Tag: Food
How steak became manly and salads became feminine
Paul Freedman, Yale University
When was it decided that women prefer some types of food – yogurt with fruit, salads and white wine – while...
Curious Kids: Why does pizza taste so good?
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products
Sheril Kirshenbaum, Michigan State University and Douglas Buhler, Michigan State University
By 2050, many scientists estimate that the world food supply will have to increase...
Government restrictions on labeling products as ‘meat’ aren’t likely to help...
Trey Malone, Michigan State University and Brandon McFadden, University of Delaware
Substitutes for traditional meat products have captured the attention of investors, the media and...
5 charts show how your household drives up global greenhouse gas...
Morteza Taiebat, University of Michigan and Ming Xu, University of Michigan
As the public conversation about climate change gets increasingly serious, many Americans may be...
‘I’ll have what she’s having’ – how and why we copy...
Kelly L. Haws, Vanderbilt University; Brent McFerran, Simon Fraser University, and Peggy Liu, University of Pittsburgh
Imagine you’re dining out at a casual restaurant with...
Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies
Deepak Ray, University of Minnesota
Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns,...
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University
These are difficult times in farm country....
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Frequent flying is getting a lot more rewarding – for those...
By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and Volodymyr Bilotkach, Newcastle University
Frequent flyer programs are one of the primary ways airlines build customer loyalty....
