In the glossy, glistening world of celebrity chefs, the 36-year-old food revolutionary stands out for doing well by doing good. But will that be enough to transform our basic biology?
A simple question with no easy answers: What was “paleo” diet? And even if experts know what cavemen ate, what can our ancestral diet tell us about eating better today?
Pickle juice has a reputation for curing hangovers, easing sunburns, and alleviating muscle cramps. The drink’s provides a shock and that just might explain its effects.
The best way to shuck a lobster? 87,000 pounds of water. A piece for Wired on hyperbaric pressure processing (Warning: contents under extremely high pressure).
A couple doors down from the Lafayette, a now-demolished building in downtown Detroit, I squeeze into Lafayette Coney Island and take a swivel seat.
Even uncured, “nitrate-free” meats contain nitrates. So do many raw vegetables. And these chemicals probably aren’t the most compelling reason to pass up a hot dog.