A blog page for my own stuff, mostly about Linux and tech in general and politics.

If you stop at a roadside restaurant anywhere between North Dakota and Oklahoma, you might not immediately get a sense of culinary diversity. Many menus in rural and small-town middle America consist…

The ancestor of the big red strawberry is in peril.

There are two ways to produce seafood: catch fish in the wild or farm your own. Seafood farming is often called “aquaculture”. Aquaculture is dominated by the farming of fish, but also includes other organisms, such as crustaceans and aquatic plants.

Emulsifiers are among the additives most widely used by the food industry, helping to improve the texture of food and extend its shelf life. Researchers from Inserm, INRAE, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Université Paris Cité and Cnam, as part of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (CRESS-ER...

Introduction to bin packing through a simple example of fitting boxes of candy inside a parcel.

In which a pasta-filled rabbit hole leads to an unexpected place

How centuries of milk marketing warped the way we think about dairy and nutrition.

Is red meat bad for you? A multiverse analysis shows that the answer varies by analytic method. The takeaway beyond meat is that this approach should be used for most observational research.

A popular saying in Argentina has it that “a mate is denied to no one”

Appearing in the written record as early as 2300 BCE, saffron can be traced in foodways around the globe, despite the finicky nature of its harvest.

Did you know fungi naturally produce all the ingredients needed for a cruelty-free meat substitute? Our scientists are exploring how tuning the genomes of mushrooms and molds can transform these food sources into gourmet, nutrient-packed meals made with minimal processing and a light environmental f...

New food packaging products sold in the U.S., such as takeout boxes and fast-food wrappers, will no longer contain harmful "forever chemicals" known as PFAS.