Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months ago • 18 views • 6:56

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56

Can salt improve a good coffee? What about a bad coffee? Let's find out!

posted by Zawash 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 9:39

YouTube description: Cheese is delicious, beloved by many, and a teeming mess of microbes. Which microbes, exactly, has long been a mystery, but modern DNA sequencing tech is allowing researchers to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 weeks ago • 241 views • 6:38

YouTube description: Canned fish has been around for over a century and has been enjoyed around world. Still, no one loves their fish more than Portugal, where old traditions of fishing, canning and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 451 views • 3:30

"Gross and mean!" YouTube: If gulls just stole some of your chips while you were out trying to enjoy your lunch, you should feel lucky, because one species has recently developed a taste for live mammal... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months ago • 43 views • 4:08

Bill nominates, perhaps only provocatively, James Bosnack's cigarette machine as the invention with the greatest economic impact on the 20th century. Cigarettes, as compared to pipes and cigars, are and... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 7 years 3 weeks ago • 90 views • 2:41

YouTube description: Epicurious challenged cheese expert and noted author Liz Thorpe to guess which one of two cheeses was more expensive. Liz breaks down cheap vs expensive parmesan cheese, goat cheese,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,451 views • 11:20

The history of eating one's fellow man is rich with culinary tradition and innovation, carried on in no small part by Dr. Hannibal Lecter. In this pivotal scene, he gives a fellow killer a taste of his... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 98 views • 6:42

Now I really want to go and make my own (small!) batch of seeded mustard. I have all the ingredients in my cupboard, too. YouTube description: Mustard has been around for ages, but today's chefs... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 45 views • 5:51

I compare a sample of heavy oxygen water to heavy hydrogen water.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 69 views • 11:43

In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 2 weeks ago • 100 views • 6:27

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas [no I'm not] YouTube: This episode Nellie Benner snorts a white crystalline powder: Cocaine. The active substance is cocaine hydrochloride and has a stimulating effect... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 318 views • 10:35

"Like the baby Jesus tip toeing down me throat in a pair of slippers!" Irish Poitín (Moonshine) was outlawed in the 1600s and recently, legal versions of the drink have come on the market. These vary... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 370 views • 4:16

YouTube: At some point, you’ve probably learned about the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. However, the classic list doesn't account for all the sensations we experience and use to... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 571 views • 4:34

YouTube: What is the difference between brand name and generic products? AsapTHOUGHT TASTE TEST: https://youtu.be/rYmon9AO1os

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 915 views • 3:30

YouTube: Hate the taste of sour stuff? Well fret no more with this miracle berry! It will coat your tongue with an awesome protein to make everything taste sweet!

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 308 views • 2:59

The Sweet Potato Council's own Head Honcho, 'You Got Him', is up on his tuber history by gum! YouTube: The reason "yams" and sweet potatoes taste the same to Americans is because they are the same.... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 153 views • 2:10

YouTube: Cooked food smells and tastes great but how did we evolve to love cooked foods over raw foods?

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 months ago • 461 views • 5:35