Story Index

Nutrition

Snack addiction; allergy ballads; calories you can get for a dollar; veggie Rx; and more.

Eat a Carrot and Call Me in the Morning

Doctors prescribe vegetables to overweight patients

By Rosa Ramirez
The Science of Food Addiction

Can a doughnut act like a drug?

By Anja Strejcek and Rebecca Wolfson
INFOGRAPHIC: Grandma Had Better Tomatoes

Your fruits and veggies are less nutritious than they used to be.

By Natalie Jones
INFOGRAPHIC: Calories vs. Price

Which would you choose?

By Andrea Jezovit
INFOGRAPHIC: Where Do Americans Get Their Calories?

The changing American diet

By Andrea Jezovit
Food Labels: EU Sets New Mark, Help Rethink Ours

By Felix Irmer
EAT AT YOUR OWN RISK

A Collaboration with Pictory, Foodspotting and Letterform

By Lily Mihalik
The Food Industry Tries to Redesign the Nutrition Label: Fails

By Lily Mihalik
Allergy Minstral: Inside the Allergic-Kid Economy

By Rebecca Wolfson
A Nutritional Facts Label for the People, By the People

One project asks, "Can design change the way we eat?"

By Lily Mihalik
Those Seeking Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods Look to Milk

By Felix Irmer

Pesticide poisoning; an open source tractor; filming big ag; hippie farmers; and more.

VIDEO: Lost in Sprawl

Threatened by suburban development, a fourth-generation farmer documents his family's doomed legacy with time-lapse video.

By Thomas Gorman
VIDEO: The (Open-Source) Ecologist

A farm run by DIY technologists aims to revolutionize agriculture.

By Mario Furloni and Thomas Gorman
VIDEO: The Farm

Their idealism gave rise to the local and organic food movement.

By Brooke Minters and Kate McLean
VIDEO: Farms, Lies and Videotape

Who gets to tell the story of America's largest livestock farms?

By Vanessa Carr and Carl Nasman
VIDEO: GMOrganic, A Botanical Love Story

He's an organic farmer. She's a genetic engineer. They're married.

By Kate McLean
Radishes in Suburbia

Documenting urban growth and the end of a family farm

By Thomas Gorman
How Can We Keep the People Who Harvest Our Veggies Healthy Too?

By Bridget Huber
Will the EPA help doctors fight pesticide poisoning?

By Bridget Huber
VIDEO: The Disappearing Farmer

It's hard for the small farmer. It's harder when you're black.

By Brooke Minters

Are they over-hyped? A food program revamps mini-marts; Walmart; and more.

INFOGRAPHIC: Soundscape of a Fresno food desert

Click a point on the map to hear an audio portrait and learn more about the neighborhood.

By Natalie Jones and Rebecca Wolfson
VIDEO: A Farm in New Orleans

Latino immigrants put down roots in the Chocolate City

By Vanessa Carr and Alissa Figueroa
Who Moved the chips?

Can a federal nutrition program for women and children change America’s corner stores?

By Annie Mathews
Walmart Prepares to Storm the Desert

Oasis or mirage?

By Bridget Huber
To Eat and Live in a New Orleans Food Desert

By Rosa Ramirez

An aspiring superfruit; freeze-dried food for survival; fast food ads in Spanish; and more.

Berried Alive: On the trail of an aspiring superfood

By Cassie Werber
INFOGRAPHIC: Googling Superfoods

The changing popularity of superfruits through time.

By Andrea Jezovit
On Television, Latino Children See More Unhealthy Food Ads

By Rosa Ramirez
VIDEO: The Politics of Food

Iowa City's Hamburg Inn carved a place for itself in national politics.

By Mario Furloni
INFOGRAPHIC: Mapping Global Food Spending

How does America measure up?

By Natalie Jones
The Freeze-Dried Food Craze, Seven Things You Should Know

Tea partiers, Glenn Beck, and the Mormon church are all nuts for astronaut food. What's the big deal?

By Annie Mathews
Caught: Fake Organic Certificates from China  

By Diana Jou
A Fish Without Bones

The rise of meat glue.

By Lily Mihalik
Organic and Gluten-Free Passover Foods On the Rise

A new spin on an ancient tradition

By Rebecca Wolfson
Away at Food Camp

Roasted pig, halibut sashimi, ricotta blintzes, foodies around a campfire.

By Lily Mihalik
Restaurant Gardens a Boon to New Farmers

By Natalie Jones
VIDEO: The Dark Future of Food Advertising

DORITOS 626 interactive ad campaign

By Mario Furloni, Brooke Minters, Kate McLean, Thomas Gorman and Carl Nasman