Health Feb 03 New federal rules would limit sugar in school meals for the 1st time By JoNel Aleccia, Associated Press
Health Jan 31 FDA announces overhaul of food program to protect consumers and food supply FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf is vowing to better protect consumers and the U.S. food supply. By JoNel Aleccia, Associated Press
Science Dec 10 The fight to reduce food waste is getting a boost from science Restaurants, grocers, farmers and food companies are increasingly turning to chemistry and physics to tackle the problem of food waste. By Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press
Science Nov 26 Watch 6:10 Food waste is contributing to climate change. What’s being done about it? Discarded food is responsible for as much as 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Rhode Island PBS Weekly's Isabella Jibilian reports on why so much food is going to waste and what some…
Nation May 24 Watch 8:17 Black and Creole people defined New Orleans cuisine, but Black chefs don’t get top jobs New Orleans is a unique city where its people are part of a rich melting pot of diversity that has made its food world-famous. But many of the culture bearers of that history are being shut out of the top… By Roby Chavez, Diane Lincoln Estes
May 11 WATCH: Biden sees bigger role for U.S. farms to ease food prices amid Ukraine war By News Desk and Associated Press President Joe Biden is vowing to help American farmers try to ease a global spike in food prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading
Jan 20 Food aid in Ethiopia’s Tigray now at ‘all-time lowest’, U.N. reports By Associated Press The United Nations says food distribution in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region has reached its “all-time lowest” while more than 50,000 children are thought to be severely malnourished, the latest sign of growing crisis amid efforts to end the country’s 14-month… Continue reading
Dec 24 The misunderstood fruitcake has a magnificent shelf life — and history By Jeffrey Miller, The Conversation To the Romans, it was the original energy bar. Continue reading
Nov 29 How rising prices affect people differently, and what it says about the economy By Chloe Jones Inflation rates, especially for food prices, have spiked quickly and are being felt hardest by those earning lower wages. These price increases have led many people to believe the economy is in a bad place, but experts say the opposite. Continue reading
Jun 28 Watch 7:47 ‘High on the Hog’ aims to eliminate the erasure of Black contributions to American cuisine By Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Maea Lenei Buhre "High on the Hog" tells the sweeping history of African-American food — first as a book and now in a highly acclaimed four-part series on Netflix. Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talked with some of the show’s creative team about why… Continue watching