If You Add Milk to Tea Does It Stop the Brewing Process?

Cooling down the liquid slows the steeping.

Can You Get Mad Cow Disease from Eating Bone Marrow?

That should be the least of your worries.

How Do They Get the Fat Out of Nonfat Milk?

Think of your washer’s spin cycle.

Can Microwaved Water Explode?

Superheated water means trouble.

Chronicles from a Pig Party

Our associate food editor goes to the Southern Foodways Alliance conference to celebrate the year of the pig and other Southern delights.

I Didn't Order Salmonella

Restaurant food poisoning etiquette.

Please Do Not Eat the Displays

Kitschy food museums cater to discriminating tastes.

What Is Freezer Burn?

That stale taste and cardboard texture are no good.

Why Should I Let My Meat Rest?

It’s cooked already. Can’t I eat it?

Is Drinking Shower Water Bad?

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.

Old but Not Lethal

Why raw eggs in aged eggnog won’t make you sick

Destination: Twin Cities Crawl

Well fed and hung over at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

How Does Packaged Guacamole Stay Green?

You have to tame a certain enzyme.

Bring Your Own Plastic Container

The greenest takeout packaging.

I'll Pay You to Kill My Steer

Free-range and grass-fed animals are big with consumers. So why won’t most American slaughterhouses kill them?