Food Geek: Quinoa’s Growing Pains

There’s been a recent flood of articles about quinoa and the effects its popularity has had…

Food Geek: The Science of Hangovers

There's nothing like learning firsthand about the metabolic process of ethanol absorption to ruin a night…

Food Geek: Water of Life

My love affair with whiskey has its origins, like whiskey itself, in Scotland.

Food Geek: In Sickness and Health

Q: How many alternative medicine advocates does it take to cure cancer? A: IT WON’T WORK…

Book Review: A Game for Swallows

Encounter a Lebanese civil war memoir filled personal experiences, visual and narrative metaphor, and striking artwork…

Food Geek: Tastefully Impoverished

Do you need a fat wallet to eat well in Chicago?

Food Geek: Adventures in Entomophagy

Have you eaten a bug...on purpose? Panko-encrusted? Sea salt studded? Smoked? Fricasseed? How about with a…

Food Geek: Biotechnology and Future Nausea

What we eat and the way we eat it: these things lie in an uneasy crossroads…

Take Your Date Here: Vera

Advice to the lonely-hearted: if you’re lucky enough to snag a date, take them to Vera,…