The Life and Wanderings of Chef Andy Ricker We go deep with the award-winning chef, restaurateur, and bestselling author whose popular Pok Pok restaurants helped introduce Northern Thai cuisine to the United States.
The Story of Mosul Q&A with Cengiz Yar Documentary photographer Cengiz Yar discusses his nine-year project documenting Mosul and the so-called war on terror’s long-term effect on the northern Iraqi city
A Model Farm in the Yucatán: Q&A with Gonzalo Samaranch Mestiza de Indias is an innovative, Maya-inspired regenerative farm in the middle of a region threatened by mass tourism and overdevelopment. Its founder has a lot to say about why food matters.
Transfarmation: From factory farm to sustainable enterprise Transfarmation is an organization helping former factory farmers move from debt-laden, environmentally damaging practices toward a sustainable future. Transfarmation is a finalist for the 2024 Food Planet Prize.
Dispatched by Anthony Bourdain Each of these deeply reported features takes readers on a deep dive into unsolved crimes, underground scenes, and unsung heroes in this Anthony Bourdain-curated, Beard-award-winning longform series. From a murder in South Africa's winelands to a personal account of life, death and Mother Ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon, explore the favorite R&K dispatches chosen by our late partner and editor-at-large Anthony Bourdain. View the Series
Building a Global Mangrove Movement Mangrove ecosystems provide community livelihoods, function as biodiversity hotspots, and help mitigate the effects of climate change, but efforts to protect them have been patchy and localized. A few organizations have banded together to change that. Read More
Making Waste Less Wasteful In rural British Columbia, Catalyst Agri-Innovations Society is harnessing the power of poop.
The Good Food Encyclopedia The team behind the Consupedia app are on a mission to create a more transparent and sustainable food industry, armed with a database of 250,000 products. With only a barcode scan, it tells consumers how sustainable and ethical their food choices are.
A Cold Room for a Warming World A Nigerian start-up takes on the problem of food spoilage at all steps of the production chain, one solar-powered cold room at a time.
Planting the Future Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, an organization called Yakum is seeding a better, cleaner, greener future for the indigenous Siekopai
The Light Fantastic New Zealand startup BioLumic is producing radically healthier and more productive crops, simply by exposing them to novel “recipes” of UV light
A Beginning Where Others See an End How a 141-year old waste management company is pioneering the recycling—rather than mining—of phosphorus and other resources we need to keep feeding the world.
From South Africa, a WonderBag for the Future The WonderBag is a slow-cooker designed to reduce cooking time, fuel use, and carbon emissions. It also lightens the load for women in countries where open-fire cooking and hours of unpaid labor daily falls to them.