For centuries Native Americans intercropped corn, beans and squash because the plants thrived together. A new initiative is measuring health and social benefits from reuniting the “three sisters.”
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Inaction over the next few months could cost tens of thousands of lives. Here are things you should do now to stay safe and to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
COVID-19 and holiday family gatherings are not a good pair. But taking the right precautions before, during and after the family gets together can greatly reduce coronavirus risk this holiday season.
Over the approaching holidays, people around the world will want to travel to see friends and family. Getting tested for the coronavirus can make this safer, but testing alone is not a perfect answer.
Thanksgiving is a life-enriching practice worth cultivating all year long.
It doesn’t have to be a week of tiresome turkey sandwiches. A food historian explains how the French came to see leftovers as an outlet for creativity and experimentation.
Bread. Yeast. Wine. Cheese. All these delicious foods are courtesy of various forms of domesticated fungi. So how, exactly, did humans tame wild fungi into the cooperative species that make our food?
Sit down to Thanksgiving dinner ready to amaze your companions with physiological facts about why different cuts of the turkey have different characteristics.
Tryptophan, found in food, is an important ingredient in the neurotransmitter serotonin. But is that enough to support it as a possible mood booster? The research is decidedly mixed.
Turkey has become easier to produce over the years, making it easier on American wallets – with some environmental benefits as well.
All of us have allergies to people whose seemingly inconsequential behaviour repulses us. Here’s how to deal with it this holiday season.
The Pilgrims repeatedly thanked God for their good fortune. But without two earlier developments, the entire undertaking at New Plymouth would have likely failed.
Research shows that when Americans are aware of the scale of food waste, and how much energy and water are used to produce food, they support measures to reduce the problem.
Millions of Americans will be shopping for turkeys in the coming days. An economist suggests a few things to keep in mind as you hunt for the perfect bird for your feast.
Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
Ritual feasting emerged around the time humans were beginning to farm. It came to play an important role in societal bonding, much as it does today.
How do foods break into new niches and global markets? US cranberry growers, saddled with large surpluses and working to boost demand for their product, could take a lesson from soybeans.
At one point, turkey was jockeying with duck and chicken for king of the Thanksgiving table.
In the 19th century, puddings were as popular and widespread as pasta dishes are today.
For those wondering whether it is sinful to drink, even moderately, a scholar goes into the history of alcohol and its distillation to show how early monks and priests contributed to it.
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University
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Professor, North Dakota State University
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Professor Emeritus, Psychology, The Ohio State University
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of History, University of the Pacific
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Assistant Professor, Social Studies Education, Penn State
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Distinguished Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers University
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Director of the Family Resiliency Center and Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota
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Professor Emerita of Family Therapy, UMass Amherst
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Research Fellow Ruhr University Bochum, University of Stavanger
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Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
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Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
