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Everyone says that communication is key when it comes to relationships. But some folks just don’t know how that works in the first place. So, what do you do?Well, having them deal with the consequences of their actions and flat out kicking them out of the family potluck is definitely an option. A person recently wondered if they’re a jerk for doing just that after asking numerous times for their son-in-law to stop bringing prank potluck dishes—but he never stopped.No matter how much you tell someone to knock it off, it…

If you’re ever on your lunch break in space, you might actually want to stay away from the salad. A team of scientists grew lettuce in a simulated microgravity environment on Earth and found that plants have a hard time protecting themselves against harmful bacteria in space.Modern Yet Retro | JBL Spinner BT ReviewSpace lettuce has been a hit on board the International Space Station (ISS), with astronauts tending to the leafy greens inside a space garden known as Veggie and even chewing on a patch of red leaf lettuce that…

The drive-thru entrance to a Salad and Go location.Source: Salad and GoWhen Sweetgreen went public two years ago, co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman said the salad chain aspired to be the "McDonald's of its generation."But another salad rival could beat Sweetgreen to the punch: Salad and Go.Founded in 2013, the upstart chain is nearing its publicly traded rival's store count, with more than 100 locations and counting. With backing from private equity firm Volt Investment, it has ambitious expansion plans for 2024 beyond…

In order to survive long trips to other planets, astronauts are going to have to eat more than just easily-stored TV dinners and ramen noodles. With that fact in mind, scientists recently created what they determined could be the ideal fresh-food meal for space travelers.The dish was formulated by an international team of scientists, led by Prof. Volker Hessel of the University of Adelaide.They utilized a process known as linear programming, in which different variables are balanced in order to reach a specific goal. That…

Do you hate salad? It's OK if you do, there are plenty of foods in the world, and lots of different ways to prepare them.But given almost all of us don't eat enough vegetables, even though most of us (81%) know eating more vegetables is a simple way to improve our health, you might want to try.If this idea makes you miserable, fear not, with time and a little effort you can make friends with salad.Why don't I like salads?It's an unfortunate quirk of evolution that vegetables are so good for us but they aren't all…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books Chef Janice Tiefenbach, writer Stephanie Mercier Voyer and sommelier Ryan Gray on creating a different kind of restaurant Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Published May 26, 2023  •  Last updated 13 minutes ago  •  6 minute read The authors of Salad Pizza Wine, from left to right: Marley Sniatowsky, Stephanie Mercier Voyer, Janice Tiefenbach and Ryan Gray. Photo by Dominique…

A gene-editing startup wants to help you eat healthier salads. This month, North Carolina–based Pairwise Plants is rolling out a new type of mustard greens engineered to be less bitter than the original plant. The vegetable is the first Crispr-edited food to hit the US market.Mustard greens are packed with vitamins and minerals but have a strong peppery flavor when eaten raw. To make them more palatable, they're usually cooked. Pairwise wanted to retain the health benefits of mustard greens but make them tastier to the…

The collective haze of gloom brought about by these past couple of weeks — heck, months — of cold and rainy weather finally seems to have eased, at least for now. Don’t get me wrong, I love a day of rain to stay in and watch TV while lying on the couch as a big pot of soup cooks on the stove. But after the 15th consecutive day, I’m a little over it.Most everyone else I’ve talked to recently is also very much over it, and now that the sun has finally come out, we’re all champing at the bit to be outside again, even if the…

If you’ve watched The Martian you know how difficult it is to grow food on Mars. Almost nothing about the Red Planet makes it a hospitable place for agriculture. Even if you could coax a plant to emerge out of the nutrient-bereft soil, it’s just a matter of time before the sproutlings succumb to either the freezing temperatures or a total lack of accessible water.Mark Watney—played by Matt Damon in the film—stays alive by eating potatoes grown in an airtight dome and fertilized with his own poop.Watney’s experiment has a…

Back in what now seems like the distant past – August – a biography of Liz Truss looked to be a well-timed book for the Tory shires Christmas market. Two of the maddest months in recent history later and Out of the Blue by the Sun’s political editor, Harry Cole, and James Heale of the Spectator became a joke social media meme, with a fake image showing the cover at a hugely knocked down price doing the rounds.You have to feel for the biographers, whose rushed book originally had the subtitle: “The inside story of Liz…