Reading Round Up: BPA edition

Study: Hand Sanitizers, French Fries Don’t Mix Well With BPA-Coated Receipts

Waste-free, Willy Wonka packaging is coming but are consumers ready for it?

Buzz Feed: The Science Of The Munchies

Ebola Has Created a Full-Fledged Food Crisis in Liberia

More Cities Are Making It Illegal To Hand Out Food To The Homeless

Reading Round Up: Soda Edition

Drinking a "Medium" Soda Every Day Can Age You as Much as Smoking Does

High Rates of Suicide, Depression Linked to Farmers' Use of Pesticides

Forget Tofurkey. Here’s a New Batch of Meat Alternatives

Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolution

Startup's New Sprays Promise Longer-Lasting Fruit, Fewer Pesticides

Reading Round Up: Plant Blood Edition

Urban Ag Grows Up: World’s Largest Rooftop Farm In Chicago

10 Reasons Why Teff is the New Quinoa

Is the Secret to Sustaining a Vegetarian Diet Eating Plant…Blood?

Potato as Birth Control: Never a Good Idea

This killer app will change the way we eat forever

Reading Round Up: Pirate Joe's Edition

GMOs Are Old Hat. Synthetically Modified Food Is The New Frontier

California Farmer Grows Frankenstein-Shaped Pumpkins for Halloween

The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada

Making peanuts safe for allergy sufferers

Ebola Might Leave Survivors Food-Strapped in Liberia

Reading Round Up: Pizza Cake Recipe Edition

Simple recipe for pizza cake

Noah’s Ark for Fruits, Nuts and Grapes

In China, The Modern Shopping Mall Is Topped With An Urban Farm, Not With Cars

The Struggle to Produce Food in Syria

Chefs to Create Burger Designed to Taste Like Human Flesh

Reading Round Up: Captain Citrus Edition

Could Yelp and Twitter Become Tools to Detect Foodborne Outbreaks?

Aquaponic Garden gives new life to an aquarium

Marvel's New Hero Wants To Save The World — And The Citrus Industry

Is This World of Warcraft for the Agricultural Set?

Crops Grow On Fake Moon And Mars Soil

Reading Round Up: Chocolate Teapot Edition

Long-Awaited New Series ‘Food Forward’ Makes Its Debut on PBS

Cereals Begin to Lose Their Snap, Crackle and Pop

Teapot Made Entirely from Chocolate Can Hold Boiled Water without Melting

Fungus Could Be the Key to Avoiding a Global Food Crisis

Can You Trust The ‘Natural’ Label? No, you can't. It's just a marketing term. Always read the ingredient label!

Reading Round Up: Food Gap Edition

The United Nations warns of food shortages as Ebola tightens borders

This Innovative Gardening Site Can Teach a Novice to Grow Anything

Tater Tetris

The Food Gap Is Widening

The Mother Orchard Project: A Gold Rush of Heirloom Fruit

Reading Round Up: Bicycle Churned Artisanal Ice Cream Edition

How to eat sushi

A gut microbe that stops food allergies

Finally, a ‘Kickstarter’ for Sustainable Food Projects

New App Could Tackle Hunger, Will Help You Find a Good Deal

Customers can pedal for a scoop at this bicycle-churned artisanal ice cream parlor. This sounds like a great opening to a Portlandia skit

Reading Round Up: Chocolate LEGOs Edition

The Infamous Rainbow Grapes – Are They Real?

Edible Chocolate LEGOs by Akihiro Mizuuchi

Special Sauce for Measuring Food Trends: The Fried Calamari Index

Ben & Jerry’s makes ice cream-powered ice cream; world peace next

A Bacon-Powered Motorcycle Is Cruising Your Way

Reading Round Up: Sexy Butts Edition

What Makes Us Fat: Is It Eating Too Much Or Moving Too Little?

The Tree That Bears 40 Types of Fruits

Move Over, Kale, The New Super Vegetable Comes From The Sea

The Truffle Oil Shuffle

Peaches Sold as Sexy Butts in China

Reading Round Up: Xameleon Edition

A San Francisco Startup Has Plans To Blow Up The Egg Industry

Some Food Companies Are Quietly Dumping GMO Ingredients

Two Chelsea Restaurants Grow Fruits and Veggies on a Rooftop Aeroponic Garden

The Soylent Subculture: 10 People Tell Us What It's Like Living on Powdered Food

Physicist-Turned-Cook Invents Ice Cream That Changes Color as It Melts

Reading Round Up: Gummy Bear Bratwurst Edition

From Bushwick to the South Bronx, 15 Urban Farms in NYC

The New Face of Hunger

How to make a cake in 60 seconds

Yes, Cheetos, Funnel Cake, and Domino's Are Approved School Lunch Items

Minnesota Meat Shop Makes Gummy-Bear Bratwursts

Reading Round Up: Potato Salad Kickstarter Edition

"Super Bananas" Enter U.S. Market Trials

This Pocket-Sized Sensor Will Tell You When Fruit Is Ripe

The Potato Salad Kickstarter Guy Isn't in This for the Money

Move over potato chips, it's time for cricket Chirps

Diet during Pregnancy Linked to Diabetes in Grandchildren

Reading Round Up: Cannibalism Edition

Would Cannibalism Make You Fat?

Inside Job: A New Chip Tells Farmers When to Water

How We Can Tame Overlooked Wild Plants to Feed the World

Food safety: Take matters into your own hands

Penguin device checks your food for antibiotic residue

Reading Round Up: Latin Edition

The Abstinence Method: Dutch farmers just say no to antibiotics for livestock.

How we can fight back against herbicide-resistant superweeds

No more Latin: Botany rebooted for the 21st century

Free cookbook teaches you how to eat well on $4 a day

New Impossibly Tiny Landscapes Painted on Food by Hasan Kale

Reading Round Up: Edible Mist Edition

Hypoallergenic Peanuts Move Closer to Commercial Reality

Children and Pregnant Women Should Eat More Fish

Top 10 Tomato-Growing Myths

Edible Mist Machine offers a guilt-free flavor hit

Bees can be more important than fertilizer

Reading Round Up: Ice Diet Edition

The Ice Diet

The psychology of Soylent and the prison of first-world food choices

Just How Much Dye Is in Your Food?

The History of the Ramen Noodle

Are They Nuts?

Reading Round Up: Banana Edition

Cricket Chips: Will Bug Snacks Become the New Normal?

Has The End Of The Banana Arrived?

80% of Meat Labels Could Be Meaningless, Exclusive Report Says

8 Cereals With More Sugar Than a Chocolate Chip Cookie

Inside An Old Chicago Packing Plant, Inspiring Proof That Urban Indoor Farming Can Succeed

Reading Round Up: Swan Edition

The End of Food

Why Don’t We Eat Swans Anymore?

How We Get Tall

'Rice theory' explains north-south China cultural differences

Eaters Assume Crunchy Foods Have Fewer Calories