Here's a question to ponder: when considering the long history of food and the many ways we now cultivate, cook, and control it, what are the top innovations that come to mind? An eminent group of Fellows from the UK's Royal Society recently named the Top 20 most significant inventions in food and drink. Can you guess what they are? More

Looking for fresh eggs raised by your neighbors? Or perhaps you have a backyard flock of your own and would like to share, barter, or sell your eggs? Enter Eggzy, the virtual egg stand. More

Cotton candy: Usually finding this sweet treat means you're at an amusement park. Have you ever seen a cotton candy machine? They're rather large, impractical contraptions, and tend to fill air in the room with bits of cotton candy. But what to do if you want to make some at home? Check out this cool DIY solution - at $45, why not? Well, that is, if you have a drill press. Still, fun to watch! More

Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used on animals to make them grow faster and to prevent disease in the crowded, unsanitary conditions of factory farms. With rising concerns about "superbugs," or bacteria resistant to antibiotics, many of us are looking for meat raised without antibiotics. More

Looking to master the art of French cooking... in the digital age? Now you can! In celebration of Julia Child's upcoming 100th Birthday on August 15, 2012, Knopf just released the first Julia Child app with select recipes from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, rare video clips, photographs, and more!
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What is espresso and how did it ever come about? These questions are at the heart of Smithsonian Magazine's recent dive into the history of the espresso machine, which is a fascinating read for any coffee lover. More

These days a smartphone is just as likely to be by our side in the kitchen as a cookbook. We use it for finding recipes, creating shopping lists, pinning inspiring dishes, and sharing what we cook with others. Thus, as a Windows Phone user, I was curious to attend a recent Cooking with Windows Phone event where I got to test drive some cooking apps under the guidance of Chef John Sundstrom of Lark in Seattle. More

Allow us to introduce you to a new ingredient messing with your dinner: Transglutaminase is an enzyme made by the fermentation of bacteria, and it enables industrial meat producers and purveyors to take cheap chunks of beef, "glue" them together, and create what looks like a pricey cut of meat. Unfortunately, this meat mishmash is not uncommon in the food service industry. More

Q: I would like to find a good inventory system for my pantry. Perhaps something I can hook into my home computer and allows me to keep an inventory of my food items by bar code scanning. It would be nice to generate a shopping list for my smartphone.

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There are a few techniques for getting the last few drops out of the ketchup bottle — storing the bottle upside-down, repeatedly hitting the "57" on the Heinz bottle logo — but none works as impressively as LiquiGlide, a new food-safe, slippery coating developed by a team of scientists at MIT. When it's used on the inside of a condiment bottle, ketchup and mayonnaise magically slide out, as you can see in the video demo below. More