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Cecilia Chiang poses in her kitchen in 2014. She told NPR that when she first arrived in the U.S., she was shocked by the food most Americans considered to be Chinese.
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Cecilia Chiang, Who Revolutionized American Chinese Food, Dies At 100

Oct 28, 2020
In 1961, Chiang opened San Francisco's The Mandarin, a high-end Chinese restaurant that served authentic fare. Today, her DNA is all over American Chinese food, from P.F. Chang's to Panda Express.
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People load their vehicles with boxes of food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank earlier this month in Los Angeles. Food banks across the United States are seeing numbers and people they have never seen before amid unprecedented unemployment from the CO
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Food Banks Get The Love, But SNAP Does More To Fight Hunger

May 22, 2020
The charitable organizations called food banks are getting a lot of attention and donations right now. But they aren't nearly as important or effective as SNAP, formerly known as food stamps.
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Together Inc. food bank workers distribute food at a drive-through location in Omaha, Neb., last week. Disruptions in the agricultural supply chain caused by the coronavirus pandemic are making it difficult for food banks.
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Food Shortages? Nope, Too Much Food In The Wrong Places

Apr 03, 2020
Some Americans, fearing food shortages from COVID-19, have cleaned out supermarket shelves. Yet there's too much food in some places. Farmers are dumping milk and vegetables that they can't sell.
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Farmworkers pick organic strawberries at Stehly Farms Organics in Valley Center, Calif., on March 25.
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'Essential' Status Means Jobs For Farmworkers, But Greater Virus Risk

Mar 27, 2020
Farmworkers are still working during the coronavirus epidemic. They're essential. But they're also at greater risk of infection.
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Critics had called on the Department of Agriculture to suspend implementation of the new food stamp restrictions, especially in light of the economic crisis spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Judge Blocks Rule That Would Have Kicked 700,000 People Off SNAP

Mar 13, 2020
The rule, which was to take effect April 1, would have tightened work requirements for some food stamp recipients. But a judge said flexibility in food aid is needed amid a pandemic.
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Nutrient-deficient grass could be leading to a decline in the number of grasshoppers, according to a new study.
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Why Taller Grass Can Be Bad News For Grasshoppers

Mar 10, 2020
Grass on the prairie is growing taller because there's now more carbon dioxide in the air. Paradoxically, though, this might be hurting wildlife, because the grass is less nutritious.
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Soybean plants grow in a field near Tiskilwa, Ill.
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An Airbnb For Farmland Hits A Snag, As Farmers Raise Data Privacy Concerns

Feb 24, 2020
The Internet startup Tillable wants to match farmers with farmland available for rent. The problem? Farmers already on that land fear their farm data is being used against them.
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The cold temperatures that pistachio trees need to bloom on time are becoming more scarce as winters get warmer.
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As Warm Winters Mess With Nut Trees' Sex Lives, Farmers Help Them 'Netflix And Chill'

Feb 17, 2020
Many fruit and nut trees need cold weather to bloom, which is becoming less common in a warming climate. So, farmers and scientists are teaming up to find ways to help orchards chill out and cope.
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Methuselah, the first date palm tree grown from ancient seeds, in a photo taken in 2008.
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Dates Like Jesus Ate? Scientists Revive Ancient Trees From 2,000-Year-Old Seeds

Feb 06, 2020
Researchers in Israel have grown date palm trees from ancient seeds found at the same site as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Those trees might soon produce fruit, re-creating the taste of antiquity.
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Chopped and frozen samples of damaged soybean plants are kept in storage at the Office of the Indiana State Chemist. Many contain residues of the herbicide dicamba.
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Pesticide Police, Overwhelmed By Dicamba Complaints, Ask EPA For Help

Feb 06, 2020
Across the Midwest, millions of acres of farmland have been damaged by dicamba, an herbicide that can harm crops not engineered to withstand it. There are so many cases, regulators can't keep up.
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The Modern Mocktail: 3 Distinctive Nonalcoholic Drink Recipes

Jan 31, 2020
How to make three nonalcoholic cocktails that will have your guests asking for another round. Also, learn some basic tenets of what makes a delicious mixed drink (with or without alcohol).
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This chicken from Memphis Meats was produced with cells taken from an animal and grown into meat in a "cultivator." The process is analogous to how yeast is grown in breweries to produce beer.
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Ready For Meat Grown From Animal Cells? A Startup Plans A Pilot Facility

Jan 22, 2020
Memphis Meats, a startup company that has just raised $161 million, says it has a "clear path" to bringing cell-based meats to market. Yet the company and its competitors face challenges.
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A farmer operates a combine to harvest soybeans in Wyanet, Ill. Farmers got more than $22 billion in government payments in 2019. It's the highest level of farm subsidies in 14 years.
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Farmers Got Billions From Taxpayers In 2019, And Hardly Anyone Objected

Dec 31, 2019
Farmers got more than $22 billion in government payments in 2019 — and most of the money came through a program that Congress never approved. It's the highest level of farm subsidies in 14 years.
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Genie Milgrom, pictured in 2013, stands in the entryway of her Miami home wrapped in a long family tree, filled with the names of 22 generations of grandmothers. Raised Catholic, Milgrom traced her family's hidden Jewish roots with the help of a trove of
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Trove Of Recipes Dating Back To Inquisition Reveals A Family's Secret Jewish Roots

Dec 22, 2019
Many Jews were forced to convert during the Inquisition, a history often lost to their descendants. Finding recipes adhering to Jewish food customs helped one woman unearth her family's hidden past.
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A new study suggests that one service already in place in many food deserts could help make it easier to access fresh, healthy food: online grocery delivery. The finding lends support to expanding a <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019
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How Online Grocery Delivery Could Help Alleviate Food Deserts

Dec 19, 2019
Delivery service could make it easier to access fresh, healthy food in these areas, a study finds. It lends support to a pilot program that lets people pay for these groceries with food stamps.
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Chef Tunde Wey uses food as a tool for social justice. His company, BabyZoos, aims to use profits from the sale of applesauce to hospitals to fund ventures that create more economic opportunities for African Americans in an effort to close racial wealth
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Can Applesauce Help Close The Racial Health Gap? No, Wait, Hear This Chef Out

Dec 17, 2019
From infant mortality rates to access to cancer treatment, stark health disparities exist between blacks and whites. One Michigan experiment to address that starts with money made from hospital food.
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A shopper holds fresh produce at Northgate Gonzalez Market before a news conference there, where the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced new data on food insecurity in the county, in September 2017. Food insecurity affected 1 in 3 lo
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OPINION: Obesity Is Linked To Food Insecurity. SNAP Cuts May Make Both Worse

Dec 16, 2019
Over 11% of U.S. households worry about running out of food and rationing what they have. Meanwhile, 2 in 5 adults are obese. Research suggests the links between the two are stronger than we think.
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America's supply of sugar is shrinking because of a poor sugar beet harvest in the northern Midwest. As a result, the U.S. will import more sugar this year than it has in almost 40 years.
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America Will Import More Sugar This Year Than It Has In 4 Decades

Dec 11, 2019
America's supply of sugar is shrinking because of a poor sugar beet harvest in the northern Midwest. As a result, the U.S. will import more sugar this year than it has in almost 40 years.
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The 20-foot-tall bronze sculpture of a boat loaded with refugees and migrants is the work of Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz. Its bread-and-fruit motif encapsulates how food is interlocked with the history of human migration.
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How One Small Bag Of Food On A Giant Sculpture Tells A Million Immigrant Tales

Dec 10, 2019
The theme of the work in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square is welcoming strangers. "The bag is a metaphor for nourishment ... the idea of bringing something to the table," says artist Timothy Schmalz.
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A sweet view along one of the many canals of Venice, which in this case are filled with blue jellybeans.
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Candy Canals: Architects Craft Gingerbread Replica Of Venice

Dec 08, 2019
A competition brought hundreds of architects, designers and engineers together to build a mini version of the Italian city out of Snickers, Mars bars, Jellybeans, cereal, gummy bears and more.
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A new study finds that time-restricted eating helped overweight people who were at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes lose about 3% of their body weight, reduce belly fat and feel more energetic.
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Eat For 10 Hours. Fast For 14. This Daily Habit Prompts Weight Loss, Study Finds

Dec 08, 2019
A new study finds time-restricted eating helped overweight people who were at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes to lose about 3% of their body weight, reduce belly fat and feel more energetic.
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At La Palma Calle Ocho in Miami, the churros are pulled hot from a fryer, placed into brown paper bags and drenched in granulated sugar.
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When Miami Temps Plunge Below 60, It's Time For Hot Churros

Dec 05, 2019
"Chilly" by Miami standards isn't really all that cold. But any sign of sweater weather is enough to get the long lines forming for fried sticks of dough dipped in thick hot chocolate.
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Raiders Of The Lost Crops: Scientists Race Against Time To Save Genetic Diversity

Dec 03, 2019
Elephants, snakes and crocodiles? Researchers around the globe faced risky situations to gather wild relatives of key foods. That genetic pool could be vital to helping crops adapt to climate change.
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Peter Melnik, a fourth-generation dairy farmer, owns Bar-Way Farm, Inc. in Deerfield, Mass. He has an anaerobic digester on his farm that converts food waste into renewable energy.
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Chew On This: Farmers Are Using Food Waste To Make Electricity

Nov 30, 2019
Dairy farmers in Massachusetts are using food waste to create renewable energy. Each farm produces enough to power about 1,500 homes. This helps prevent the release of methane, a greenhouse gas.
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If you don't have a steady source of healthy food, it's hard to manage chronic conditions. That's why health care providers are setting up food pantries — right in hospitals and clinics.
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'Food Pharmacies' In Clinics: When The Diagnosis Is Chronic Hunger

Nov 28, 2019
It's hard to manage chronic conditions without a steady source of healthy food. That's why health care providers are setting up food pantries — right inside hospitals and clinics.
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