Food & Drink

There's a specific tiredness that belongs to people who spent their twenties and thirties optimising every meal, every workout, and every weekend, and who arrived in their forties to discover that optimisation is what kept them from ever fully arriving anywhere

Colombia just became the first Amazon nation to legally require beef traceability from calf to supermarket — and the real target isn't ranchers, it's the armed groups laundering cattle through the forest

Nobody talks about why some of the most thoughtful people you know quietly stopped eating meat in their forties, and it isn't moralising or fashion, it's that somewhere between caring for an ageing parent and burying a pet, the line between us and them got harder to defend

Whey protein prices have doubled in two years and cheese supply can't catch up — which is exactly why the EU just handed Vivici €12.5M to ferment the molecule instead

People who keep their pantry sparse and their fridge half-empty aren't always disorganised or under-resourced, many grew up watching food go to waste and learned that abundance you can't actually eat is just clutter with an expiration date

Solar Foods just landed €77.8M from Business Finland for a factory that won't open until 2028 — and the real test isn't EU approval, it's whether gas-fermented protein can undercut soy on price

Children who were praised for being mature for their age, who were trusted with adult information, and who learned to manage their parents' moods before puberty often grow into adults who can run a company but cannot answer the question of what they want for dinner

10 small kitchen habits that quietly separate people who actually enjoy cooking from people who learned to perform it

The most expensive ingredient in cultivated meat isn't the cell line or the bioreactor — it's a protein called albumin, and a Tufts spinout thinks canola oil waste is the fix

Danone is suing Chobani over high-protein yogurt claims — and the case isn't really about Oikos, it's about who gets to define what "high-protein" means on every label in the dairy aisle

The compostable bowls and molded fiber containers marketed as greener takeout choices were often PFAS trouble spots — and a new federal bill could force packaging suppliers to clean up the paper trail

Quiet adults at loud dinner parties aren't shy

Most people don't realise the generation that grew up eating dinner at six o'clock with the television off, the phone on the wall, and no second helping without asking is now the last living archive of what undivided attention used to feel like

Nobody talks about why the calmest people in the room are often the ones who eat alone most often, and it isn't loneliness or avoidance, it's that solitary meals are where they finally stop performing

People who finally start cooking for themselves in their fifties often aren't rediscovering food — many are meeting the version of themselves that was always last in line behind partners, children, and other people's preferences for decades

JBS is closing U.S. beef plants and calling it efficiency — but the timing, the antitrust lawsuit and a 75-year cattle low tell a different story about who actually controls American meat

People who cook elaborate meals only for themselves aren't necessarily lonely — many have simply learned how to enjoy their own company

Quebec judge clears oat milk surcharge lawsuit against Starbucks, Tim Hortons and Foodtastic

Everyone with prediabetes has been told that eating better and moving more protects their heart — a new King's College London study says that's only true if the glucose number actually normalizes

There's a particular kind of relief that arrives the first time you eat a meal slowly without scrolling, talking, or planning the next thing, and most people don't recognise it for what it is, the nervous system meeting itself for the first time in years