Food Bank News • May 19, 2023

Boosting Farmworker Wages to Cut the Food Line

It’s widely acknowledged in the hunger relief community that the people who grow the nation’s food also tend to be among the most food-insecure.

Popular Mechanics • May 5, 2023

Scientists Say Water Can Change Whiskey Flavor For the Better, But Don’t Dilute It Past This Point

Neat, or on the rocks? Or maybe just a touch of water?

Popular Mechanics • April 28, 2023

This Quiz Measures Your Level of Food Disgust. Learn the Science

Social media has been buzzing with commentary after a popular test began circulating online that purports to measure food disgust. Disgust is a very large but not well-explored area of study, from human evolution to cultural familiarity and all points in between.

itch.io • February 1, 2023

No Substitutions: A Browser Game About Cooking

This is a word substitution game made for Gaming Like It's 1927. Explore eight real passages from a "domestic science" book, then swap out words found elsewhere in the book.

Stacker • December 8, 2022

From smart kitchens to robocooks: 10 tech innovations transforming restaurants

What must it have been like to run a restaurant before the invention of electricity and air conditioning?

Popular Mechanics • November 8, 2022

A Billion Crabs Have Gone Missing

In October, news broke that scientists were estimating the “disappearance” of up to one billion wild crabs from the usually steady supply in the Bering Sea. This represents a 90 percent drop in the crab population, they say.

Popular Mechanics • July 8, 2022

When You Have Two Bowls That Are Stuck, You’ll Luck When You Try This Method

The internet was lively with commentary last month after a communications professional shared the saga of getting two ceramic bowls stuck together.

itch.io • June 22, 2022

What Will You Have? A Browser Game About Dinner Dates

In this short, completely SFW dating sim, you choose a main ingredient that will "cook" while you go on dates.

Medium • June 16, 2022

nilson carroll’s personal, liminal grocery game

"I usually end up using the framework of the RPG to explore issues around bodies, illness, and queerness. My games, even ones that don’t seem like it, are highly autobiographical, and sometimes function like diaries. I’m interested in working within the margins."

Uppercut • April 28, 2021

Episode Forty Five: Bartending Games (ft. Don and Caroline)

Ty, our “What’s Cookin’?” column creator, is joined by Don and Caroline for this special episode of Palin’ Around to talk about bartending games! Pour one out for this one.

Popular Mechanics • July 31, 2020

Hot New Medicine: This 1,000-Year-Old Mixture of Garlic, Onion, Wine, and Cow Bile

Scientists are studying a millennium-old medicinal recipe they say might be able to kill some antibiotic-resistant bacterial structures: onions, garlic, a splash of wine, and cow bile.

Stacker • June 23, 2020

100 inventions that changed America

To compile a list of 100 inventions that changed America, Stacker looked at lists like ones from the Atlantic and philosophical STEM brain trust Edge.org along with a healthy dose of food history and miscellany.

STEM Toolkit • June 6, 2020

STEM activities: Making small stuff huge

This week in issue 5 we’re going to talk about big things.

Unwinnable Exploits • May 2, 2020

Making Do in Battle Chef Brigade

Battle Chef Brigade has given me the inspiration I need to keep cooking through the pandemic. Just like in real life, a key sauce can transform your dish – but someone with the right pantry can excel with any ingredient.

Popular Mechanics • April 7, 2020

How to Make Whipped Coffee, the Internet's Favorite Viral Quarantine Recipe

I studied up on the science of popular whipped dalgona coffee, with an assist from a chemist who specializes in foamy beverages.

Popular Mechanics • April 2, 2020

Let's Find Out If You Can Drive a Car on Cheese Wheels

As parents all over the world scramble for projects they can safely do while stuck inside with their children, the experiment we're about to show you is decidedly not kid-friendly.

Popular Mechanics • January 23, 2020

Mathematicians Devise Formula for How to Brew the Perfect Espresso

Scientists have found the golden ratio for ground espresso beans, or more aptly, the Goldilocks ratio: not too small, not too large, but somewhere in the middle.

Popular Mechanics • January 17, 2020

18 Things You Probably Don't Know About Prohibition

We may treat Prohibition like a joke today, but it was the result of decades of political crusading and did lead to a longer-term stanching of alcohol use. In fact, there's a lot of surprising stuff packed into just under 14 years of Prohibition.

Popular Mechanics • January 9, 2020

Mathematical Model Shows Why Spaghetti Curls When Cooked

Researchers used their noodles—we’re so sorry—to put together a mathematical model that accounts for gravity, density, elasticity, and rigidity in cooking “rod-shaped” noodles like spaghetti.

Eater • January 2, 2020

The Cooking Show at the End of the Road

“Today on Check the Pantry, it’s a battle royale featuring mustard,” Jeff Lockwood’s voice says over the radio. Lockwood’s cooking show, Check the Pantry, which began in 2018 on the local public radio station KBBI, explores food culture one ingredient at a time in Homer, Alaska.