Read 2022 Gastro Stories

Welcome the Year of the Dragon with fortune-telling soups, lucky goldfish dumplings, and more.

New Zealand regulations prevent the sacred beverage of the Pacific Islands from being watered down.

A new study produced the ideal "space salad" for long-term astronauts, and it's surprisingly delicious.

Inside a group that's spent 25 years turning beets into beats.

Long before the Stanley cup craze, people were showing off with trendy drinking vessels.

And had some pretty bad oral health.

A 13th-century Arabic cookbook reveals the culinary life of al-Andalus.

What's in a name?

The sacred scraps were meant to be ingested.

In the state of Colima, one man is reviving vino de cocos, a distillate that disappeared in the 1700s.

Add something extra to your baking.

From Algerian sweets to Tunisian snacks to a mind-altering ham sandwich, go beyond the tropes and the tourist traps on this itinerary.

The gorkon is a marvel of heat retention that's at risk of disappearing.

The 18th Amendment had some unexpected side effects, from alcohol prescriptions to the rise of NASCAR.

Don't just throw out your tree; use it to spruce up your cocktails, stews, and more.

Artist Sergey Jivetin engraves incredibly detailed works using a microscope.

Make some room on your bookshelf.

Feast on real-life zombie fungus and tiger tail ice cream.