Remains of the earliest known feast in a cave in Israel show that humans have been bringing food to funerals for millennia and suggest that burial feasts may have helped shape modern society, researchers said on Monday. They found the remains of cooked tortoises and wild cattle called aurochs alongside the grave of a high-status woman, [...]
Whole Foods, the organic and natural foods supermarket trendsetter, turns 30 on Sept. 20. It has been widely imitated in style and concept. Its pricing has garnered it the pop culture nickname “Whole Paycheck.” The relatively tiny chain, which has 300 units in 38 states, has had a cultural impact more akin to that of Starbucks, which has more than 11,000 U.S. locations. [...]
Last century’s cash crops included tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane. Now we have magic cauliflower and super berries, too–and even though they can’t be sold at market, some people still toil from dawn to dusk cultivating them. People spend not just real time but also real money growing these crops in virtual farming games that [...]
