This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Kitchen Arts & Letters, a legendary cookbook store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is tiny—just 750 square feet—but not an inch of space is wasted. With roughly 12,000 different cookbooks and a staff of former chefs …
Read More »Insiders Say Eat Just Is in Big Financial Trouble
Popular vegan egg and lab-grown-meat company Eat Just is in deep financial trouble. A WIRED investigation bringing together court records, documents, and interviews from former employees suggests that the company frequently struggled with paying its suppliers on time. Now it is being sued by a former partner for roughly $100 …
Read More »This Is the Ops Manual for the Most Tech-Savvy Animal Liberation Group in the US
In recent years, the animal liberation group Direct Action Everywhere has carried out some of the most brazen and tech-savvy operations and investigations to ever target the animal agriculture industry. It has rescued pigs, goats, ducks, and chickens from factory farms and slaughterhouses in midnight intrusions; captured virtual reality footage …
Read More »MìLà Soup Dumplings Make Me Feel Like a Chef
Food is my love language. Sure, it's necessary for survival, but it's also a way to bond with your loved ones and show someone you're thinking about them. Some of my favorite memories involve holiday feasts, but I also love sitting down for a warm, feel-good meal with my cats …
Read More »The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
The United Nations has published a major new tally of the impact the world’s food system has on our health and the planet. According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the total hidden costs of the world’s food system add up to …
Read More »25-Year Lasagna, Special Ops Oatmeal, and the Survival Food Boom
I’m looking at two bowls of lasagna. These ready-to-eat meals with a 25-year shelf life come from two US-based survival food companies. Preparation is simple: Just add hot water. One can be eaten after about 12 minutes, the other after just six. Neither looks particularly appetizing. It probably doesn’t help …
Read More »This Website Exposes the Truth About Soaring Food Prices
It didn't take long for Mario Zechner to prove the government wrong. In May, the independent software developer was listening to a radio interview with Austria’s labor minister, Martin Kocher, who said the government would build a new database that will help people find the cheapest milk, eggs, and other …
Read More »Insiders Reveal Major Problems at Lab-Grown-Meat Startup Upside Foods
On July 1, five diners sat down at the counter of the Michelin-starred Bar Crenn in San Francisco for an unusual meal. They had won a competition to become the first customers in the US to eat cultivated meat—real animal cells grown in bioreactors instead of a living animal. For …
Read More »‘Asada’ Is an Essential, Flavor-Filled Intro to Mexican-Style Grilling
The night before a car-camping feast, I marinated flank steak in OJ, lime juice, cider vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, beer, and a host of toasted spices. The next day, after a flop in the river and some afternoon fishing, I set the steaks onto a cast-iron pan over the campfire. …
Read More »How to Make Better Coffee at Home
The C. Arabica plant is a gift to the world from Ethiopia, and making coffee at home is a centuries-old practice that's now enjoyed on every continent on Earth. At one point or another, everyone who has ever made their own coffee has wondered: How can I make this better? …
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