There’s a video making the rounds on the internet that will haunt your dreams. On mute, it looks like a typical clip of breakfast sausages frying away. Turn the volume up, and ear-piercing screams of tortured pig souls call out from the great beyond. My breakfast links never seem to cook up quite so horrifically, but…

Yesterday, the U.S. Department Of Agriculture gave a preliminary go-ahead to an edible cotton product, paving the way for farmers to grow cotton as not just a textile but a food. Before you, like me, get too fixated on the fascinating image of popping cotton poofs into your mouth like, well, cotton candy, that’s not…

I ask this with all sincerity: In their decade or so in mainstream existence, how have drones improved our lives? No, 16-year-old Michael Bay wannabes filming overhead sweeping shots of their neighborhood doesn’t count.

It’s been a crazy news week, but let’s not let history-shattering cheese news slip past us amidst all this madness. Scientists now say they’ve discovered evidence human beings have been eating cheese 4,000 years longer than originally believed.

Back in June, we checked in on some of the distilleries and bars experimenting with sound-aged or pressure-aged whiskey. To that, Endless West would like to say, “Pffft.” (We are not saying pfft, Cleveland Whiskey is good stuff.)

Science! Smithsonian reports that archaeologists have found the oldest direct evidence of beer in some ancient clay cups. This discovery is courtesy of a new technique that can tell the difference between compounds in sunscreen and wine—a difficult challenge, apparently. Now those same scientists are trying to brew a…

Today, the New York Post directs our attention to a study commissioned by Jordan Winery, which found that Americans, on average, fall in love with wine at around age 29. Presumably that’s at least in part because Americans, on average, start feeling like we’re too damn old to throw back tequila shots and too damn…

When I lived in Phoenix where summer temperatures reached 120º Fahrenheit, in between praying for swift death I would often wonder about the cliché frying-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk bit. Could you really fry an egg on pavement? Testing it would require leaving my air-conditioned cave, so I never did it, but it sure felt…

Earlier this year, we wrote about two Aldi spirits—Highland Black Scotch Whisky and Glen Marnoch Islay Single Malt—that swiped awards at an international spirits competition. In that piece, we also bemoaned the fact that we, humble U.S.-based writers that we are, cannot enjoy said spirits, because Aldi doesn’t sell…

Science! It’s one of the best things about being alive, and when the worlds of science and food collide, it means I get use use an exclamation point with complete sincerity. Today’s nugget of emphatic exuberance comes courtesy of Popular Science—more specifically, a piece on the Chinese Northern Tree Shrew and its hot…

Science! It inspires wonder! It solves mysteries, and creates new ones! It is world-changing, mind-blowing, earth-is-definitely-round-proving stuff! And today, it has made plain what mouths have known for centuries: pizza just tastes really damn good when it comes out of a wood-fired brick oven.

There’s a part of my brain that wanted to go all “Eat The Rich” on this story, but screw it, this is just too cool to harrumph. Cheers to Wine Spectator for bringing our attention to the work of champagne house G. H. Mumm, which has, with the help of design agency Spade, created the Mumm Grand Cordon Stellar. It’s…

The Stanford marshmallow test is a psychological experiment that goes back to the ’60s. As The Atlantic described it earlier this month:

We’ve heard numerous times that eating mindfully can help us enjoy our food more and potentially curtail overeating. Of course that sounds great in theory, but when I have six minutes before I need to be out the door, and the dog still needs to be let out, and my phone’s beeping at me, mindful eating gets tossed in…

You know how people say “did you take this with a potato?” (I didn’t, but apparently they do.) Well, the people at Corridor Team, a production company, are apparently super committed to that particular phrase, because they set about finding a way to answer that question with “yes, I did in fact take that with a…

It’s possible to make whiskey taste as though it’s been aged for years without actually aging it for years, and it does not require possession of a TARDIS.

You should eat cake for breakfast, according to science. The level of insulin in the body fluctuates throughout the day, but is typically highest in the morning. That means any sugary stuffed housed in the early hours is more likely to be converted into fuel, rather than stored as fat, which is what happens when…

Hangar 1 Vodka makes a vodka called Fog Point. It is made from fog water.

What didn’t I learn? Reading through a National Geographic piece about a bald eagle snatching up a fox who himself was snatching up a rabbit, I learned that bald eagles are kleptoparasites, which means they steal food or prey from other animals. This makes the mighty bald eagle an animal kingdom equivalent to your one…

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