Monday, December 19, 2011 - 7:33am
Star Wars gingerbread AT-ATs not your cup of tea? How about Harry Potter? This is one gingerbread house that would turn wizard and witch heads.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 11:18am
If the AT-AT dog costume can take Halloween by storm, we're betting this uber-cool gingerbread AT-AT will take Christmas down faster than a shield generator.
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 12:53pm
Meat is delicious. And it should be, since we're all natural omnivores.* But there are plenty of good reasons not to eat meat, first and foremost being that chickens and cows and piggies are cute. Meat grown in a petri dish might just be able to make everyone full and happy, as long as we can afford it: the first lab-grown burger will cost a third of a million dollars.
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 3:47pm
The Army's MREs (Meals, Ready-to-Eat) have a bit of a bad rap, as you might expect from any food products that have been engineered to remain edible and nutritious after three years in the desert and a thousand foot parachute drop. But the Army has put some work into them recently, adding in things like caffeinated beef jerky and something called "zapplesauce."
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 10:37pm
The FDA is getting ready to approve the very first animal that has been genetically modified specifically to be eaten by humans.
Monday, September 12, 2011 - 2:14pm
Cooking takes too much time and effort. If only there was a way to hit a button and have food print out of a machine! Well, that's actually not so crazy an idea.
Friday, September 2, 2011 - 10:29am
It may not take us a long time to get to Mars, but on the off-chance that it does take several years for humans to get there and back, we're gonna need a bunch of food along the way. NASA's been thinking about it, and they've got some menu ideas.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 2:45pm
Back in June, Jonathan Kaplan, creator of the now retired Flip camera, announced that he was moving on to curdier pastures with The Melt, a chain of grilled cheese restaurants. Not just any grilled cheese sandwiches though — he hit up the fine folks at Electrolux to design him the perfect press.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 9:44am
Everybody likes the taste of organic, farm-fresh food, but in dense urban areas, large-scale agriculture isn't really an option. A Dutch design firm has come up with a concept for a rooftop greenhouse ecosystem that produces food so efficiently that installing them on top of buildings in NYC could feed the majority of people living there.
Friday, July 15, 2011 - 11:17am
After several millennia of eating them, it seems like animals just aren't good enough for us anymore. First it was cows getting tweaked to produce human milk, and now, there's a war on gelatin that might end with tasty snacks like Jell-O getting their ingredients from human gelatin instead. Mmmmm, human Jell-O.
