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Visual Feast: If The World's Major Cities Were Made Of Food
In America, the word "brunch" conjures up visions of eggs benedict and bagels and lox. But, broadly speaking, "brunch" — as a word and a concept — is a literal blend of breakfast and lunch. And around...
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Looks Matter: A Century Of Iconic Food Packaging
We take the packaging our food comes in for granted. Yet many of the boxes, bags and bottles that protect our edibles were once groundbreaking — both in their design and in how they changed our...
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Tea Tuesdays: The Evolution Of Tea Sets From Ancient Legend To Modern...
People have been drinking tea for so long that its origin story is rooted in mythology: More than 4,700 years ago, one popular version of the story goes, a legendary Chinese emperor and cultural hero...
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Lunch With Monet, Dinner With Jackson Pollock
Regardless of our cooking prowess, all of us have undoubtedly spent some time in the kitchen. We all need to eat, and our preferences are intensely personal. Yet food is often overlooked in the...
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Sexy, Simple, Satirical: 300 Years Of Picnics In Art
As the weather warms up, you might find yourself staring out an office window, daydreaming about what you'd rather be doing: lazing outdoors, perhaps, on a large blanket with a picnic bounty spread...
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These Parents Make Lovely Lunch Bag Art. Not Everyone Is Pleased
While many kids are lucky if their parents send them off to school with a ham and cheese sandwich and an apple in their packed lunches, for some, the midday meal is a work of art.Some parents include...
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Tea Tuesdays: Butter Up That Tea, Tibetan-Style
Butter (arguably) makes everything better – even tea. For Chime Dhorje, who works at Café Himalaya in New York City, the butter in the cup of tea before him ideally comes from a yak.Yak butter tea is...
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Taking Mom Out For Brunch? It's A Feminist Tradition
More than a quarter of American adults will dine out this Mother's Day – and most of them will opt to fete Mom with a breakfast, lunch or brunch out. If this describes your plans, guess what? You're...
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Bistro In Vitro: A Virtual Playground To Ponder The Future Of Meat
Flowering meat that unfolds when plopped into hot broth, beef "yarn" that can be knitted directly onto your plate and fried nuggets made from the extinct dodo bird are just a few of the menu options at...
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Tea Tuesdays: Cold Weather, Gogol And The Rise Of The Russian Samovar
There are two drinks most people associate with Russia — vodka and tea, prepared in a giant hot-water urn known as a samovar.Yet while vodka may have actually originated in Russia (Poland is another...
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As American As Iced Tea: A Brief, Sometimes Boozy History
You'd be forgiven for not knowing this, but Wednesday is National Iced Tea Day. And while it's only an unofficial food holiday, it makes sense that Americans would set aside a day to celebrate this...
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A Toast To Butter Sculpture, The Art That Melts The Hearts Of The Masses
In the Medieval era, kings and queens hosted feasts adorned with surprisingly complexedible sculptures depicting humans and animals alike. Outside the castle walls, of course, people struggled to put...
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From Medicine To Modern Revival: A History Of American Whiskey, In Labels
Many a book, blog and news article has been devoted to the topic of whiskey: the way it's aged, where to drink it, how to store it and serve it or pair it with food. But comparatively little attention...
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Me-Tea-Morphosis: Tea Bags Get Second Life As Works Of Art
Though tea strainers often come in brightly colored, sweet packaging with punny names like "the manatee," the lowly tea bag is often forgotten. Made from silk, plastic or paper, these bags are meant...
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Artists Transform Coffee Spills Into Masterpieces
Ever splashed yourself with coffee or sat a dripping cup down on a white tablecloth? Then you're well aware of the beverage's staining powers. But where some see a ruined shirt, others have found a...
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The Art Of Drinking Absinthe, The Liquor Of Aesthetes
There's something romantic about absinthe — that naturally green liquor derived from wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and...
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How Fishermen's Bragging Rights Gave Birth To Fine Art
Fishing lore is full of tales about "the one that got away," and fishermen have been known to exaggerate the size of their catch. The bragging problem is apparently so bad, Texas even has a law on the...
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A Food Museum Grows In Brooklyn
How did we get vanilla flavor without a vanilla bean? Or chicken flavor made from all-vegetarian ingredients?Though humans have been enjoying the sensory pleasures of flavor since we first popped food...
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'Ingredients': An Eye-Opening Look At The Additives In Our Food
We may eat a lot of food additives, but most consumers know very little about them. These often misunderstood substances go by unwieldy names like "diacetyl" or "azodicarbonamide." They are in...
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'Tacopedia': A Mouth-Watering Tour Of Mexico's Taco Culture
While it's hard to find a person who doesn't at least like tacos, they don't always get the respect they deserve.According to Déborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena, authors of Tacopedia, an impressive new...
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Cooking With Disabilities: An Exercise In Creative Problem Solving
Christine Ha made quite an entrance on season three of the Fox television show Master Chef.Though the final plating of her dishes would not have been out of place in a restaurant, the steps to prepare...
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Holy Ravioli! Cookbook Reveals The Vatican's Favorite Recipes
He loves Argentinian empanadas and dulce de leche. In 2015, he said that if he had only one wish, it would be to travel unrecognized to a pizzeria and have a slice — or two or three. In other words, he...
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Pre-Peeled Oranges: What Some Call 'Lazy' Others Call A 'Lifesaver'
Last week, the Twitterverse became enraged after advertising copywriter Nathalie Gordon posted a photo of pre-peeled, plastic-packaged oranges."If only nature would find a way to cover these oranges so...
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Bubble Tea Is Back — With A Vengeance
Whether you call it "boba" or "bubble" tea, the Taiwanese beverage that allows you to chew your drink is back with a vengeance. It first got its start in the 1980s, after an inventor thought to pour...
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Sing It Now: 'One A Penny, Two A Penny, Hot Cross Buns'
If you're looking for a sweet Easter treat, there's plenty to choose from: chocolate rabbits, jelly beans, intricate sugar eggs and — of course — the ubiquitous Peeps. But there's one slightly more...
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Intentionally Awful Photos Of 'Dimly Lit Meals For One'
Beautifully lit, perfectly styled food photography is everywhere — in magazines, food blogs, and even Instagram, where your 10-year-old cousin is already expert at using natural light to make mom's...
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We Eat Tomatoes, Why Not Tornadoes? A New Kids' Book Clears Up The Confusion
"Don't touch that!""Don't eat that!"These phrases are well known to children of a certain age.Little kids don't quite get why eating ice cream for breakfast five days a week is not a good idea. They...
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'Tiny Kitchen' Videos Cook Up Real Food In Doll-Sized Portions
Honey, I shrunk the queso.They've fried hard shell tacos, made a comforting bowl of chicken noodle soup, even whipped up a batch of rainbow sprinkle-covered doughnuts. In an age of molecular...
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Learn To Make Korean Food With A Charming Graphic Cookbook
"We are a very 100-percent-or-nothing culture," says Robin Ha, the author of a new graphic cookbook Cook Korean! Cold noodles may be served with ice to keep them frosty. Hot soups are served from a...
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#FoodPorn, Circa 1600s: Then And Now, It Was More About Status Than Appetite
The table is set for dinner. Small cooked crabs and shrimp are laid out on the thick wooden tabletop next to succulent figs, grapes, pears and types of produce you can't even name. There's a citrus...
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You Can Eat It Here And There: Green Eggs And Ham Are Everywhere (On Menus)
It's hard to blame the hero of Dr. Seuss' famous Green Eggs and Ham — which turns 56 this month — for being suspicious of the title dish. The illustrated lump of green meat and two eggs with alien...
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From Darkroom To Kitchen: A Time Capsule Of Recipes From Midcentury...
In 1977, Deborah Barsel, a bored assistant registrar at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, N.Y., decided to try a fun side project. She would create a cookbook made up of recipes and images from...
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What Happens When Yelp Restaurant Reviews Turn Political?
Until Sept. 19, if diners had wanted to see Yelp reviews for Elizabeth, N.J., restaurant First American Fried Chicken, they would have found just two of them, praising the food, wide selection and late...
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What's Behind Oregon's Marionberry Mania?
Blackberries grow so voraciously in the Pacific Northwest that it's not rare to stumble across rural barns or abandoned homes that have been completely consumed by the thorny vine. Let them grow too...
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Coffee! Coffee! Coffee! I Finally Got To Be A Gilmore Girl At Luke's Diner
When we finally get close enough to see the "Luke's" sign on the side of the building, a group behind me erupts into song. "Where you lead, I will follow," they belt out. The words to Carole King's...
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From Mobb Deep Rapper, A Cookbook For Healthy Eating — In Prison
It's hard enough to eat healthy even when you have access to grocery stores, sharp knives and refrigerators. But for those in prison, it can be almost impossible.Behind bars, it often takes ingenuity,...
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Decades Later, Salvador Dalí's Decadent Dream Dishes Are Awakened
The hostess is dressed as a unicorn, reclining on a red velvet bed. She's bottle-feeding a lion cub. Monkeys scurry around in the room, which was rented from the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, Calif.For...
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This Heatless Habanero Packs All Of The Flavor With None Of The Burn
For Dan Barber, the celebrated chef of the New York City restaurant Blue Hill, each course of a meal is an opportunity to tell a story. One of these stories is about a pepper — an aromatic, orange...
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How Lemonade Helped Paris Fend Off Plague And Other Surprising 'Food Fights'
Did a thirst for lemonade, the beverage that launched a thousand childhood businesses, keep Paris safe from the bubonic plague? Did ergot poisoning lead to the Crusades? According to a new book by Tom...
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The Foxfire Book Series That Preserved Appalachian Foodways
The 1,500-mile Appalachian Mountain range stretches so far that those on the northern and southern sides can't agree on what to call it: Appa-LAY-chia or Appa-LATCH-ia. The outside perspective on the...
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Broth-Loving Hipsters Are Pushing Up The Price Of Bones
Dear dogs of America — sorry about bone broth. Since this well-marketed take on an ancient beverage started sweeping hip enclaves like New York, Austin and Los Angeles a few years ago, it's getting...
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Oaky, With Notes Of BS: Why Wine Tasting Struggles To Get It On The Nose
To get you to buy a bottle of champagne, M. Cole Chilton, the face who was always behind the counter of my neighborhood wine store in Brooklyn, would send out emails with elaborate descriptions: "I...
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Vegan Cookbooks Spill The Beans About Aquafaba, The Eggless Egg White
Beans, beans, the magical fruitHealthy, tastyAnd useful, to boot!Save that canned water,And whip it to foamIt's an egg-white replacementMade right at home!OK, so it's not the playground rhyme you grew...
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The Big Picture: How Food Photos Have Told Our Story Over The Decades
Photography documents life — and food, whether in the fore or background, seems to always be in the picture. The two intersect in a new book, Feast for the Eyes, written by photography curator Susan...
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'Supersizing Urban America': How U.S. Policies Encouraged Fast Food To Spread
In 1974, McDonald's set its sights on opening a new franchise in Manhattan's Upper East Side at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 66th Street. This location wouldn't be anything like the ketchup and...
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For 4-H Kids, Saying Goodbye To An Animal Can Be The Hardest Lesson
There's nothing like the fair. Visitors can engorge themselves with deep-fried Oreos, hot beef sundaes and heaps of cotton candy. There are rides, craft displays, and, of course, barns full of animals...
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