Extend the shelf life of tortillas using fungal amylases.
Tortilla producers represent about 20% of the food market in Mexico, with annual sales of about $4 billion. Annual production totals more than 10 million tons, of which a little more than 20% is produced from maize flour. A variety of additives are used in tortilla manufacturing, including polycarboxylic...

Elite women workers and collective action: the cigarette makers of Gijon, 1890-1930.
On May 2, 1898, the Spanish industrial city of Gijon witnessed perhaps the most dramatic riot in its history, when thousands of angry consumers took to the streets in protest against an unpopular food tax. Adding to the drama was the fact that the protest was instigated and carried...

Pizza - the edible plate.
What's your favorite kind of food? Good old American hot dogs and hamburgers? Or maybe you like. Greek foods, such as gyros and pizza. Pizza? Greek? Well, believe it or not, pizza was actually invented by the Greeks. The early Greeks turned their bread into a main course by...

What the doctor orders.
By treating risky behavior like a communicable disease, the public health establishment invites government to meddle in our private lives. In the introduction to the first major American book on public health, U.S. Army surgeon John S. Billings explained the field's concerns: "Whatever can cause, or help to cause,...

Pizza--The Edible Plate.
What's your favorite kind of food? Good old American hot dogs and hamburgers? Or maybe you like Greek foods, such as gyros and pizza. Pizza? Greek? Yes, believe it or not, pizza was actually invented by the Greeks! The early Greeks turned their bread into a main...

A walk through a health food store.
On the outside, it looked like any other food store. Stacks of newspapers cluttered the pathway to the front entrance. Women juggled brown bags and crying kids as they searched for their car keys. The shopping cart I grabbed even had that one rebellious wheel that insisted on sticking....

Bagels vs. traffic jam.
Doron Taussig's review of my book Who's Your City? chastises me for not helping him figure out whether the "satisfaction of feeling at home in a bagel store outweighs a 50 percent drop in commuting time." What the book says is that I cannot tell him or anyone else...

Good deal.
THE PLACE Sweet Talk Cafe, 2704 Stickney Point Road, Sarasota (in Gateway Center); closed Monday; (941) 923-1467. THE FARE Brazilian deli and bakery goodies, with an emphasis on fresh house-made pastries both sweet and savory. Enjoy the latter with coffee for a change...

Provisional report of Elies Santapau's sprint.
The chronicler--on most accounts extremely meticulous, quite particular when it comes to details about events being described--regrets having to confess that at present he is still unable to establish with irrefutable accuracy the precise hour this story began. That is to say, the exact moment when Elies Santapau bolted...

From this side of the cloister.
It was a house in carrer del Castell. The door was made from salvaged pieces of wood, from an old wagon, maybe. The bits were set vertically and right at the top there was one going across that didn't fit properly. At the bottom, on the left, was the...