A New Story for Maize Domestication

In the end, the meaning of chametz rests on history and tradition, and new traditions are possible.

God’s original instructions for Passover did not include one of the crucial items on the Seder plate.

Ordinarily, evading food rationing in times of war is considered a crime. There are times when it must be accepted as a necessity.

The European Union has failed to implement one of the most effective public health interventions, one that the United Kingdom is now able to contemplate.

Pizza Hut says it invented the stuffed crust pizza. A judge agreed. But Anthony Mongiello has US patent 4,661,361, no matter what the law says.

In many respects the diets of farmers and hunter-gatherers were more alike than different

Commercial baby food was perhaps the original industrial food product, with all that that entails

A lichen, which has no taste of its own, contributes hugely to the flavour of many Indian dishes

A close look at more than 1000 varieties of maize solves a mystery about how the crop evolved from its wild relatives.

Why is honey the world’s third most-adulterated food? Because adulteration delivers profits.