Society and Food

American Culture & Lifestyles

• The Astronomical Success Story of Lipton Onion Soup Mix (Food 52)
• Ranch Nation (The New York Times)

• Touch Free Packaging Shows How Disconnected We Are From What's On Our Plate (Huff Post)
• From Collards To Maple Syrup, How Your Identity Impacts The Food You Like (NPR)
• San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work. (The New York Times)
• How to fix the American diet, according to the man who coined the term ‘junk food’ (The Washington Post)

Consumption

• The dark side of plant-based food – it’s more about money than you may think (The Conversation)

• Can food change your mood? (The Guardian)
• For The First Time, Americans Spend More On Eating Out Than On Food At Home (Zero Hedge)
• A close look at Americans' food budget shows an obvious place to save money (Business Insider)
• How children are taught to stop loving and start eating animals (Treehugger)

Cultural Diffusion 

• In Praise of Flour Tortillas, an Unsung Jewel of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The New Yorker)

Generational Identities

• Food is where the generation gap is widest (The Guardian)

• Millennials’ eating habits are wildly different from their parents' (Business Insider)

Food and Gender

• What Do Hamburgers Have To Do With Gender? (NPR)

Food Gentrification & Acculturation

• How Raw Water Tries to Make Poverty Hip (New Republic)
• When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing (The New York Times Magazine)

Food Deserts & Inequality

• A Taste of Inequality: Food’s Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum (Sociology Science)

• Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: Charge White Customers More Than Minorities (NPR)
• It's Not the Food Deserts: It's the Inequality (City Lab)
• Poor Americans are less likely to eat fast food than middle class Americans (Quartz)

Modern Food Production

• Good Enough to Eat? The Toxic Truth About Modern Food (The Guardian)

• Why US chickens have to be washed with chlorine (Daily Mail)

• Red Skittles Spilling Onto Wisconsin Highway Were Headed for Cattle Feed (National Geographic)
• Read this and you may never eat chicken again (The Guardian)
• The strange story of turkey tails speaks volumes about our globalized food system (The Conversation)
• Hidden Dangers Could Lurk in Your Next Meal (National Geographic)
• The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows (The Washington Post)
• The harrowing psychological toll of slaughterhouse work (Metro)

Public Policy

• How the Government Came to Decide the Color of Your Food (Smithsonian)

• Examining Consumer Responses to Calorie Information on Restaurant Menus in a Discrete Choice Experiment (Rand Corporation)

• How school lunches measure up in countries around the world (CNN)
• 'Supersizing Urban America': How U.S. Policies Encouraged Fast Food To Spread (NPR)

Cultural Lag

• Clean Meat, Via Lab, Is On The Way (NPR)

Global Culture

• How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories (The Conversation)
• Fake processed food is becoming an epidemic in African urban life (Quartz)
• How Norwegians Eat Their Way To Being Among The World's Healthiest People (Huffington Post)
• Cod and ‘Immune Broth’: California Tests Food as Medicine (The New York Times)

Human Ecology & Food Waste

• This supermarket is selling soup, beer and soap made from food waste (World Economic Forum)

• Why the U.S. Wastes More Food Than Almost Any Other Country (The Balance)
• The atmosphere is changing the food we eat (Treehugger)
• 5 Alarming Statistics From the New Food Waste Documentary Narrated by Anthony Bourdain (Newsweek)

Food and Society In Historical Context

• The History Behind One of America’s Most Beloved Deserts (The Atlantic)
  

• A chance encounter between a fruit fly and a pail of milk gave us cheese (Quartz)
• How Did Salt And Pepper Become The Soulmates Of Western Cuisine? (National Public Radio)
• The global dominance of white people is thanks to the potato (Quartz)
• The Political Saga of Avocados (The Atlantic)
• The Ancient Andean Tradition of Eating Clay May Have Helped To Protect Health (NPR)
• Wars over a brew: review of 'A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World' (The Hindu)