Food

News Hour: An ice cream made out of a traditional pungent cheese has become a surprise hit in a small Czech town, with happy buyers scooping all the innovative producer can make. Tvaruzek, or Tvaruzky in...

News Hour: Bae Su-Hyeon’s lunch of sweet potato soup and funghi pasta has bugs in it. They’re part of the recipe. “It didn’t feel like eating insects,” says Bae, an 18-year-old student having lunch with a...

News Hour: POINT 1: Four Points, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT),  announced that it was celebrating International Beer Day, August 5, at its 200+ locations around the world and continue for...

News Hour: Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd. (“Otsuka Holdings”) announces that its indirectly owned subsidiary Giant Harvest, Ltd. (“GHL”; Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s subsidiary) has completed the transfer of all of GHL’s shares of VV Food &...

News Hour: If the most popular foods of Rio de Janeiro have one thing in common, it is their informality. While you can find fine restaurants in Rio, what sets the city apart and brings its...

News Hour: “Domesticated plants and animals are part of our everyday lives, so much so that we take them for granted,” says Brian Codding, senior author of the study published online August 2 by the British...

News Hour: Across the globe, soils are under threat. Due changing land use to feed a growing population, climate change, and contamination of land with toxic chemicals, this precious resource is deteriorating, posing a serious threat...

News Hour: Rubisco is the central enzyme responsible for photosynthesis in plants, it enables them to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, which they depend upon to live and grow. But until now, the extent of natural...

News Hour: Rice, or Oryza sativa as its scientifically known, feeds more than a third of the globe. Yet the majority of rice crops that supply 90 percent of the world come from just two domesticated...

News Hour: Worldwide, parasitic plants cost billions of dollars in crop losses, but a better understanding of how some plants fend off invaders could help efforts to mitigate these losses. Cuscuta reflexa is a parasitic, leafless...