Food

PHOTOS: How Families Eat In The Arctic: From An $18 Box Of Cookies To Polar Bear Stew

In the Canadian Arctic, food that's shipped in can be costly. People still hunt as their ancestors did — for seal, polar bear, narwhal.

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Like Your Hummus Wet? Then You Want Dry Garbs. So Do Northwest Farmers

Outside Palouse, Washington, it’s mid-autumn and Chad Redman’s combine tractor keeps jamming with rocks it picks up in the field. Chad and his father, Jim, tug and ratchet at the combine. But nothing dislodges these rocks from the cutting header. “So we’ll have to go back to the pickup,” Jim Redman grumbles.

'Badass': The One Word That Has Become A Lightning Rod For Many Female Chefs

In her new book, Charlotte Druckman asks over 100 female chefs and food writers if there are any words or phrases they wish people would stop using to describe them. One word was a bit of a surprise.

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Take a fresh look at frozen seafood and prepare to be surprised

If you ask American consumers whether fresh seafood or previously frozen tastes better, you are bound to get "fresh" as the answer. But blind taste tests conducted by Oregon State University found that fish caught and quickly frozen at sea rated as good or better than supposedly "fresh" fish bought at the supermarket.

Not So Sweet: Nestlé Issues Recall Due To Possible Rubber In Cookie Dough

Nestlé USA listed 26 products that may have "food-grade rubber pieces" in it. They include "ready-to-bake refrigerated Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough bars, tubs and tube-shaped 'chubs.' "