Cuisines

In this frame from video, packets of instant noodles sit on display in the Cup Noodles Museum in Yokohama, Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Ramen noodles originated in China and exemplify the creativity and openness to foreign influences of the host country of the 2020 Olympic Games (AP Photo/John Leicester)

Rice pizza, noodle ices: Food shows Japan's punk rock soul

By John Leicester Aug. 07, 2021 08:09 PM EDT

UVM Food Systems Research Center gets $11M in federal funds

Jun. 19, 2021 04:01 PM EDT
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The University of Vermont Food Systems Research Center is getting $11 million in federal funding to support its work researching the...

Molly Yeh poses for a portrait at SOBE WFF® on Saturday, May 22, 2021, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)

Chef Molly Yeh's lockdown life full of recipes, baby firsts

By Kelli Kennedy Jun. 07, 2021 08:47 AM EDT

Syrian refugee Raed Mattar, 24, works on his tent, at an informal refugee camp, in the town of Rihaniyye in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, April 8, 2021. For many Syrian refugee families in Lebanon, Ramadan comes as a hard life of displacement has gotten even harder after a pandemic year that deepened economic woes in their host country. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Delights of Ramadan disappear for Syrian refugees in Lebanon

By Sarah El Deeb And Mariam Fam Apr. 18, 2021 02:09 AM EDT

WHO urges pause in market sale of captured live wild animals

Apr. 13, 2021 04:25 AM EDT
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations' health agency on Tuesday urged countries to suspend the sale of live animals captured from the wild in food markets as an...

A nurse talks to a woman that is about to get inoculated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Berta Calderon hospital in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Nicaragua has started the second phase of its vaccination program with 60-year-old persons now being inoculated. (AP Photo/Gabriela Selser)

Nicaragua slowly begins vaccinations for people over 60

Apr. 08, 2021 05:17 PM EDT

Volunteer Dave Williams pours in rice to cook as members of the Preston Windrush Covid Response team prepare West Indian meals, at the Xaverian Sanctuary, in Preston, England, Friday Feb. 19, 2021. Once a week, chief coordinator Glenda Andrew and her team distribute meals to people in Preston and surrounding communities in northwestern England that have recorded some of the U.K.’s highest coronavirus infection rates. The meal program grew out of Andrew’s work with Preston Windrush Generation & Descendants, a group organized to fight for the rights of early immigrants from the Caribbean and other former British colonies who found themselves threatened with deportation in recent years. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

One Good Thing: A taste of the islands makes lockdown easier

By Danica Kirka Mar. 04, 2021 07:27 AM EST

Delivery riders gather to protest outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid, Wednesday March 3, 2021. Food delivery workers have staged protests across Spain, urging the government to approve a promised law granting them the right to choose between being company staff or self-employed. Media reports said more than 2,000 delivery riders gathered to protest in at least 10 Spanish cities on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Spanish food delivery riders want right to be self-employed

Mar. 03, 2021 11:02 AM EST

This photo provided by Brittney Caldera shows, from left to right, Oregon Health & Science University nurses Nick Greenwood, Callie Harling, Derrell Wheeler and Orion Meredith as they eat a meal delivered to the hospital's frontline COVID-19 health care workers in a break room, Jan. 10, 2021, at Oregon Health & Science University, in Portland, Ore. The program that provided the meals, funded by a grant from an Oregon-based insurance fund, recently expired but the hospital is hoping for new donations to reboot it as COVID-19 variants could cause a new surge of cases. (Brittney Caldera via AP)

Hard-hit restaurants feed COVID doctors, nurses to survive

By Gillian Flaccus Feb. 11, 2021 10:13 AM EST

An outdoor seating area is seen at the NOLA Art Bar in New Orleans, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. DJ Johnson’s business — NOLA Art Bar — opened just six weeks before the pandemic-related shutdowns last March. It's been a struggle, but he’s still open nearly a year later. (AP Photo/Dorthy Ray)

Virus dims Carnival joy and commerce on a New Orleans street

By Rebecca Santana Feb. 10, 2021 01:08 AM EST

Copies of Dorah Sitole's cook book "40 Years of Iconic Food", seen at centre, in Exclusive Books in Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. South Africa's pioneer Black food writer Sitole, portrait on cover, who quietly defied apartheid to win respect and a readership for African cuisine, died of COVID-19, in Jan. 2021. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

South Africa's trailblazing Black food writer dies of virus

By Mogomotsi Magome Jan. 19, 2021 03:37 AM EST

Police patrol along the M20 motorway where freight traffic is halted whilst the Port of Dover remains closed, in Ashford, Kent, England, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and people were left stranded at airports as dozens of countries around the world slapped tough travel restrictions on the U.K. because of a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus in England. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

France relaxes its ban on trucks entering from Britain

By Pan Pylas Dec. 22, 2020 04:52 AM EST

This cover image released by Voracious shows "Book Story: The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food," by Marcus Samuelsson. The book has 150 recipes from two dozen top Black chefs and includes profiles of each. (Voracious via AP)

Chef Marcus Samuelsson celebrates the variety of Black food

By Mark Kennedy Nov. 02, 2020 08:10 AM EST

NH warns of possible virus exposure at 3 establishments

Oct. 25, 2020 11:22 AM EDT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire health officials are advising people who went to several establishments across the state to get tested for the coronavirus...

Annual Democratic Steak Fry fundraiser moves to drive-in

Aug. 12, 2020 12:18 PM EDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A signature annual fundraiser for the Polk County Democratic Party in Iowa will see a major change next month in the wake of a global...