Philly! It's less than three hours from downtown Washington by car and the fifth location to make food critic Tom Sietsema's list of America's Best Food Cities. He's got five more to go, then he'll rank his findings. Think you can figure out the final five? Well, not even Tom is sure what they'll be.
Other highlights in Food this week: Emily Horton spends years developing the perfect recipe for ratatouille and reveals all; Unearthed columnist Tamar Haspel explains why food and philosophy don't mix; and we remind you that the clock is ticking: The deadline to enter the 2015 Top Tomato recipe contest is Sunday at midnight. Read More...
Three students from James Madison University died and two of their classmates were critically injured when their vehicle veered off a West Virginia road and struck a tree, authorities said Friday.
The single-vehicle crash occurred around 10:30 p.m. Thursday on Route 259 near the Virginia line, according to the Hardy County sheriff’s office. Road conditions were dry, the sky was clear and there were no skid marks or signs of a collision with another vehicle or animal, the sheriff’s office said. Read More...
This summer, a panel of genetics experts did something surprising: they put out a list of genetic tests people should not get.
In the age of precision medicine, the genome is our oyster. There are cancer wonder drugs that pinpoint the errant genes that drive tumors. There are longstanding medical mysteries finally being unraveled by DNA sequencing. There is tremendous excitement over the coming age of treatments tailored to you. And there is also this: a very long list of genes for which the best medical understanding of what they mean for our health is essentially a shrug. Read More...
