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bloomberg.com October 24, 2018
Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire

On Aug. 1, Brooklyn Burger Factory began selling gourmet patties in its residential neighborhood of Crown Heights. But even though the restaurant serves a steady stream of jerk burgers, salmon burgers, and veggie burgers, not a single person has shown up to eat one.
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food52.com July 13, 2016
The Five Mother Sauces Every Cook Should Know

We partnered with Jet.com so you can browse their (digital) shelves while you're searching for ingredients or supplies. (Seriously, they have everything!) Get almost every ingredient for this recipe here.
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thrillist.com December 30, 2016
There's a Massive Restaurant Industry Bubble, and It's About to Burst

Editor's Note: This is the third and final story in Kevin Alexander's extensive and obsessive year-long investigation into the state of the American restaurant industry. You can read parts one and two here.
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outsideonline.com February 4, 2019
How Energy Bars Became America's Favorite Snack Food

In 2003, Beryl Stafford and her daughter Alex (nickname: Bobo) decided to do some baking on a rare dreary day at home in Boulder, Colorado. Rifling through the cupboards, they found the ingredients for oat bars.
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nytimes.com October 2, 2017
Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

ACCRA, Ghana — After finishing high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer courses, dropped out to work in a hotel, then settled into a well-paying job in the booming oil sector here.
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artofmanliness.com January 18, 2013
Testosterone Week: How I Doubled My Testosterone Levels Naturally and You Can Too

At last we’ve reached the final post of Testosterone Week and based on the comments from you all, this is the post you’ve been most looking forward to. Today I’m going to share what I did during my 90-day experiment in order to double my total and free testosterone levels.
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mercola.com July 1, 2018
10 Banned Foods Americans Should Stop Eating Infographic

Are you eating food that's already banned in other countries but is still allowed to poison and kill Americans? Learn these pernicious ingredients and common foods through this infographic. Use the embed code to share it on your website.
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theatlantic.com November 22, 2018
Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits

For 25 years in Georgia, I watched my mom make the same batch of six light, fluffy biscuits for breakfast almost every Sunday. Then I moved to New York, never to see a light, fluffy biscuit again.
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theatlantic.com March 14, 2019
In the Future, Everything Will Be Made of Chickpeas

In 2007, Poorvi Patodia was pregnant and felt like she was eating too many chips. Her cravings for salty, crunchy snacks were intense, but what moms should eat while pregnant is a touchy subject. “I had this thought of, What else could I be eating that’s better for me?” she says.
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vox.com September 19, 2018
How does a food become a trend? Ask cauliflower.

First came the cauliflower steaks, thick vegetal slabs, roasted and served like cruciferous T-bones. Then there was Buffalo cauliflower, breaded and fried and generally chicken-shaped.
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thekitchn.com September 12, 2015
How To Cook Moist & Tender Chicken Breasts Every Time

Flatten the chicken breasts. Pound the chicken breasts to an even thickness with the bottom of a wide jar or glass. You can also use the bottom of a small frying pan. Season the chicken breasts. Lightly season the chicken with salt and pepper.
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theguardian.com August 11, 2017
Why We Fell for Clean Eating

The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it.
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npr.org January 16, 2019
In Home Of Original Sriracha Sauce, Thais Say Rooster Brand Is Nothing To Crow About

Sriracha sauce. It's everywhere. Even beer and donuts. The fiery chili paste concocted by Vietnamese-American immigrant David Tran has conquered the American market and imagination in the past decade.
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thekitchn.com March 27, 2016
How To Hard Boil Eggs Perfectly Every Time

Do you know how to make perfect boiled eggs every single time? Let us show you — it’s so easy with this basic recipe that lets you choose eggs that are boiled hard, soft, or in between. One bad hard-boiled egg can ruin you for life.
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fortune.com November 12, 2014
Fallen Arches: Can McDonald's get its mojo back?

Perhaps no episode captures what’s ailing the world’s largest restaurant company better than the Mighty Wings Debacle of 2013. In September of last year, McDonald’s launched an ambitious program to sell deep-fried chicken wings across its 14,000 U.S. locations.
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washingtonpost.com September 17, 2018
Ten fruits and vegetables you’re storing wrong

Store at room temperature in an open container, to allow air circulation. Don’t take off a clove’s protective papery husk until you’re ready to prep. And it’s fine to store garlic next to its buddy, the onion. Find some (clean) pantyhose.
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medium.com January 24, 2018
Why I left Google to join Grab

Note: This is my first time using Medium. Please forgive any faux pas. Also, it’s pretty long even for me, so you might want to go grab a coffee. I’ll wait. Also, please note that these are my own personal opinions: I do not speak for my employers, old or new.
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fastcompany.com June 7, 2018
Bananas have died out once before–don’t let it happen again

You probably take bananas for granted. In the United Kingdom, one in four pieces of fruit consumed is a banana and, on average, each Briton eats 10 kg of bananas per year; in the United States, that’s 12 kg, or up to 100 bananas. When I ask people, most seem to think bananas grow on trees.
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healthline.com August 10, 2018
22 High-Fiber Foods You Should Eat

Fiber is incredibly important. It leaves your stomach undigested and ends up in your colon, where it feeds friendly gut bacteria, leading to various health benefits (1, 2).
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treehugger.com January 23, 2019
Canada's new food guide is loyal to science, not the food industry

The authors refused to use any industry-backed studies and the result is a guide that differs dramatically from past ones. Canada's new food guide, released on Tuesday, is causing a splash. The 62-page document is a drastic departure from food guides of the past.
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theguardian.com April 7, 2016
The Sugar Conspiracy

In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
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eater.com July 6, 2017
Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie

This is Eater Voices, where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. First-time writer? Don’t worry, we’ll pair you with an editor to make sure your piece hits the mark.
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greatist.com November 22, 2016
60 Ways to Spice Up Boring Chicken Breasts

If you make the same baked chicken breasts week after week, you're bound to get tired of the bird. But when you change 'em up and try them in a variety of recipes (spicy chicken, sweet chicken, crispy chicken, chicken tenders), they taste pretty damn good every single time.
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vogue.com July 23, 2017
Sad Desk Lunch No More: How to Have a Better Meal at Work

Weekday lunches can be pretty bleak: limp salad, mushy sandwiches, take-out soup served so tongue-scaldingly hot you can’t even taste how truly mediocre it is.
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qz.com August 29, 2015
Buying organic veggies at the supermarket is a waste of money

It has happened to all of us. You’re standing in the produce aisle, just trying to buy some zucchini, when you face the inevitable choice: Organic or regular?
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foodbabe.com July 24, 2017
Before You Ever Buy Bread Again...Read This! (And Find The Healthiest Bread On The Market)

Yes, I eat bread. It’s time to address the many questions I get about one of most wonderful and satisfying foods on earth – Bread! I don’t want to live without it and you shouldn’t have to either. Bread is a really hot topic and is targeted as the root of many health problems.
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theatlantic.com December 5, 2018
How Pink Salt Took Over Millennial Kitchens

For decades, I was under the impression that salt is white. Table salt, sea salt, kosher salt, whatever—the sky is blue, the salt is white, and that’s just how things are.
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buzzfeed.com December 6, 2015
15 Easy Things You Can Do That Will Help When You Feel Like Shit

1. Get a drink of water. 2. Make your bed.When you have a lot to do and it feels overwhelming, making your bed can be the first step in getting your life on track. It will also (hopefully) discourage you from getting back into it. 3. Take a shower. 4.
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popsugar.com February 12, 2019
If You're Avocado-Obsessed, You Need to Know This Life-Changing Storage Hack

While grocery shopping last weekend, purchasing my six avocados, I unknowingly was about to have a life-changing experience in the checkout line. My family and I are obsessed with avocados.
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theguardian.com August 29, 2016
The truth about superfoods

Few lies can be told in one word, but “superfood” manages it. It is such an appealing idea: that some foods are healthy, some unhealthy and some superhealthy.
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munchies.vice.com April 11, 2018
I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week

After 9/11, my dad filled a duffel bag with some energy bars, a couple gallons of water, some penicillin, and a map. Amid scaremongering headlines about imminent anthrax and “dirty bomb” attacks in the city, he wanted to have some supplies on hand in case we needed to get out of Brooklyn fast.
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nytimes.com May 25, 2013
Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food

WE like the idea that food can be the answer to our ills, that if we eat nutritious foods we won’t need medicine or supplements. We have valued this notion for a long, long time.
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