The foodie craze has brought about a delicious abundance of latke varieties - sweet potato, beet, turnip, just to name a few.  For most, the assumption is that this is a new trend, inspired by a generation that treats food with great interest, as a pretty serious hobby...

Garbage Isle is twice the size of Texas, ways 88,000 tons, consists of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, and is quickly growing (https://weather.com/news/news/2018-03-23-great-pacific-garbage-patch-twice-size-of-texas).  Estimates suggest that between 20 and 30 million i...

What's the deal with Kosher cheese? If you ask the average Kosher keeping Jew, as I've done with regularity over the last few years, you get many different sorts of responses, even from very learned Jews. "The Rav (referring to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik) ate Kraft c...