Food and Agriculture

Super size, super waste: What whopping portions do to the planet

Did you know that the surface area of the average dinner plate expanded by 36 percent between 1960 and 2007? Here's how growing portion sizes are contributing to our national food waste problem.

Dana Gunders Food and Agriculture

Chinese scientist says cavemen ate pandas

This conclusion required a little bit of a logical leap.

Sarah Laskow Food and Agriculture

Global food prices to spike, reserves to plummet in 2013

That food you're eating right now? You may want put it in a safety deposit box, because global price spikes and plummeting reserves mean some places could go hungry as soon as 2013.

Philip Bump Climate & Energy

Lunchroom justice: Students push for cafeteria workers’ rights

As the good food movement takes root on college campuses, some students are asking: Where do the people who make our food fit in to the picture?

Rachel Cernansky Food and Agriculture

Rooting for root vegetables: The perfect recipes for fall and winter

Here are three hearty recipes from a new cookbook dedicated entirely to root vegetables. Trust us, it's better than it sounds.

Twilight Greenaway Food and Agriculture

Kellogg’s recalls 3 freakin’ million boxes of Mini Wheats

Man, you try to curb food waste, and then some big company gets metal fragments in three million boxes of cereal and has to throw them away.

Jess Zimmerman Food and Agriculture

Oh good, now you can get festive pumpkin pie- and peppermint-flavored Pringles

The world's premier "potato slurry pressed into a saddle shape" company is debuting three festive and extremely nasty holiday flavors.

Jess Zimmerman Food and Agriculture

Growing up, growing food: A teenage farmer to watch

At 16, Sophia Vartanian is planning gardens, connecting young farmers, and getting ready to give a TED talk. What have you done recently?

Darcy Smith Food and Agriculture

Pumpkin crop defies drought, prepares for evisceration

The drought devastated corn and soybean crops, but pumpkins thrive in dry weather. We figure pumpkin prices will peak somewhere around January.