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How Does Lab-Grown Salmon Taste? Pretty Close to Fresh-Caught
Overfishing and climate change are causing trouble for the world’s salmon population in oceans and rivers – but what if your salmon didn’t need to be fished or farmed? Wildtype is using “cellular agriculture” to grow sushi-grade cuts of salmon and help fisheries recover. Co-founders Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck joined LX News to explain how it works.
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Why These Activists Use the Term ‘Food Apartheid' Instead of ‘Food Desert'
Millions of Americans struggle to access fresh and affordable groceries every day. The areas they live in are most often called “food deserts,” but academics and activists use another term they say better reflects the systemic racism that created them. That term is “food apartheid.” Here’s how food apartheid plays out in Chicago — and how local community members are...
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Heinz Working on Ketchup Bottle Made From Wood Pulp
The brand is working with Pulpex, the same company behind a paper whiskey bottle.
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Biden Sees Bigger Role for US Farms Due to Ukraine War
President Joe Biden is vowing to help American farmers try to ease a global spike in food prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He visited a family farm in Illinois on Wednesday and unrolled policies meant to increase harvests in ways that the administration believes could also help to reduce grocery bills at home. The Democrat is making a pitch...
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Limited-Edition Old Bay Goldfish Hit Shelves
Goldfish crackers is partnering with Old Bay for a new “bold” and “zesty” limited-edition snack just in time for summer. The limited-edition Old Bay seasoned Goldfish snack is now available, according to a news release. The crackers are seasoned with Old Bay’s popular spice blend that includes black pepper, paprika, celery salt and red pepper flakes, which “creates a...
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Celebrate Cinco de Mayo 2022 With These Food Discounts and Deals
Discover the best Cinco De Mayo deals you can take advantage of this Thursday.
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Chef Eli Kulp Teams Up With MANNA for Live Kitchen Podcast
Chef Eli Kulp is bringing his podcast to MANNA for a live cooking event. Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle gets details.
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How to Grocery Shop Like You're Saving the Planet
What foods should you buy to help the environment? How should you use your dollar at the grocery store to vote for a better climate future? Author and Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Dr. Jessica Fanzo explains.
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Burger Vending Machine Comes to New Jersey Mall
The culinary future is here! We may not have flying cars but we do have burger-making robots. Late last month, Jersey City’s Newport Center Mall, welcomed RoboBurger, advertised and described as “the world’s first robot burger chef.” The RoboBurger machine is a self-operating, patented system that features a five-step cooking process that cooks and assembles burgers on the spot....
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A Couple Walked 7,000 Miles Through NYC to Find the Best Bagels
NBC New York’s Kay Angrum talks about a new map of the best bagels in NYC, and pays a visit to Bo’s Bagels in Harlem, the business ranked seventh out of 200. A lot of hard work went into making the map: the couple behind it walked more than 130 miles a week for 13 months.
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From Alcohol-Free Cocktails to Vegan Food: Manayunk Bar Serves Something Different
Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle chats with co-owner Robert Ashford about the non-alcoholic drinks and vegan food options on the menu at The Volstead by Unity in Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood.
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Chef Cristina Martinez Escaped Abuse And Became a Voice for the Undocumented
“I’m not afraid to be that voice, to say that we need papers, we need a life,” says Cristina Martinez. The South Philly Barbacoa chef is open about being undocumented, and uses her platform to call for change. Her activism and her cooking have led to multiple award nominations. Martinez tells 1st Look host Johnny Bananas about leaving behind an...
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Russian War in World's ‘Breadbasket' Threatens Food Supply
The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine also are threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands known as the “breadbasket of the world.”
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Companies Used Inflation as an Excuse to Jack Up Prices, and She's Got the Receipts
Many businesses have posted rising profits and 70-year-high profit margins since the pandemic. But executives have also talked openly in earnings calls about raising prices, and then saying the increases were due to inflation. And Lindsay Owens and her organization Groundwork Collaborative have the receipts to prove it. She joined LX News to talk about how many businesses are seeing...
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3 of the Most Cursed Foods People Used to Eat for the Super Bowl
It’s nearly kickoff time. Do you know where your jellied cucumber-olive salad is? Super Bowl LVI is coming up, and like all the other big games from years past, it’s expected to be a bad day for wallets and stomachs. Many homes across the nation are going to make mountains of food, including party staples like chicken wings, Lipton-soup-based...
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Robots Drop Meals From Ceiling at Winter Olympics
A scene out of a sci-fi movie is made real at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Trays with food careen down from the ceiling in an effort to minimize person-to-person contact.
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8 Quirky Food Brand Collabs We Wish We Got To Try in 2021
Brand collaborations have been a popular concept for several years now, and 2021 brought us some especially confusing but also delicious-sounding examples. The fashion, music and makeup industries certainly cranked out plenty of interesting collabs this past year, but food and beverage companies may’ve generated the most conversation. A technicolor chocolate cookie! Spicy soda! Potato-flavored liquor from potatoes! Here’s...
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The 9-Inch Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Pie Sold Out in Hours. Here's How to Make Your Own
The no-bake recipe combines peanut butter with crushed graham crackers, butter and powdered sugar to achieve the same consistency of the filling in a Reese’s peanut butter cup.
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Tips From the TSA on Flying With Thanksgiving Food
If you want to fly home with your favorite Thanksgiving dish and don’t know if you should pack it or not, here are a few tips from the TSA on getting through security.
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Food-Filled Holidays Are Approaching. Here's What You Can't (and Can) Feed Your Pet
As much as your dog or cat may beg, there are some foods that it’s actually unsafe to feed your pet. Here are some of the foods you can and can’t share.