An interview with author Matthew Gavin Frank on the drawbacks of everyone's favorite food-centered holiday.

Bee Wilson's “First Bite” explores the roots of our disordered twenty-first century eating habits.

How Coca-Cola's feel-good message silences its critics

The economics of manipulation; or, why there's so much candy at the checkout counter.

A new wave of food bloggers optimize our favorite recipes

Jared Fogle's victims will split $1.4 million. That's more than most victims get—and not nearly enough.

The farm-by-farm fight between China and the United States to dominate the global food supply

Why we're all eating high-energy foods made for soldiers

There's nothing wrong with that. But leaving a mess? How rude.

Now that "natural" living has gone mainstream, its days are numbered