food

Prices for Oreo cookies and other snacks made by Mondelēz International will be going up next year because of higher transportation costs and other factors affecting the supply chain, the company says.

Economy

Oreos, Sour Patch Kids and other snacks will soon get more expensive

2:23pm November 04, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

Companies from Mondelēz to McDonald's are raising prices to offset higher costs for transportation and because of labor and other problems along the supply chain.

Delicious Day of the Dead offerings

5:00pm October 31, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Mariana Nuno-Ruiz McEnroe, author of Dining with the Dead: A Feast for the Souls on Day of the Dead, about what to cook in celebration of Dia de los Muertos.

A slice of tiramisu at the restaurant Le Beccherie on August 24, 2013 in Treviso, Italy.

Ado Campeol, the man known as the 'father of tiramisu,' has died

1:54pm October 31, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

Although his restaurant has been credited as the birthplace of the popular Italian dessert, it was actually Campeol's wife and one of Le Beccherie's chefs that apparently invented it.

In recent years, New York-based attorney Spencer Sheehan has filed more than 400 lawsuits targeting products in almost every aisle of the grocery store over what he says are misleading claims on advertising and packaging.

National

The strawberry Pop-Tart case is just one of more than 400 lawsuits he has filed

12:32pm October 30, 2021

by Becky Sullivan

Attorney Spencer Sheehan has sued over not enough strawberries, little or no actual vanilla and how much lime constitutes "a hint of lime" in chips. Companies often pay to make these lawsuits go away.

National

Kickapoo chef honors her heritage with Oakland's first Indigenous restaurant

5:06pm October 27, 2021

Oakland, Calif., is getting its first Indigenous restaurant in November, which will serve items like bison blueberry sausage and venison meatballs.

Pumpkins stacked up at Tulleys farm in Crawley, England, on Friday. The U.S. celebrates National Pumpkin Day every Oct. 26.

Science

Here's why the smell of pumpkin spice moves us, according to science

11:47am October 26, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

The appeal of pumpkin spice has a lot to do with how we associate smells and flavors with fall — despite the fact that the flavoring doesn't contain any actual pumpkin.

There's unexpected bipartisan cooperation brewing on Capitol Hill... Over beer

4:56pm October 21, 2021

by Barbara Sprunt

There's bipartisan cooperation on Capitol Hill over beer. Five Congressional teams are in a competition where lawmakers work with breweries in their home states to create a new craft beer.

The breakout star of this Halloween season is a themed bratwurst

5:43am October 19, 2021

The SpookToberfest brat is a hot item. The featured ingredients are pork, beer and candy corn. You can pick up the treat at Jenifer Street Market in Madison, Wis.

California's farmers are pumping billions of tons of extra water from underground aquifers this year, because of the drought. But new restrictions on such pumping are coming into force.

Satellites reveal the secrets of water-guzzling farms in California

3:40pm October 18, 2021

by Dan Charles

California wants to limit the water that farmers can pump from depleted aquifers. To enforce those limits, regulators are turning to remote sensing satellites.

A squash grown by an Ohio husband-and-wife team captures world record

6:00am October 18, 2021

Donna and Todd Skinner grew a squash that stands about chest-high. It weighs 2,164 pounds. That's more than a ton — the same as an old Volkswagen Beetle or the Liberty Bell.