Lauren Rothman
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New York, NY, United States
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I Sting Myself With Bees 3 Times a Week
“I pick up the tweezers one at a time—a bee squirming at the end of each pair—and press it to my back, waiting for its burning sting.” → Read More
Avocado Stout Is the Beer Nobody Asked For
Just when we thought we'd reached peak avocado, a London pub has made "Millennial Stout." → Read More
The Link Between Food Security and Terrorism Is Surprisingly Complicated, Report Shows
Countries with greater food abundance are actually more likely—not less—to experience terrorism at home. → Read More
The US Pork and Beef Lobbies Are Hosting Cooking Classes to Win Over Chinese Youth
A dietitian present claimed the US-raised meats offered unique health benefits, and students received swag for sharing on social media. → Read More
New Advancements In Prosthetic Limbs Are Making It Easier To Crack Open a Cold One
The Coapt system allows users to accomplish two-handed tasks in the kitchen, and elsewhere, better than ever before. → Read More
American Cheese Obsessives Are 'Adopting' Alpine Cheesemakers to Preserve a Fading Tradition
“It seemed like a good way to get our hands on some obscure, off-the-beaten path cheese. What started as curiosity became an obsession." → Read More
This Hong Kong Food Startup Hires the Elderly to Package Its Organic Frozen Dinners
Kenneth Choi Man-Kin's project not only provides jobs and a sense of community for the elderly, but also combats food waste from local farms. → Read More
Avocados Are Not Vegan, Argues BBC TV Show Host
Big if true. → Read More
A Third of 'Gluten-Free' Dishes Contain Gluten, Study Shows
“Having gluten-free ingredients is not enough to ensure that gluten isn’t making its way into the food," says the lead doctor on the study. → Read More
How to Make Your Diet More Environmentally Friendly
You may be feeling helpless, but here are seven things you can start doing today to shrink your carbon footprint. → Read More
Why Was There a Bunch of DiGiorno Pizzas at a Little Caesar's? A Brief Investigation
Little Caesar's claims it has a perfectly reasonable explanation for the stacks of frozen pizza in its store. → Read More
Study Shows Exciting New Way that Diet Soda Can Make You Feel Like Shit
Turns out artificial sweeteners can mess with the delicate balance of your juicy little gut bacteria. → Read More
Why It's So Gosh Darn Hard to Pick Something to Eat for Your Dang Lunch
It's not just you. → Read More
This Lettuce-Peeling Robot Is Another Step Toward Human-Free Agriculture
It won't happen overnight, but mechanization is a growing threat to the agricultural labor force. → Read More
Please Don't Chug Beer Through Your Nose OK
College students: putting their parents' hard-earned tuition dollars to work by snorting Bud Light → Read More
The FDA Is Suddenly Obsessed with the Definition of 'Yogurt'
It looks like Big Dairy wants the Trump administration to strip the label from soy- and nut-based versions of the creamy stuff. → Read More
LA Will Finally Legalize Street Food Vending in 2019
Without legal protection, vendors run the risk of confiscation, jail, and in some cases, deportation. → Read More
There's Something Suspicious About This Lifetime-Supply-of-Bacon Contest
Bacon is the best way into a lot of people's hearts, but is it also the best way to distract from abuse allegations and legal trouble? → Read More
Milk Doesn't Make You Phlegmier, OK?
It's unclear where this dairy-maligning myth started, but it's time to banish it once and for all, a new study says. → Read More
Vicious Hornet Swarm at German Wine Festival Sends 13 to Hospital
"They're just bees," they said. "They're more afraid of you than you are of them," they said. → Read More