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Books

Nigella Lawson On How To Find Peace While Cooking

5:12pm September 10, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with cookbook writer Nigella Lawson about her latest book Cook, Eat, Repeat and how to stop viewing cooking as tedious and, instead, find peace in the kitchen.

National

The Homegrown Meals In This Prison Stand Out Against Most Unpalatable Jail Food

4:50pm September 10, 2021

by Susan Sharon

At a prison in Maine, residents tend a garden that produces much of the facility's food. Advocates say it's a good way to avoid the unhealthy diets served at other prisons and teach useful skills.

Taco Bell wants customers to collect its sauce packets so they can be turned into other products rather than sent to the landfill.

Environment

Taco Bell Wants Your Old Sauce Packets So They Can Be Recycled

4:27pm September 10, 2021

More than 8 billion of the packets wind up in landfills each year. Now, the fast food chain wants customers to send them in so they can be recycled into other products.

Domino's Pizza Blob Takes On A Life Of Its Own

5:44am September 07, 2021

A Domino's employee in Covington, La., threw dough away before closing for Hurricane Ida. More than a week later, the blob has risen way beyond the dumpster and cooked into the parking lot.

The World's Largest Entertainment McDonald's in Orlando, Fla., was once known for its bizarre exterior. The restaurant has since undergone renovations. It is a planned stop on Max Krieger's tour of strange and unusual McDonald's in Florida.

Music & Culture

One Man's Journey To Document The Strangest McDonald's In The World

4:20pm September 04, 2021

by Savannah Sicurella

Max Krieger celebrates the most uncommon locations of the restaurant that serves as a common bond for most of us. He plans to visit remodeled sites and ones that persist in all their eccentric glory.

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Alexis Nikole Nelson: How Foraging Restored My Relationship With Food

12:30pm September 03, 2021

Forager and TikTok influencer Alexis Nikole Nelson shares how the great outdoors has offered her both an endless array of food options and an outlet to reconnect with her food and her culture.

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Jasmine Crowe speaks at TEDWomen 2019: Bold + Brilliant, D

Jasmine Crowe: What Can We Do To Tackle Food Waste And Hunger?

9:28am September 03, 2021

Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe has one mission: feed more, waste less. Her company Goodr is tackling food waste and getting food to those who need it most.

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Sean Sherman speaks at the TEDxSiouxFalls 2020. Photo courtesy of TED.

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Sean Sherman: What Can We Learn From Indigenous Culinary Traditions?

8:26am September 03, 2021

The loss of Native American food traditions has been taking place for centuries. At Owamni, chef Sean Sherman is trying to change that by serving food that celebrates and preserves Lakota cooking.

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Amanda Little speaks at TED@Dell, October 22, 2020. Photo courtesy of TED.

Amanda Little: What Is The Future Of Our Food?

8:26am September 03, 2021

How should we ethically feed our world? Are we supposed to return to organic pastoral practices or trust new technology? Journalist Amanda Little believes the answer lies in the middle.

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A Canadian Politician Tried To Win Hearts And Minds With Food

6:17am September 03, 2021

Jagmeet Singh wanted to show up to a campaign event with a food truck. But that's when wheels came off the event, literally, because the truck's wheel came off so the event was delayed.