Humans have been snapping pics of their plates for over 160 years—and photos of meals have revealed a lot about the people gathered at the table.

"Severe child food poverty" is on the rise, affecting 181 million young kids. Here's how families cope when their kids are hungry and they can't afford to put 3 nutritious meals a day on the table.

It can sometimes seem that the way kids are taught about Thanksgiving, a staple of American education for about 150 years, is stuck in the past; an elementary school in Mississippi, for example ...

Veteran food critic Florence Fabricant has called peanut butter “the pâté of childhood.” Dan Saelinger. North Americans weren't the first to grind peanuts—the Inca beat us to it by a few ...

Donna Battle Pierce’s family recipe collection. Photo by Donna Battle Pierce/Black America Cooks. In his book, The Cooking Gene, Twitty explores these complexities, while sharing how his personal ...

Now on display at the National Museum of American History, the Crock Pot once cooked the Pennsylvania-based family’s favorite meals, like halushki, a hearty Polish dish of cabbage, onion, garlic ...