Corn in Mexico used to have hundreds of different colors. The farmers didn’t even have a name for all of the varieties.

In reality, one minute is just enough time to peel an apple. On the Internet, one minute is enough time to watch a video of someone making an apple pie from start to finish.

My mother always said: “If other people can eat it, you can too.” And in full honesty, pig stomach doesn’t look that appetizing at first either.

Germans season with salt and pepper. This seems rather boring at first, unless we’re talking about the best pepper in the world: Kampot pepper from Cambodia.

Is stealing food wrong when you’re hungry? This is one of the oldest questions of moral relativism, which in turn is one of the oldest critiques of the law.

Inspired by the Berlin Airlift of 1948, a group of engineers from Standford University started the Syria Airlift Project in 2015. The mobility of food, it seems, is much higher than the mobility of people.

Adopting western agribusiness practices in India harmed much more than just income. Since 1995 to the current day more than 38,000 farmers have committed suicide due to crop failure and bankruptcy.

Who are these people, Germany’s newcomers? I went to the LaGeSo to find some answers. Since then, I’ve found myself sharing stories and breaking bread in three different newcomer kitchens all over Berlin.

The extremely psychedelic paintings of Hieronymus Bosch reveal a lot about the suffering of the medieval ergotism, which became an important factor for the invention of LSD.

Hypnosis is culturally known as a form of entertainment. Its lesser-known, more serious sister is hypnotherapy and this has much bigger ambitions than making an audience laugh.

Take five and imagine you are an Eskimo. When you look out the window of your wooden house on stilts you see a seemingly endless white landscape, permafrost.

There are many online food websites in every city, but usually one beats the rest and becomes an eponym for the action. In New York, one doesn’t order food out, one gets seamless.

It was all a bit surreal – as every first time should be. Later, an iced coffee with two teaspoons of this white sticky stuff, that I had never before took pleasure in consuming, became my summer addiction.

Essentially, the fact that pork is not allowed in orthodox lives of Muslims and Jews, is clear. However, both the Jewish and the Islamic explanations for why exactly the pig is not allowed are a bit unsatisfying.

At the International Conference on Ayurveda in India people have many questions: Why do people skip meals? Why? Do people over in Europe earn so little?

Crop production and feed conversion efficiency are the keys to understanding water usage in meat production.

Things usually aren’t about fish but about the system. The thought of being able to take the fishes’ side for once was thrilling, libertarian.

Gadgets may sound sexy, but behavioral changes have to come first.

Alchemy. From butter we have made gold. From spreadable fat a medicinal product in the Ayurvedic way. Medicating ghee.

These mineral-shaped edible sculptures by Enea Palmeto are made of solid cocktail liquors.

I love you as much as I love salt, said the Princess. Not knowing better, the king then expelled her.

To some, the idea of sipping a fizzy, fermented drink with bits of yeast straggling at the bottom of the jar just seems downright weird.

As usual, what seems like a new supertrend already has a definite history – a history linked to questions regarding the relationship of art and food, aesthetic and sensual pleasure, exclusivity and the attempt at a convergence of art and life.

With the new app “Food Scores” you can scan your groceries and be informed before getting to the till.

Whenever possible, we avoid fat. Fat makes us fat. And yet, we need fats! Manuela Heider de Jahnsen fills us in.

For decades humans have dreamed of settling other planets. Now that it’s approaching ever more palpably, the focus has turned to the basics, such as how Mars inhabitants are to eat.

There are so many reasons not to drink milk.But viewed from the perspective of holistic medicine, there are also reasons to enjoy it.

This just in from Siemens: A great kitchen is more important than a nice car.

Grain or no grain, quinoa is power-packed.

The wakening truth about some organic chocolate bars.

The world is witnessing a seemingly never-ending cycle of violence. Still, Chef Tomer Niv continues with his everyday life in his Restaurant.

The Solarkiosk was developed for people in rural, off-grid regions. GRAFT has provided us with one kiosk for our Little Wood Project.

Lyss shares some irrefutable truths about what makes a chocolate truly great.

Chocolate is more sensitive than your most moody of friends. She doesn’t like light, humidity or heat.

We all were in a small village in the south of Italy, all asking ourselves one question: How do we want to live?

It is difficult not to become a fan of lupine once you get to know her. But not so many people do. I met her recently in Italy.

The three of us left the cinema in three different, almost dreamlike, states of mind, which made it difficult to speak.

Kara Newman’s book paints the first strokes of a broader portrait of food. It portrays commodities in their most abstract form.