Starting a short season of bits and pieces that didn’t quite fit in the year’s episodes with a look at the Great Epping Sausage Scandal.
Bad diet is now the number one risk factor for disease. Is the world going to tackle the problem?
If you going to breed vegetables for flavour — perish the thought — you need someone to help you decide what’s good. Enter the Culinary Breeding Network.
Foie gras offers a fascinating insight into the role of politics in food — which happens to be the subtitle of a new book by Michaela DeSoucey, a sociologist who got caught up in foie gras just before the topic exploded all over the food scene in Chicago.
A new technique for asking how one taste affects another confirms a recent change of opinion. White wine is often a better choice than red to accompany cheese.