Why do some foods make us smell funny?
We are all well-acquainted with the terrors of garlic breath and odoriferous onion-laden meals. Perhaps slightly less well known is that asparagus makes your pee smell ... so much so that a British...
View ArticleEric Ripert, Frenchman, goes native with an American classic
When Eric Ripert set out to make the perfect burger, he found his inspiration in an unlikely place."It may sound crazy coming from a French chef, but the inspiration behind this burger is actually...
View ArticleWhat is the meaning of meat eating?
Tonight, we have the privilege of publishing a beautiful, fascinating story by Luke Meinzen on eating horse in Mongolia. As I read it, I felt transported to that huge country of small moments,...
View ArticleHorse as main course
As a child, the closest I got to horses was a coin-operated mustang in the grocery store. I was mostly indifferent to them, boyhood cowboy phase excepted, until a history professor described the Mongol...
View ArticleKilling dinner
After a tour of his garden, where tomatoes were bombing from the vines and melons lolled about like a bowling alley after close, my friend Shelby showed me his chickens. He opened the door to the coop,...
View ArticleA Lutheran turned vegetarian
I became a vegetarian when I was 15. It was health-related at first; I had begun to notice an unpleasant, heavy feeling in my stomach after eating meat, and when I didn't eat it, I felt better. But...
View ArticleAfrica brought out the meat-eater in me
The butcher took a long blade and thwap, sunk it deep into the sheep's ribcage. Thwap. The next cut cracked bone. Soon the man was wrapping a large piece of flesh in newsprint. My Senegalese host...
View ArticleWhat to know about the great egg recall
The incredible edible egg is starting to seem like a cup of poison these days, what with a recall of half a billion of the poor things. At this scale, all the numbers that fly around the story are...
View ArticleI was tricked into eating meat (and I liked it)
He said, "You should try this," as a plate of mysterious golden morsels landed on the table."But what is it?"He smirked. "Just try it. You'll like it."I reached and grabbed the delicate-looking thing...
View ArticleHow I learned to love being a vegetarian
Over the last week, Salon has featured a series of essays about our complex relationship with eating meat. Some of these pieces were written by meat-eaters who question their choices, and some authored...
View ArticleThe photo making people rethink chicken nuggets
That low groan you've been hearing is the sound of the entire Internet getting nauseated from the photo above, which is flying high on its second or third tour of viral-land. "Folks, this is...
View ArticleSeven tasty ways to stop wasting food
Somewhere, in the back of your mind, you're a little terrified of the peak-oil apocalypse, where man turns on man and we start waging tribal warfare for what little dribs and drabs of fossil fuels we...
View ArticleThe Year in Sanity: Sid Lerner
If you ever want to see a food fight, post something on the Internet suggesting that we should stop or keep eating meat. Vegan warriors will line up on the one side, Ted Nugent marshals his band of...
View ArticleA vow for 2011: No cheap chicken
I was watching TV, and suddenly, to the shrieking strings of horror film music, there was thunder, lightning and breasts everywhere. "What's hiding? What's lurking?" a sinister voice intoned ... "CHEAP...
View ArticleNo cheap chicken: Your thoughts and ideas
It's Day 4 of my resolution to not eat cheap chicken and ... my honor is questionable. Last night, I had dinner at a Japanese noodle shop and had a great bowl of ramen, sniffling-hot with chile oil,...
View ArticleWhen eating organic was totally uncool
To me, the organic food movement has become dizzyingly, surreally chic. Farmers have become rock stars; the most exclusive restaurants name-check them so much you can almost see dirt on the menu. But...
View ArticleThe joys and perils of “sustainable” seafood labeling
Choosing to eat only, say, sustainable chicken may at times be confusing, but whatever obscurity you run into there has nothing on the dank murk of information when it comes to finding seafood fit to...
View ArticleWhat do “free range,”“organic” and other chicken labels really mean?
When I started my messy breakup with cheap chicken, one of the immediate complications I found was, well, how do you define "cheap chicken"? (And, by extension, what is "good" or "sustainable"...
View ArticleIs it racist to ban shark’s fin soup?
My Chinese grandfather was well into the latter part of his life when he made some money. He'd brought his children up on bowls of white rice with soy sauce and maybe a little pat of lard if he was...
View ArticleMy first taste of flesh
By the time my taco arrived, our party of five had settled in around a table by the window. We'd agreed on the tastiness of the chips and salsa, and put away a ceviche or two. We had talked shellfish...
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