How California's Blackouts Are Affecting The State's Dairy Farmers

How California's Blackouts Are Affecting The State's Dairy Farmers
Many dairy farmers in California are struggling to adapt to frequent power outages. Farmer Cody Nicholson Stratton talks with NPR's Ailsa Chang about how it has impacted his livestock and business.

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'Eat Joy': Top Authors Serve Up Recipes That Gave Them Comfort In Dark Times

'Eat Joy': Top Authors Serve Up Recipes That Gave Them Comfort In Dark Times
In a new book of essays, writers such as Claire Messud and Edwidge Danticat share stories of surviving dark times and the foods entwined with those memories. Think of it as a cathartic dinner party.

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Food Brings Families Together In 'Fry Bread'

Food Brings Families Together In 'Fry Bread'
Native Americans made fry bread by turning government rations turned into a delicious, warm food that brings people together. Fry bread is the subject of a new children's book.

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From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom

From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom
Brussels sprouts used to be scorned. Now they're trendy. And one reason for their renaissance sits tucked away in a basement storage room in the Netherlands.

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Teal Pumpkins Make Halloween Less Tricky For Kids With Food Allergies

Teal Pumpkins Make Halloween Less Tricky For Kids With Food Allergies
In addition to handing out candy, places that display teal pumpkins also give out non-food items such as glow sticks or stickers. The movement took off quickly on social media and continues to grow.

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Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes

Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes
A vast new analysis looked at 15 different food groups, like nuts, fish and red meat, ranking them based on how they influence health and the toll they take on the planet.

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Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes

Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes
A vast new analysis looked at 15 different food groups, like nuts, fish and red meat, ranking them based on how they influence health and the toll they take on the planet.

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Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes

Is A Diet That's Healthy For Us Also Better For The Planet? Most Of The Time, Yes
A vast new analysis looked at 15 different food groups, like nuts, fish and red meat, ranking them based on how they influence health and the toll they take on the planet.

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Distilling The Success Of Craft Distilleries

Distilling The Success Of Craft Distilleries
Forget craft beer. Craft liquor is having a moment.

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Where There's A Wine, There's A Way

Where There's A Wine, There's A Way
A Florida company has found a way to sidestep the Trump administration's new, 25% tariffs on French wine. The company is importing bulk wine by the truckload tariff-free and bottling it in the U.S.

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MIT's Very Old Milk

MIT's Very Old Milk
A carton of 25-year-old milk just celebrated its milestone anniversary at MIT. Nina Davis-Millis and Justin Cave discuss.

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Detroit Entrepreneurs Fight Food Insecurity With Lessons Of The Past

Detroit Entrepreneurs Fight Food Insecurity With Lessons Of The Past
In 1968, a survey found that African Americans paid more money for lower-quality groceries and struggled for access to fresh food, among other inequalities. Today, those same battles persist.

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Italy Winemakers Look To Adapt To Climate Change

Italy Winemakers Look To Adapt To Climate Change
Winemakers in some of Italy's most prominent regions are adapting to climate change to protect the quality of their world-famous wines.

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The Future Of French Fries

The Future Of French Fries
French fries are facing an existential crisis. As consumers opt for food delivery services, the shelf life of fries isn't good enough. But some are trying to engineer the fry of the future.

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'Mixtape Potluck' Is Inspired By Questlove's 'Food Salon' Dinner Parties

'Mixtape Potluck' Is Inspired By Questlove's 'Food Salon' Dinner Parties
NPR's David Greene talks to musician Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, the co-founder of the iconic hip-hop band The Roots, about his cookbook Mixtape Potluck.

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Diversifying Crops Is Good For The Planet. But Can It Be Good For Farmers' Wallets?

Diversifying Crops Is Good For The Planet. But Can It Be Good For Farmers' Wallets?
Fertilizer runoff is fueling the toxic algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico. Farmers could help, by growing crops in rotation to reduce the need for fertilizer. But it's unclear who will buy them.

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In Male-Dominated Pizza Circles, Women Are Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie

In Male-Dominated Pizza Circles, Women Are Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie
Men have long commanded the pizza-making scene, creating what one female champ calls a "macho problem." But that's starting to change as more women open pizzerias and gain recognition in the field.

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A Public Radio Listener Walks Into A Bar: Your Stories About Drinking Alcohol (Rebroadcast)

A Public Radio Listener Walks Into A Bar: Your Stories About Drinking Alcohol (Rebroadcast)
How has your relationship to alcohol changed since you had your first sip?

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Save The .... McDonald's? One Franchise In France Has Become A Social Justice Cause

Save The .... McDonald's? One Franchise In France Has Become A Social Justice Cause
McDonald's employees in Marseille are fighting to save their restaurant. For them, McD's isn't a capitalist giant; it's a vital community anchor in an under-resourced immigrant neighborhood.

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Could This Tree Be An Eco-Friendly Way To Wean Indonesian Farmers Off Palm Oil?

Could This Tree Be An Eco-Friendly Way To Wean Indonesian Farmers Off Palm Oil?
Palm oil plantations have led to widespread deforestation in Indonesia. But now some farmers are turning to a different crop — damar, a kind of anti-palm oil, grown in forest-based farms.

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Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good

Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good
The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to recover valuable genetic variation that was lost.

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Eat, Drink And Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key To Spycraft

Eat, Drink And Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key To Spycraft
"Restaurants and cafés are in many ways the lifeblood of espionage," says Amaryllis Fox in a new book. They're ideal places to clandestinely meet people with access to a government or terrorist group.

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As The Climate Warms, Companies Are Scrambling To Calculate The Risk To Their Profits

As The Climate Warms, Companies Are Scrambling To Calculate The Risk To Their Profits
Companies are trying to figure out the risks to their profits from a warming planet. Some of them are turning to high-tech tools of climate science.

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Eat, Drink And Be Wary: Ex-CIA Agent Reveals How Eateries Are Key To Spycraft

Eat, Drink And Be Wary: Ex-CIA Agent Reveals How Eateries Are Key To Spycraft
"Restaurants and cafés are in many ways the lifeblood of espionage," says Amaryllis Fox in her new book. They're ideal places to clandestinely meet people with access to a government or terror group.

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Instead Of Charging Per Drink, This St. Louis Bar Is Charging By The Hour

Instead Of Charging Per Drink, This St. Louis Bar Is Charging By The Hour
A new bar in St. Louis isn't charging by the drink, but by the hour. The all you can drink concept is raising concerns about excessive drinking. But two weeks in, the vibe is anything but wild.

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Grown At High Altitudes, Bolivia's Wines Are Rising Stars

Grown At High Altitudes, Bolivia's Wines Are Rising Stars
There's not a ton of room to grow grapes in Bolivia; many of its vineyards are located in mile-high mountain valleys and foothills. The country's wine output may be small, but it's winning big awards.

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When Life Gives You Avocados, Make Guacamole?

When Life Gives You Avocados, Make Guacamole?
That's what the Pokini family of Maui did after they won a Guinness record for the world's heaviest avocado. Most avocados weighs less than half a pound. The one they grew was more than 5.6 pounds.

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Idaho Farmers Worry Early Cold Could Ruin Potato Harvest

Idaho Farmers Worry Early Cold Could Ruin Potato Harvest
Idaho's potato industry — which supplies more than 30% of the country's spuds — is in jeopardy. Cold weather has hit the region and not all of the potatoes have been harvested.

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Tapping Into Minnesota’s Craft Beer Boom (Rebroadcast)

Tapping Into Minnesota’s Craft Beer Boom (Rebroadcast)
You can find cake-, lavender- and dill pickle-flavored beers in the North Star State.

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The Secret Behind A Popular Soup In Bangkok

The Secret Behind A Popular Soup In Bangkok
At one Bangkok eatery, there's a beef soup that's been simmering for 45 years. Customers from all over the world come for a taste.

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Why U.S. Cities Are Banning New Fast-Food Drive-Throughs

Why U.S. Cities Are Banning New Fast-Food Drive-Throughs
Most of the bans aim to curb emissions and protect pedestrians. The bans are also sometimes touted as a way to help fight obesity, but past studies suggest they don't have that effect.

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Flamin' Hot Cheetos Spark Interest At Los Angeles Airport

Flamin' Hot Cheetos Spark Interest At Los Angeles Airport
Agents grew suspicious at LAX when Emily Mei showed up for a flight with more than a dozen bags of Cheetos. One-by-one an agent inspected each of the bags. She was taking snacks to friends in Korea.

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Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood

Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood
Depression symptoms dropped significantly in a group of young adults who ate a Mediterranean-style diet for three weeks. It's the latest study to show food can influence mental health.

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The Past, Present And Future Of American Beer

The Past, Present And Future Of American Beer
"Beer is not the answer. Beer is not the question. Yes is the answer."

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Restaurants Would Get More Flexibility With Workers' Tips Under Proposed Rule

Restaurants Would Get More Flexibility With Workers' Tips Under Proposed Rule
The rule would allow employers to require waitstaff and others to share their tips with kitchen staff. But labor advocates say it could allow bosses to take advantage of their workers.

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Bostonians Lament Loss Of 137-Year-Old Pub And Its Trove Of History

Bostonians Lament Loss Of 137-Year-Old Pub And Its Trove Of History
Doyle's Café has been in business since 1882, but the owner is closing up shop later this month. Locals are portraying this as yet another nail in the coffin of Boston history and tradition.

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When Efforts To Eat 'Clean' Become An Unhealthy Obsession

When Efforts To Eat 'Clean' Become An Unhealthy Obsession
Whether it's gluten or dairy, many people avoid certain types of foods these days. Sometimes, food avoidance can take over people's lives and veer into an eating disorder.

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What It's Like To Harvest Seaweed

What It's Like To Harvest Seaweed
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro pays a visit to Larch Hanson, who has been harvesting wild seaweed in Maine for more than 40 years.

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How The Trade War Crushed A Growing Chinese Market For U.S. Cranberries

How The Trade War Crushed A Growing Chinese Market For U.S. Cranberries
The U.S. has spent millions to get China to embrace the unknown fruit — and it did. Now, tariffs have driven China to buy its cranberries from other countries, leaving U.S. farmers in the lurch.

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We're Pulling Tuna Out Of The Ocean At Unprecedented — And Unsustainable — Rates

We're Pulling Tuna Out Of The Ocean At Unprecedented — And Unsustainable — Rates
A new study finds that tuna harvests, including of some species considered "vulnerable," have increased by an astonishing 1,000% in the last 60 years — a rate some scientists warn is unsustainable.

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Pakistan Wants You To Know: Most Pink Himalayan Salt Doesn't Come From India

Pakistan Wants You To Know: Most Pink Himalayan Salt Doesn't Come From India
The salt has become trendy in the U.S. But Pakistan hasn't benefited much economically from that popularity. Now, Pakistan's government wants to trademark the salt and cash in.

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Irrigation For Farming Could Leave Many Of The World's Streams and Rivers Dry

Irrigation For Farming Could Leave Many Of The World's Streams and Rivers Dry
A new study shows many of the world's streams and rivers could dry up because people are draining underground aquifers that sustain streams through dry periods. Climate change won't help matters.

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Many Nutritionists Says Their Advice About Red Meat Remains Unchanged

Many Nutritionists Says Their Advice About Red Meat Remains Unchanged
New research on red meat contradicts the advice of major health groups. The controversial new study concludes that there's no need for people to cut back on eating red meat.

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