Hot Farm Bill update! Click now! (By Nicholas Day)

Michael Pollan writes CliffsNotes for this year’s Farm Bill. (By Nicholas Day)

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

For example: carob-glazed doughnut holes. (By Lessley Anderson)

This week’s mission: healthy whole-grain cookies, and fancy juice blends. (By James Norton)

Fatty pork trumps lean. Has the other white meat chubbed up? (By Jason Krause)

Books for the plane, the beach, or just curling up in bed. (By Kate Ramos)

Our first annual awards, presenting a baker’s dozen of provocateurs, trendsetters, and rabble-rousers. (By Lessley Anderson)

What we learned at Madrid Fusión. (By Aida Mollenkamp and Regan Burns)

The country ham is our native prosciutto or serrano, though most Southerners wouldn’t dream of throwing an uncooked leg on a deli slicer and shaving some to go with the asparagus. Most Northerners, meanwhile, have never heard of... (By Sue Moore)

Stuffed with rosemary and lemon.

Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing, and more.

From bad spinach to exploding lattes: The tastiest moments of 2006.

What we ate, what the candidates ate, what the Olympians ate.

Real-time reporting on the Farm Bill from the Center for Rural Affairs. (By Nicholas Day)