Food & Drink

If the legislation gets the needed approval votes, it would be the second district-wide ban, making food trucks illegal in most of the Northeast.

Some 11 million deaths annually are linked to diet-related diseases like diabetes and heart disease. Researchers say that makes diet the leading risk for deaths globally.

Farmers can no longer use antibiotics to make cattle grow faster. Overall, their use of these drugs is down. But farmers can give antibiotics to treat or prevent disease.

The political uncertainty comes as food wholesalers begin to switch from Mexican suppliers to local sources, which is usually a gradual 6- to 8-week process.

Called Captain Crab and Seafood, the eatery near Newark, Delaware, will be one of the nation’s first to use robots to greet, seat and wait on diners.

Chow. Nibbles. Grub. Food — we relate to it in a lot of different ways. It can serve as nourishment, as pleasure, as fuel for our bodie ...

Eating disorder supports are often expensive and not culturally inclusive. As a result, communities of color are building their own opportunities for healing.

Cut way back on red meat, say scientists, who came up with a controversial diet recommended for our health, and the planet’s.

Your brain responds to the sweet treat using the same pleasure pathway addictive drugs use, new research shows.

The nation's leading group of kids' doctors has endorsed a range of strategies designed to curb children's consumption — including taxes on sugary drinks and marketing limits.

Nostalgia over its Philly identity isn’t enough to maintain sales, a food-industry observer says. That’s why Tastykake is launching products to entice new consumers.

Insurance companies don’t cover most meal plans — because there’s not enough research to prove they should.

For certain snappers, in fact, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this can be dire.

Farmers aren't producing enough to keep up with the number of smaller markets that keep popping up, often in close proximity to others.

In 2011, its economic impact on the state was just over $1 billion. By 2017, that figure grew to more than $6 billion.