Food & Drink

A new report exposes the gaps in the current food safety system, which recently has been put under strain during the government shutdown.

New Wawa stores are popping up all over Philly, including its biggest ever in Old City. Why the renewed focus on the city? And how is the hoagie-eating public responding?

The government shutdown limits the seasonal beers brewers can bring to market in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware

 An estimated 1.8 million low-income Pennsylvanians currently receive the benefits.

The state's dairy industry hopes you find power in the more than 1,000-pound butter sculpture at this year's Pennsylvania Farm Show.

Using radio frequencies to pasteurize eggs makes them safe for use in recipes calling for raw or partially cooked eggs.

The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Christmas Eve tradition started more than a century ago by Italian-Americans.

USDA could make it harder for Pa. SNAP recipients to keep year-round benefits

More work by a prominent food researcher has been retracted because of problems with the data.

People who experience discrimination firsthand struggle with hunger twice as often as others.

Bubbly water purveyors say “a good seltzer should hurt.” The acidity in carbonated drinks lights up the pain receptors in nerve endings — in a way that pleases the tongue.

The Cape May County Board of Freeholders is the latest legislative body to support a program that would allow the New Jersey fishing indu ...

After a bike ride down the Mississippi, Devi Lockwood set out to record water stories on every continent. Here are two: one from Afghanistan, the other from China.

Dogs who drink toilet water are a health risk to themselves and maybe to the entire family.

Lankenau's Wellness Farm yields thousands of pounds of produce for distribution to patients at no charge.