It may be back to school, but summer’s heat is far from over. Horrifying temperatures have been hitting California, particularly. In downtown Sacramento on Tuesday afternoon, a 100-year-old record was...
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Chef Kwame Onwuachi’s New York City Homecoming, The Capital Of Tea, And Will Inflation Cause A Recession?
Kwame Onwuachi has the news leading my week: The Bronx-born chef is making a big return to his hometown, with a restaurant set to debut inside the revamp of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center this fa...
Hunting Invasive Lionfish In Dominica, A $4.5 Billion Chicken Industry Consolidation, And The Moldy Grain Coming Out Of Ukraine’s Black Sea Ports
I’m back after my longest break from working in, well, my entire life, and feeling quite refreshed. How could I not after two weeks of organic juices, huge avocados and hikes to waterfalls and hot spr...
Modern Agriculture’s House Of Cards, Inside California’s Controversial Prop 13, And Why Private Label Is Having A Moment
As David Barber, a partner at agriculture and food investors Astanor Ventures, told me while reporting my latest feature, modern agriculture has been built on three key assumptions: cheap energy, free...
Hope For The Formula Shortage, McDonald’s Leaves Russia, And Soaring Chicken Prices
Through the early weeks of the pandemic, fake meat sales grew some 200% at retail, and that hype helped drive the sector to secure more than $2 billion in funding. A lot of that came from venture capi...
No Caviar Comes From Russia, The Deep Roots Of Regenerative Farming And The Brink Of A Global Hunger Catastrophe
Most American farmers overapply fertilizer. That’s the standard. It’s also a leading cause of waterway pollution and dead zones like the massive one in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as of soil degradati...
The Drivers Risking Their Lives To Feed Hungry Ukrainians, The Aftermath Of Expo West, And Making Sense Of Skyrocketing Prices
I’m rolling off a week of some high-highs and low-lows—what about you? I may have socialized more at Expo West and SXSW than I have in two years, and four panels later, I am feeling exhilarated in man...
Covid-19 Has Pushed Americans Back To Grandma’s Kitchen, How To Attend A Food Trade Show, And The Future Of Restaurants In Russia
Thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, buyers and distributors across the food industry are already packed inside the Anaheim Convention Center for the big return of Natural Products Expo West after a...