Food

You’ve probably put a few dozen pickles slices atop your lunch meat on sandwiches throughout your lifetime. But did you know there was a time in America’s history when people ate sandwiches that contained just … pickles? Yes, that’s right, pickle sandwiches, with nothing else except for maybe a little butter. It’s true and that’s...

While some berries aren’t edible, there are plenty that taste delicious, and they’re all pretty when we pass them on some lush bush or branch. But what do we really know about the life cycle of a berry? Unless we went into botany, probably not much, but a man named Alfie Daye is changing that,...

Here’s the thing. If you’ve always had jarred spaghetti sauce, there’s a good chance you think it’s pretty darn good. I grew up thinking all sauce came from a jar – both of my parents worked, so no one was simmering homemade spaghetti sauce for hours between getting home and putting kids in the bath,...

One of the hardest realizations of most of our adults lives is realizing that we have to feed ourselves (and our kids) three meals a day, every day, for the rest of our lives. It inevitably leads to more than one night a week when you’re tired of everything you make, you don’t feel like...

Everyone has their own style, and that goes double when it comes to people who create. Whether you’re a writer, an actor, an artist, or sure, a chef, you surely have that color or phrasing or ingredient that makes your end product pop. But what if there was a simple ingredient you could keep in...

It can be a bit fatiguing, to learn about everything we do and use on a daily basis that harms the environment. It’s a lot – sometimes it can seem like there’s nothing we can keep if we want to be responsible global citizens. There are plenty of alternatives, though, and some problems are too...

Picture this: Instead of pulling out a slice of bread from a loaf in a plastic bag, you pull your bread out of a can, then cut it yourself. Wait…. what?!? Yeah… it’s a thing and it has been a thing for a minute… This was the reality starting in the late 1920s, especially in...

Summer is the time for backyard barbecues and beach days with friends. And according to Pepsi, it’s also the perfect time for a refreshing new soda flavor: Pineapple. The company is now making its classic soft drink with “a splash of pineapple juice,” according to the product’s box. People in Japan have already been drinking...