Andrew Simmons

Piggy chocolate. House-made pickles. New Nordic Cuisine. Food stamps. No, it's not as sexy as reindeer tartare with a lichen gastrique or a bar of fair-trade dark studded with smoked bacon bits, but the humble food stamp is really catching on. According to a Sept. 29th Fox News report that......

Posted on September 29th, this GOOD infographic ably breaks down the cost of keeping Americans safe from foodborne illnesses. Some--industry lobbyists and their political allies, for starters--say expenses associated with implementing the Food Safety Bill (around $1.6 billion, according to Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn) would prove prohibitive. Once you factor......

A natural chicken still spends the entirety of its short life in a factory--stacked with its brethren in a feathery, disease-ridden pile. A natural soda still rots your teeth. As applied to food, the word "natural" is a marketing construct designed to make consumers think that some products are better......

A few months ago, we took a look at Craigslist's Farm and Garden Classifieds. We continue to digest the findings. It seems that some of the people selling livestock on the side speak of their wares in practical terms--meat, milk, eggs, breeding, market value. Others exude a warmth usually reserved......

Last December, we listed some of the most fetching phở restaurant names around the country--Phở King, Phở Shizzle, and Beverly Hills' own 9021Phở among others. As we ate at Koreatown's Simply Phở You a week or so ago, we thought of a few more that, to our immediate knowledge, aren't......

Set to go off tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday at Ports O' Call Village in San Pedro, the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is sure to be a polarizing affair. Committed locavores will lock up their bibs at the notion of celebrating New England's quintessential crustacean on the California coast......

According to a September 14th New York Times Well piece, the Corn Refiners Association, the representative of firms manufacturing high-fructose corn syrup, is trying to get the FDA to start referring to the ingredient as "corn sugar." The FDA has six months to respond to the petition for a fresh......