Deena Shanker

It’s a fact: New York has the world’s best bagels.

Few foods inspire such visceral debate as foie gras, the fatty duck or goose liver that’s prized by foodies but hated by animal advocates because it’s often produced by force-feeding the birds until their livers become enlarged.

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If you’ve never been to the legendary FAO Schwarz store in Manhattan, now is the time. Rising rents are forcing the toy store to close in July.

This will be a tough year for farmers—especially for those running mid-size farms.

Italy’s olive grove disease may be a blessing for Greece.

Craft beer has given a lot to California, but it has also taken away.

In September 2002, McDonald’s was hurting. Same-store sales in the US were down, its stock was sinking, and critiques of its business, including Eric Schlosser’s 2001 exposé, Fast Food Nation, had sullied its once shiny brand.

If a food makes a significant portion of the population physically ill, should a country keep producing it?

If you haven’t been paying attention to the pet supplies aisle in your local food market, you may have missed the appearance there of gluten-free pet food. But don’t worry, after a blockbuster entrance, it looks like the growth in US sales may already have peaked.

Good news from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization today: High inventories of foods, including wheat, meat, and sugar, plus a strong US dollar, are expected to drive down food prices around the world in the coming year.

If there’s one place in the world where you don’t have to worry about a beer shortage, it’s probably Panama.

Wondering what to make for dinner tonight? Chances are, you’ll turn to the internet, not a cookbook.

It was only a matter of time.

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Every five years since 1980, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issue dietary guidelines they call “authoritative [diet] advice for Americans.”  The unveiling of the final guidelines follows a report from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) and a comment period for the public to weigh in on the findings.

The latest fast-food company to try to meet evolving consumer preferences is Wendy’s, the international burger chain known for its iconic square burgers. It is (finally!) testing out a vegetarian black bean burger in some Ohio restaurants, Columbus Biz Insider reports.

Panera Bread, the American soup and sandwich chain that helped pioneer the country’s migration to fresher, healthier-seeming fast food, wants to be a little fresher.

If you’ve been reading recent headlines, you’d be forgiven for thinking that McDonald’s was on its last dollar. Sales are falling, employees are protesting, and the restaurant’s recently revealed turnaround plan sent shares down instead of up.

Good news for supermarkets: Despite the boom in online grocery shopping options (try, e.g., AmazonFresh, Instacart, FreshDirect, Nature’s Basket, Epermarket), brick-and-mortar stores are not going to disappear.

Back in the days of yore, before craft beer wars and Chinese wine conglomerates, there was mead.

If you watched the frenetic methamphetamine-fueled US cable drama Breaking Bad, the chicken joint known as Los Pollos Hermanos will ring a bell.

The fight over whether MillerCoors can call Blue Moon a “craft beer” is headed for the courts.

When a US district court judge in Vermont ruled against powerful food industry groups on Monday, allowing the state’s plans to require food labeling for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to move forward, it felt like a victory to the many groups advocating for US consumers’ right to know what goes into their food.