Tag: Food & Drink

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For more than 850 years, the Sudo family has been making sake in Obara, Japan. Their sake distillery is the oldest in the country. ...

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Before the FDA came around, there was some pretty gnarly stuff in our food: additives like formaldehyde, borax, and copper sulfate—...

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To eat fugu is to put your life on the line. That’s why Japanese chefs must train for years before serving the notoriously poi...

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In 1950, a group of U.S. Marines fighting in North Korea got stranded without enough ammunition. They managed to get to safety, but...

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Lobster was once served to prisoners and thought of as a poor man’s food fit only for the indigent, indentured and incarcerated. The...

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Gomberg Seltzer Works is the last seltzer company in New York City. It’s been around since 1953, fills up 3,000 bottles and ha...

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She’s been threatened with voodoo and death threats, but U.S. customs supervisor Ellie Scaffa doesn’t let that stop her....

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Researcher Charles Spence has documented all of the ways in which sound impacts the way things taste. For example, salty food tastes...

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There’s a surging demand for whiskey in the world, and Tom Lix has found a way to age it in just 24 hours. Traditionally it takes ye...

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In 1853, George Crum was a chef at the Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, Ny. One day, a customer ordered fried potatoes. Upon b...