Food

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio checks tomato plants growing inside the International Space Station for a space botany study.

Science

Houston, we have a tomato: ISS astronauts locate missing fruit (or vegetable)

6:05am December 10, 2023

by Erika Ryan

A missing tomato sparked a lighthearted mystery for the astronauts on board the International Space Station — and it's finally been solved after months of accusations and intrigue.

Chuck E. Cheese, the frontman for the animatronic Munch's Make Believe Band at the Chuck E. Cheese location in Northridge, Calif. This animatronic band is the last remaining one in the United States as locations remodel in favor of screens and interactive dance floors.

Kids are losing the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics. They were for the parents, anyway

7:01am December 09, 2023

by Emma Bowman

The kids "eatertainment" chain is saying goodbye to its animatronics band. But not all are ready to let go of the fuzzy robot characters of their youth. One stronghold will keep the nostalgia alive.

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A young bison calf with its herd at Bull Hollow, Okla., on Sept. 27, 2022. American bison, or buffalo, have bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the 1800s. Many tribes are participating in their restoration.

With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty

7:00am December 09, 2023

by Jim Robbins

Native Americans are returning to raising buffalo and plants that tribes have grown for millennia. It's a way to reconnect with historic traditions, and to bring healthy eating to their communities.

How corn masa could help lower birth defect risks among Hispanic people

4:55pm December 08, 2023

by Bonnie Petrie

The CDC is urging manufacturers of a type of flour used to make foods like tortillas and tamales to add folic acid to help lower the risk of some birth defects in the Hispanic population.

CosMc's offers a large variety of drinks — and no hamburgers. The first store testing the new McDonald's concept is opening in Bolingbrook, Ill., near Chicago.

CosMc's lands in Illinois, as McDonald's tests its new coffee-centered concept

2:59pm December 07, 2023

by Bill Chappell

The beverage-first McDonald's spinoff, named for a six-handed extraterrestrial, seems to be a grab at markets currently served by the likes of Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts.

Rose Previte's stuffed summer squash with lamb and rice, from her new cookbook, Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond.

Books
Arts

Rose Previte, of D.C.'s Michelin star restaurant Maydān, releases her debut cookbook

1:54pm December 05, 2023

The word maydan means a gathering place. And that's what Rose Previte wants her debut cookbook, Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond, to be: a way for people to come together around table.

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Avoid cantaloupe unless you know its origins, CDC warns amid salmonella outbreak

2:19pm December 01, 2023

by Emily Olson

At least 117 people in 34 states have gotten sick from salmonella infections. U.S. health officials believe two brands of cantaloupe — and dozens of fruit cups and medleys — may have been the cause.

In Wisconsin, a lot of training goes into being a cheese tester

8:24am November 26, 2023

by Maayan Silver

250 people applied for five open jobs, hoping to be chosen to help cheesemakers create a creamier cheddar or more melty mozzarella. (This story first aired on Morning Edition on November 22, 2023.)

Get creative with thanksgiving leftovers

5:24pm November 25, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Bon Appetit food editor Rachel Gurjar about creative ways to use up your leftover Thanksgiving ingredients.

The FDA and the CDC are warning consumers not to eat certain whole and cut cantaloupes and pre-cut fruit products linked to a salmonella outbreak.

FDA investigates growing salmonella outbreak linked to recalled cantaloupe

7:36pm November 24, 2023

by Emma Bowman

At least 45 people were hospitalized with salmonella poisoning linked to recalled whole and pre-cut fruit. The illnesses occurred in a majority of U.S. states and in Canada.