Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.05.2012
The end of Hana Shalabi's 44-day hunger strike has produced mixed results, and has pointed out another under-reported issue -- the separation and difficulty of movement between Gaza and West Bank.
Dr. Gary Ginsberg | Posted 04.23.2012
Taking a crop high in arsenic and concentrating it down into a syrup and then putting that into baby formula sounds like a terrorist plot on a TV drama. Unfortunately, it's actually happening.
Kris Yenbamroong | Posted 03.14.2012
My mortar-pounded nam priks are the best I've had and my pork rinds are like crack, meaning there are a few things I do well. That's because when it comes to matters of the kitchen, I keep it simple, and you should too.
Posted 01.05.2012
FreeRice.com, once a small seedling, has sprouted into something huge. The online game that allows players to donate grains of rice for correctly ...
Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.25.2012
Grain is as American as apple pie. So it's only natural that farmers who want to protect this land -- and its amber waves -- are growing it sustainably.
AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 02.14.2012
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Rice growers met a threshold to move forward with a $750 million settlement over genetically modified rice, the company blam...
AP | Posted 11.20.2011
WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking his country to the brink of civil war. Rice tel...
NPR.org | By Dan Charles and Jordan Calmes | Posted 01.07.2012
In 2008, food prices around the world surged and awakened fears -- which continue to this day -- that the world could re-live the disastrous food shor...
Small Kitchen College | Posted 12.04.2011
Whether in the dining hall or in your own kitchen, remember these rules about portion control.
Laura Kumin | Posted 11.23.2011
A bag of rice saved my iPhone a few days ago. I am often klutzy, sometimes dumb and occasionally very unlucky. On Sunday I hit the trifecta, managing to be all three at once.
Small Kitchen College | Posted 11.14.2011
At least once or twice a week, I go food shopping. While you might imagine me pushing a cart through the aisles of a grocery store, these weekly trips actually take place in my dining hall.
Food Republic | Posted 10.19.2011
Yes, your coffee is stale, but how did it get that way? Are you really deep in a food coma, or does the mere thought of food-induced fatigue bring on the yawns?
Michelle Won | Posted 08.02.2011
If you are a New Yorker... or know a New Yorker... or know someone who knows a New Yorker, you know about the best halal chicken and rice cart on 53rd and 6th. Our chicken recipe is better.
AP | Posted 06.22.2011
HOUSTON — Four Rice University football players are free on bond after their arrests by campus police in separate cases this week. Online recor...
Maria Rodale | Posted 06.13.2011
We have always loved that rice pilaf stuff that comes in a box and cooks up quick and flavorful. But I've stopped buying it, since it isn't organic. S...
Daniel Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011
I was the first to arrive back to work after the afternoon siesta. Suddenly, a man wearing bright orange pants with a burlap sack slung over his shoul...
Josh Ozersky | Posted 05.25.2011
Previously: Sashimi at Sushi Zen, Part I ...
Bloomberg | Rudy Ruitenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
A global food crisis on the scale of what happened three years ago isn't recurring because a jump in the cost of rice, a staple for half the world, ha...
Mika Ono | Posted 05.25.2011
In East Asia, the color red is associated with luck and happiness, so it's no surprise that dishes featuring red ingredients are consumed as part of the 15 days of festivities beginning the year.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011
Deciding to raise chickens in an apartment that's smaller than a chicken coop isn't something Jules Corkery and Robert McMinn are doing on a whim.
Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011
The idea that agribusiness lobbyists don't have the funds to properly "defend" their continuing cornucopia of taxpayer dollars does not even come close to passing the smell test.
Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.25.2011
The connoisseur of films and food explains how a rice cooker can reward both taste buds and waistlines while taking little space on your counter or your schedule.
Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011
Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival o...
Ellen Kanner | Posted 05.25.2011
Sustainability wasn't a buzzword when Albert and Frances Lundberg began farming, but they understood what it meant.
Marilinda Hodgdon | Posted 05.08.2012