A] blackened redfish fillet is not just a symbol of Louisiana cuisine, but the dish that made Cajun cooking a worldwide sensation,” writes Boyce Upholt, noting that the dish’s rise in the 1980s ...

Louisiana’s coastline is a river delta, formed by the Mississippi over millennia as its current slowed and relinquished its mud into a calm and sheltered gulf. In the back-and-forth contest ...

By Theodore Ross A lot of excitement at FERN’s virtual HQ this week when we released the trailer for “FORKED: Food politics in the MAHA age.” The premiere episode will drop July ...

Grange halls, like the one in the Anderson Valley in California’s Mendocino County, have been around for more than 150 years. The Grange began as a fraternal organization for ...

By Theodore Ross The James Beard Media Awards are one of the most prestigious honors out there for folks like us at FERN, who make journalism about food and the environment. That’s why it is such ...

Grange halls, like the one in the Anderson Valley in California’s Mendocino County, have been around for more than 150 years. The Grange began as a fraternal organization for ...

My two-week visit was bookended by a pair of annual mushroom festivals, scheduled to align with what was supposed to be peak mushroom season. At the beginning of my trip was the Yachats Mushroom ...

In May of 2024, the owners of Mary Mahoney’s, an institution in Biloxi, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to fraudulently selling more than 29 tons of fish between December 2013 and November 2019, claiming ...

Photo by Mary Anne Andrei. JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, had a problem at its plant in Greeley, Colorado, in late 2023: It was short on workers, with openings for about 60 people to do the ...

The USDA traditionally shuts down its weekly Crop Progress report at the end of November because the growing season is over and the fall harvest is all but complete in most states. But this year, the ...