Food and Health Articles
- Tackling Climate Change and Malnutrition: Researchers look at local diets for clues for doing both. Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine
- Killer Fish: As blue catfish invade the Chesapeake Bay’s headwaters, DC chefs 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
- 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 about Ogobara Doumbo in Science.
- 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.