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Five Filipino Foods to Try Right Now

Food-trend followers are always looking for the next ethnic cuisine to bubble up into a trendy dining delight. Step aside Peru and Scandinavia, because the new hip dishes are coming from the Philippines.


The Friends of the Beacon Food Forest

Enjoying the Fruits of the Food Forest

Seattle's Beacon Food Forest is a community garden on a large scale, where volunteers staff the farm and the public is free to come and pick whatever they need.


Dessert Chefs Take on Dinner

There's a growing trend across the country of pastry chefs striking out on their own to helm full restaurants. We caught up with Jordan Khan of Red Medicine to learn how dessert techniques inform all his dishes.


Bon Appétit Foodist’s Edible (and Audible) Restaurant Trends for 2013

"Foodist" Andrew Knowlton has sipped and supped his way across the country, seeking out the best and buzziest new restaurants. He gives us a report on trends he discovered along the way -- like what material's being used for bars, now that all wood has been reclaimed.


Panuzzo: The New Pizza?

A restaurant in Los Angeles is reviving the panuzzo - and this new way to combine dough, cheese, and fillings might be your new Italian obsession.


Puffer Guns and Cereal Cannons

In 1902, a scientist had a grain of an idea: a gun that would take the tiny bit of moisture within a rice or other grains, turn it to steam, and "puff" that grain up into a crispy precursor to the contents of a modern cereal box. A group seeking to establish a museum of food and drink, showed off a historical grain cannon at a recent Brooklyn event.


Bugs Invade Energy Bars

Earth's population continues to increase - while resources like open land, for cattle grazing, disappear. How do we feed millions of hungry humans around the world? One idea: protein bars made from cricket flour.


The Hip Herring

New-catch Holland herring is a special little fish and a seasonal treat for seals and humans alike. Niki Russ Federman of Manhattan's landmark seafood seller Russ & Daughters is the third generation of the family running this so-called "house that herring built," making her uniquely qualified to talk about this slippery delicacy.