KFC’s Nashville hot chicken is a reddish-hued, cayenne-and-paprika-encrusted take on the dish invented at the city’s Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, which may be the only plywood-walled strip mall joint to win a James Beard award. Even the “medium” spiced chicken at Prin...

In January, the much respected British Medical Journal published a paper which aimed to test the success of the Mexican sugar excise tax, which had been levied on sugar-sweetened drinks.

The slice of bread we relish today has a history that dates back to nearly thirty thousand years. The earliest evidence of the making of bread was seen in ancient Egypt.

Food safety is spread throughout various departments and programs in the federal budget and the document President Obama proposed Tuesday for fiscal 2017 is no different. The policy wonks who know how the federal budgeteers work go to one place when they want to know how food safety is doing in t...

Food prices in the UK would not go up, should voters choose to leave the EU in the forthcoming referendum on membership, according to a leading agricultural economist, who claimed the implications of a Brexit were more political than economic.

Chef Neal Fraser served avocado soup and spicy meatballs at an event for ‘food influencers’ in LA – then revealed that all the ingredients came from McDonald’s

A well-known Los Angeles chef tricked a group of foodies with an elegant meal prepared entirely out of Mc...

Panic-stricken Vietnam has raised the bird flu alarm as two strains of avian influenza infect people in China.

Health and agriculture ministers in Vietnam are moving swiftly to increase the country's ability to cope with a possible outbreak of avian influenza (AI) after reports emerge of ...

3D printed meat production will become technically feasible and could create competition for traditional meat producers as consumers will ultimately be able to print their own meat products — although much research and development still remains, say American food academics.

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The global meat industry has moved to play down research that places processed meats as carcinogenic to humans on the same scale as alcohol and tobacco smoke.

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report, red meat was identified as "probably carcinogenic to h...