food

Millie Bobby admits being a Karen and hates waiting for food

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Stranger Things star, Millie Bobby Brown has been criticized for her attitude with staff when she is dining at a restaurant. Millie Bobby Brown during a podcast appearance in Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware revealed that she does not like waiting to order food or pay her bill. Speaking to the hosts Jessie … Read more

Cuba ‘Power and Food’ Protests Erupt in Over Blackouts and Hunger

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Protesters took to the streets of Cuba on Sunday in a rare outburst of social unrest as a fresh wave of blackouts exacerbated tensions on the cash-strapped island. Social media posts showed crowds of people in Santiago de Cuba, the second-largest city on the eastern part of the island, chanting “corriente y comida”—power and and … Read more

Cubans in eastern city of Santiago protest blackouts and food shortages

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HAVANA — Small groups of protesters took to the streets in the eastern city of Santiago on Sunday, decrying power outages lasting up to eight hours and food shortages across Cuba. Videos on social media showed demonstrators on the outskirts of Santiago, which is about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Havana. State media confirmed the … Read more

Why TikTok Food Critic Keith Lee Wants His Followers To ‘Relax’

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With more than 16 million followers on TikTok and nearly 2 million on Instagram, popular content creator and food reviewer Keith Lee has a lot of eyes watching all he’s doing. He recently shared a video on TikTok asking his followers to “relax” after receiving some unnecessary comments on a video about his recent time … Read more

States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

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The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation. Major meat producers Cargill and Tyson have both invested in cultivated meat companies, while Brazil’s JBS is working on a cultivated research site in Brazil. “We see ourselves as an ‘and’ solution, not an ‘or.’ … Read more

Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are

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Extreme heat kills roughly half a million people worldwide each year, but at the current rate of global warming it could be close to five times as deadly by 2050. Then there are the indirect health risks of climate change: Chaotic weather and higher temperatures generate deadly natural disasters, bring diseases into new areas, and … Read more

Violence is battering Haiti’s fragile economy and causing food and water shortages

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Rotting fruit, withered vegetables, empty water jugs and spent gas canisters now stock the stores and stands that serve Haiti’s poor — a consequence of the unrelenting gang attacks that have paralyzed the country for more than a week and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods. The terrifying violence as … Read more

A 41-year-old pelican and other animals wait for their food at Nepal’s only zoo

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — At the stroke of 10 every morning at the only zoo in Nepal, a 41-year-old pelican arrives at the entrance of the animal kitchen, waiting patiently for program officer Ganesh Koirala to arrive. The pelican knows that with Koirala will come breakfast — a one-kilogram (2-pound) fish. Inside the busy kitchen, zookeepers … Read more

The Mill food waste bin is now available to buy without a subscription, for $999

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Last year when I reviewed Nest co-founder Matt Rogers’ new project, the Mill smart trash can, I was impressed with its food-grinding prowess. But I disliked its monthly subscription and that it wasn’t actually making chicken feed out of my food waste as promised. A year later, the company is out with the second generation of the … Read more