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The real reason parents who would die for their children are comfortable feeding them from boxes and drive-thrus isn't due to a lack of love or concern. It's because society has been so firmly and conclusively duped into believing that doing so is both safe and healthful that it has become our new normal.

A bit of pink in pork appears to be OK after all. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is lowered its temperature recommendation for cooking pork to 145 degrees.

From our friends at Food52.com comes this collection of last-minute Valentine's Day dinner menus, with tips on how to successfully pull them together. For more Valentine's Day recipes, cocktails and wine recommendations, check out the related links below the menus.Get cooking!

Neanderthals cooked and ate plants and vegetables, a new study of their remains reveals.

After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.

Chinese call it "gutter oil" — a foul slop fished up from sewage drains or collected at restaurant back doors — and it's being used widely in the country's eateries.

For cancer patients, nutrition is important, but many find that they are too tired to cook, nauseated to eat or the food tastes bad.

Gourmet, a magazine of almost biblical status in the food world, and three other titles will be shuttered in a cost-cutting move.

A woman has demanded a divorce from her husband who repeatedly defecated in the family cooking pots.

Almost 48 years after it was first published, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" by Julia Child is finally topping the best-seller list, bringing with it all the butter, salt and goose fat that home chefs had largely abandoned in the age of Lipitor.