Inspired by The Omnivore’s Dilemma, a group of suburban book clubbers decide to raise their own meat.

Michael Pollan writes CliffsNotes for this year’s Farm Bill.

Two exchanges between food purveyors and critical eaters prove a point: The pen is mightier than the fork.

A BBC video on foraging instills a hunter-gatherer longing, but learning about wild food is best done in person.

It’s official. Everything at fast food restaurants is actually made of corn.

Speaker of the House’s “reform” on Farm Bill is anything but.

The New Yorker on the second wave of food-politics books.

A new study finds that rats gain more weight on saccharin than on sugar.

Ohio cow dodges a date with a dinner plate.

Promoting biodiversity over massive corn-and-soy subsidies isn’t just good for the earth, says chef Dan Barber. It’s good for the palate, too.

BusinessWeek revisits “big organic” in a sprawling cover story that looks at the rising organic tide from the corporations’ point of view.

Americans have lost interest in dieting.

More on rats, artificial sweeteners, and you, dear reader.

Local farmers are getting star treatment by major food retailers these days, and we’re not just talking Whole Foods: Regional grocery chains and even Wal-Mart are jumping at the chance to court the growing buy-local...

Californians munch their way through the biannual Slow Food Terra Madre conference in Turin, where the pig fat’s tasty but the meatballs are MIA.