This essay is excerpted from Cake Zine’s fourth volume, “Tough Cookie.” Cake Zine is an independent print publication exploring society through sweets. Off the coast of New Zealand, the back of nearly every blue whale is dimpled with milky white constellations of scars from prior cookie-cutter shark bites. Occasionally, very occasionally, people become cookies, too: On separate occasions in 2019, …
The delicious world of fruits includes mild-tasting, temperate varieties, growing on plants and trees that are not under constant assault from pests or competitive pressure from nearby plants and weeds, as well as the intense, multi-sensory experience tropical fruits. Jacob says some of the mangosteen trees in Kerala are over a hundred years old; the wealthy plantation owners in these …
It's time to break out the fava beans and a nice Chianti, Clarice! While one could culture meat from cells taken by a self-administered cheek swab, the team instead used research cells from the American Tissue Culture Collection. The makers of a 'DIY meal kit' for growing steaks cultured from human cell samples have offered the reassurance that the concept …
