Eight years ago, when I first started to pitch publishers on the idea of a cookbook about fish in cans, the response was a resounding, diplomatically phrased iteration of ‘Ew.’ … One ...

Even before Donald Trump retook the White House, US policymakers had created a paradox of plenty in the nation’s agricultural system: environmentally destructive overproduction of a few major ...

By Theodore Ross We released the newest episode of Forked, our podcast on food politics and policy, earlier this week. It tries to reckon with what the One Big Beautiful Act — heretofore known as ...

Rising temperatures in the Mediterranean ha[ve] rendered olive oil scarcer than it had been in recent memory,” writes Lauren Markham, and as prices have risen, so have thefts. “Thieves have ...

Greece’s olive oil crisis is bad enough to tempt thieves Olives were a low-stress crop for millennia, but Greece shows how climate change has made the harvest much less predictable—and growing regions ...

Louisiana’s coastline is a river delta, formed by the Mississippi over millennia as its current slowed and relinquished its mud into a calm and sheltered gulf. In the back-and-forth contest between… ...

On a mid-August Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz… ...

‘Customers are being duped’ How murky grocery sales tactics are squeezing some Kroger shoppers ...

In one of the nation's chicken-producing hubs, immigrant workers say their employers offer Band-Aids, ice, and ibuprofen for injuries that are often life-altering Alex Paul, a Haitian immigrant and ...

Teaching mental health professionals to think like a farmer An innovative new therapy uses farmers’ own land to reduce the risk of suicide ...

Theodore Ross: Welcome to Forked, an insider’s look at the politics and policy that is turning the American food system on its head. I’m Theodore Ross, the Editor-in-Chief of the Food and Environment ...