Considering the Sweet Potato
The sweet potato is a New World food that spread around the world, including across the Pacific before the Europeans got there.
Will Spicy Foods Preserve You?
Spicy foods may prolong life; they certainly act as food preservatives.
What Soldiers Ate During World War I
By World War I, writes Murlin, emerging nutritional science was becoming a priority in the Army.
A Plan to Get the Poor to Eat Healthy Food—in the 1890s
Early efforts to get Americans to eat healthy food started with targeting poor citizens.
GMOs, Inequality and World Hunger
In a 2008 paper for the British Journal of Criminology, Reese Walters looked at GMO crops from an entirely different perspective.
The Surprisingly Long History of School Lunch as Teaching Tool
Research behind the history of school lunch.