Food For Thought

While cooking your food in aluminium pots or pans isn't a bad thing, placing it in foil and putting it in the oven is problematic. This is especially true with acidic or spicy food that's prepared at high temperatures.
Many of these chemicals are synthesized in a lab, and basically look like white powders before they're added to your food.
Comparisons of conventionally raised produce -- on average -- are priced the same at supermarkets and farmers markets alike. As for organic products? Turns out farmers' markets are actually cheaper (again, on average) than at the grocery store.
Believe it or not, a lot more of your favorite American foods might actually be banned from being sold abroad.
It turns out that vanilla is anything but boring.
One of the most popular foods in existence, cured and smoked pork belly seems to be everywhere you turn. But there are plenty of other varieties of bacon out there, made from other animals as well as vegetable-based proteins and even one fruit that might surprise you.