Lastest Stories by Colman Andrews

Among the perks of student life on modern college campuses are the cool apartment-style school housing facilities that sometimes supplant or supplement traditional corridor-style dorms — and not...
One piece of nutritional advice unfailingly drummed into the heads of women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant is: Take plenty of folic acid. In a new study of more than 1,000 pregnant...
Global legal cannabis sales are predicted to reach $14.9 billion in 2019, a 36% increase over last year, according to the 2019 edition of the annual “State of Legal Cannabis Markets” report. A...
A new large-scale study conducted by Korean researchers, the results of which were just published in the European Heart Journal, has established a significant link between the common cardiac...
According to one recent survey, pizza is our favorite thing to eat, followed by steak. Be that as it may, the definitive American foods — those that virtually define our national cuisine, and that...
It’s no secret that we love hot dogs and hamburgers in America. We eat an estimated billion dogs and 50 billion burgers annually. They’re enjoyed all year long, of course, but summer seems to be...
Planning to move to a beach town somewhere in America? According to the 2019 ranking of best beach towns to live in just published by the credit reporting site WalletHub, Florida and California —...
The inevitable jokes about Irish cooking aside — “What’s an Irish tasting menu?” “A six-pack of Guinness and a potato” — the fact is that the food scene in Ireland today is vibrant and...
Whether we shop at farmers markets or grocery stores, or even get our culinary raw materials delivered, our first task when we get the grocery bags into the kitchen is to put everything away. Pantry...
A class action lawsuit filed late last month against Mondelēz International — the massive food company whose brands include Nabisco, Ritz, Cadbury, and Tate’s — accuses them of falsely...
A company known for its once-controversial unanchored offshore fish pens has plans to get into the specialty seaweed business in a big way. Kampachi Farms LLC, whose main business is raising the...
Old forests, dating back a century or more, can be magnificent to look at, but there’s more to them than just their majesty and beauty: They also seem to be unexpectedly resistant to some of the...
Swiss researchers have established that tannins found in pomegranates are converted in the digestive system into a compound that appears to slow down mitochondrial aging — a natural process that...
Just in time for summer reading, the Amazon Books editorial team has announced their picks for the 20 best books of the first almost-six months of the year. Their number-one pick is “City of Girls:...
Mechanical refrigeration — as opposed to earlier methods of cooling things with snow or natural ice — changed the world. Initially employed on a large scale mostly by the brewing and meatpacking...