A keeper?
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What to do with those Christmas dinner leftovers.
Christmas dinner time!
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Follow these food safety tips to keep everyone happy and healthy this festive season.
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In the UK the equivalent of four million Christmas dinners are wasted every year.
Craft chocolate is on the rise.
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The chocolate industry is undergoing significant change at the moment, both for better and worse. Here are three trends on the positive side of things.
Cover of the menu for the AIF Christmas Dinner, Hotel Cecil, London, in 1916. Illustration by Fred Leist.
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For Australians serving overseas in WWI, Christmas was particularly difficult. Menus reveal how soldiers tried to maintain the traditions of home.
Go ahead Santa, take a cookie without guilt.
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Most Americans underestimate how many calories nutritionists recommend they consume each day, which means maybe you can probably have one more treat without feeling guilty.
Delicious, nutritious… and emissions-intensive.
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Most consumers underestimate the greenhouse emissions associated with different foods. But environmental labels, similar to existing nutrition information, can help us make lower-impact choices.
Can I get away with this amount of presents?
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Getting into the Christmas spirit means buying stuff. But how much is too much?
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Turkey, pigs in blankets, potatoes, parsnips, carrots, Brussels spouts and cranberries – which are safe and which aren’t?
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Just the act of eating each meal places a large degree of physiological stress on the immune system.
Foraging bees are exposed to a cocktail of toxic chemicals in the environment.
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The world’s most widely used herbicide poses a threat to honey bees.
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A guide to the battle for the future of farming.
A Thanksgiving feast.
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A behavioral scientist explains why people become vegans, why some meat-eaters find them so irksome and how scientists may be nudging us all toward a more plant-centric existence.
Research suggests male diners respond more favourably to restaurant meals if they consider their female server attractive.
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Heterosexual male diners can be particularly swayed by the attractiveness of their servers. Good food will taste better and lousy food will taste worse in the presence of attractive female servers.
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Don’t let Bjorn Lomborg’s cherry-picked statistics fool you.
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UK mired by food ‘deserts’ and a crisis of loneliness – they should be tackled together.
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As the number of companies growing meat in vats explodes, the sector is facing challenges that show it is coming of age.
Far too much of Australians’ diet comes from foods that have virtually no nutrients.
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A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows we’re eating less junk food than before, but still far too much.
Through grassroots movements like La Via Campesina, farmers around the world are working to reassert the rights of local food producers.
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If the food movement’s goal is to reclaim a corporatised food system by ‘rebuilding the public sphere from the ground up’, what does this look like?
The tomatoes we eat have been carefully bred over generations, but now we can tap into wild varieties.
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Gene editing of wild plants can help us tap into new sources of food. But we need to make sure it’s safe – and that demands some careful regulation.