Conscious Consumption

Is the future of beer manufacturing a robot that is probably also a real fun pal?

The grains you see at your average grocery store are just the tip of the silo. Have you ever had freekeh, or amaranth, teff? If not – or if you’re unsure of what to do with exotic-sounding grains like these – Maria Speck is here to show you the way.

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The Fruit Hunters , a 2012 documentary by Montreal filmmaker Yung Chang based on the book of the same name by Adam Leith Gollner, is now streaming on Netflix. It’s the kind of documentary that explores an obscure fascination – it illuminates and celebrates something that most of us view as everyday, standard fare.

Finally, the bond between sheep and man gets its own movie.

How to choose the right poop and put it to good use.

It could hop-pen to be a bunny, or possibly a pig. Eight choices, one correct answer. Get it right and you'll be entered to win!

In many ways, pigs are much like us. In this way, they are not.