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Walk down any supermarket aisle aimed at children and you'll find brightly packaged cereals, snack bars, frozen meals, and sweet drinks, most of them ultra-processed. These foods now make…
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Some of the most expensive items on a restaurant menu today were once the food of prisoners, servants, and the poor. The lobster that comes with drawn butter and…
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The American home kitchen of the 1970s produced a specific repertoire of dishes that have almost entirely disappeared from contemporary cooking. The gelatin salad with suspended vegetables. The liver…
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Rice is one of the simplest foods in the world and one of the easiest to ruin. Crunchy grains at the bottom, a sticky paste on top, or a…
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The American family dinner of 1972 ran on a specific set of dishes that have almost entirely disappeared from the modern table. This was the height of the convenience-food…
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Walk down an American grocery aisle and you'll find products that, in much of the rest of the world, would either be illegal as sold or made with entirely…