Marian L. Tupy is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where Gale L. Pooley is an adjunct scholar. With one big family-gathering meal out of the way and more soon to come (Christmas? New Year’s?

The share of Americans reporting trouble affording food is rising this year amid persistently high grocery costs, according to a recent report from Purdue University. Roughly 14% of U.S. households ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the ...

How Americans fill their shopping carts at the grocery store is partly driven by prices. About six-in-ten U.S. adults say food costs are extremely or very important to them when deciding what food to ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ eating behaviors and priorities. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,123 U.S. adults from Feb. 24 to March 2, 2025. Everyone who took ...

The Food and Drug Administration is phasing out the use of artificial dyes by the end of next year. The policy change will hit food and drink companies like PepsiCo, General Mills and WK Kellogg. The ...

One-third of all food in America is wasted leads to billions of dollars lost each year, according to a new Gallup survey on the state of food waste in America. Until now, researchers have known little ...

Heath has been a culinary editor at Food Network for over five years, where she writes instructional cooking articles and creates recipes that are low maintenance with big flavor. She’s a trained chef ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rai covers food history, home cooking, and culinary tourism. As 2024 comes to a close, it’s instinctive to peer around the corner ...

Our favorite food shows aren’t just about food—they’re about the stories and people who make the kitchen feel like a stage. Whether it’s the cortisol-raising drama of a cooking competition or the ...