NPR.com:Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his final voyage to the New World some 500 years ago. It took a while for Europeans to embrace the taste — one 16th-century Spanish missionary called the chocolate that indigenous people drank "loathsome.
BBC Mundo: Parece que últimamente México entero se ha unido respecto a una cosa que, por primera vez, no es ni fútbol ni la última telenovela de éxito.Los mexicanos están pensando en lo mismo, ya en la mesa, cuando van al mercado o en el trabajo.
WSJ.com: Make room Spain and Korea, Peru is having its moment in the gastronomic sun. Yesterday, a crew of the culinary world's leading lights, including Denmark's René Redzepi, France's Michel Bras and America's Dan Barber began descending on Lima for a star-studded food festival.
BBC: From costing a couple of dollars per kilo earlier this year, avocados went on a constant price climb which appeared to know no end - rising all the way up to $5-6 per kilo. I heard of sightings of a kilo of avocados for more than $8.
En los últimos meses los pabellones de pediatría del Hospital Nacional Nicolasa Cruz de Jalapa, Guatemala, están llenos de niños muy delgados, débiles y enfermos.
NPR: The heart of chili pepper country in southern New Mexico is the tiny village of Hatch, which bills itself the "Chile Capital of the World." A new state law aims to protect this food heritage by preventing foreign peppers from being labeled as New Mexico-grown.
Eturbnonews.com: Colombia’s beautiful Coffee Region, or properly deemed the Café Triangle, was initially nominated to become a UNESCO World Heritage site in January 2010.
New York Times: What will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits? The need is indisputable, since heart disease, diabetes and cancer are all in large part caused by the Standard American Diet. (Yes, it’s SAD.
USA Today: National chains, including Wal-Mart, Walgreens and SuperValu, and some regional retailers have agreed to open or expand more than 1,500 stores to bring more nutritious and fresh food to underserved communities.
CNN: You think you're being smart when, in an effort to eat more healthfully, you check a restaurant's website to see how many calories are in a dish you plan to order. It turns out perhaps that effort isn't worth as much as you think.