Food and Health Articles

• Killer Fish: As blue catfish invade the Chesapeake Bay’s headwaters, DC chefs find a way to fight back: Make them delicious. Washingtonian with recipes for Vidalia’s marinade and District Fishwife’s baked blue
• Counting Sleep: As Americans lose more sleep, researchers at Johns Hopkins look at various reasons why, and what to do. Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine
• U.S. Food Safety: Revised U.S. rules may help address problems described by farming pioneer Joel Salatin and others in Does One Size Fit All? – Environmental Health Perspectives.
• Doughnut History: Krispy Kreme’s Ring King in Smithsonian
• Brazil Nuts Stun Harvesters and Scientists: Smithsonian
• China’s Growing Organic Market: Globalization created an opening for organic exports and China has stepped into it in a big way. Environmental Health Perspectives
• Aquaculture Navigates Troubled Waters on a course toward healthier options for consumers. Environmental Health Perspectives
• Agritourism in Sicily Puts You on the Farm: The Washington Post
• Certified Coffee: Does the Premium Pay Off? Do Fair Trade and Organic labels make a difference where the coffee grows? Environmental Health Perspectives
• Getting to the Root of Ginseng: A wrinkle in ginseng culture, in Smithsonian. See also the Ginseng Fact Sheet, and of course the full story in Ginseng, the Divine Root.
• Home-grown Talent in West Africa for the Fight against Malaria: In Mali, one of the poorest countries in Africa, the son of traditional healers has fostered scientific excellence and created an unparalleled record against brain drain. See the article in Science here.
• Mob Rules: After 15 years on the lam, the kingpin of South Boston’s Winter Hill gang was arrested in California, a reminder of when Boston’s FBI office was compromised by informants. This article in the Village Voice explores an episode that rarely gets a footnote in histories about that scandal but sheds light on behavior from street thugs to CEOs.