Among the many things New Yorkers pride ourselves on is food: making it, selling it and consuming only the best, from single-slice pizza to four-star sushi. We have fish markets, Shake Shacks and, as of this year, 74 Michelin-starred restaurants.

The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry

Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the e...

Guided by the findings of an in-depth University of California survey, UC President Janet Napolitano has approved $3.3 million in new funding over the next two years to help students regularly access nutritious food on campus and off, UC announced today.

Chick-fil-A is giving away free food on Tuesday, and you don't even have to dress up in a full-blown cow costume to get some. Well, unless you're into that kind of thing. 

The fried chicken sandwich purveyor is handing out free meals at its more than 2,000 restaurants nationwide on J...

The past 12 months have not been easy for Chipotle Mexican Grill.

Following a food safety scare last year in which hundreds of people fell ill after eating Chipotle products contaminated with E. coli bacteria or noroviruses, the company — which has long advertised its fresh, high-qu...

FSA identifies myths preventing people from freezing food, as households throw away 7 million tonnes of food a year

Chole bhature is street food as street theatre.

Chole is a spicy chickpea curry and comes accompanied with a very special kind of fried bread called bhature, and that's where the spectacle comes in.

The dish originated in the proud north Indian state of Punjab, but is now so popul...

Every time I pick up an Archie comic, I always see that Jughead Jones winning himself a lifetime supply of hamburgers. Though I've yet to see an actual person get themselves that deal in real life. Turns out there's a Burger chain in Melbourne that will do exactly that.

Despite the central role of food in our lives, research has done little to discover how food concepts are organized in our brain. A review carried out at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste sorts out the knowledge gained so far, relating it to the current theories of ...