A 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest known European Medieval food recipes, according to new research.

Industrial design often borrows from biology, but does that mean tasting spoons with working tastebuds? How about tongs that grab with humanoid teeth, or a pepper mill that sniffs your food and dispenses just the right amount of seasoning? Christine Chin's Sentient Kitchen imagines cooking utensils with both the form…

What James Stokoe's Wonton Soup is to culinary science fiction, Eric Colossal's webcomic Rutabaga is to high fantasy foodstuff. This webcomic is the tale of a wandering adventurer who is driven not by heroism, revenge, fame, or money, but by a desire to experience all of the mouthwatering delights his magical realm has …

According to Chef Cui Runquan, young people in China no longer want to take jobs as noodle shavers, so he created the "Chef Cui" robot to handle the slicing duty in noodle shops. Now, he has an entire army of Ultraman-ish robot slicers, and they look poised for a delicious robot uprising.

It's an old joke: How does the teflon stick to the pan? It turns out that the answer involves a relatively long scientific quest to find a smooth substance that can stand the test of time.

Rat is a readily available street food in some Southeast Asian countries, and earlier editions of The Joy of Cooking contained instructions on the proper butchering of squirrels. But rodents have fallen out of favor in most Western cuisines, relegated to mere vermin. So how would you go about cooking a rat if you'd…

Prison food is notoriously terrible, and it's not like you can go out to a drive-thru when you get hungry between meal-times. But prison inmates are famous for their amazing creativity — and when they're not making shivs and other improvised weapons, they're creating some truly bizarre food items.

Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) is a strong base, capable of destroying or eroding things on contact. It's so caustic, it's used to dispose of human remains. You might have used it to unclog a drain or clean your oven - NaOH is a major ingredient in Drano and Easy-Off. You might be enjoying a bit of NaOH chemistry as part of…

How did humans become the swarming, world-spanning species that we are today? A lot of reasons, sure, but one of them may very well have been the invention of cooking. This everyday scientific discipline changed the world - and may change it still more.

Two Dutch talk show hosts had pieces of their and abdomen and rump surgically removed, and then swapped skins for a snack. Watch Dennis Storm and co-host Valerio Zeno cook their own flesh and serve it on a plate in front of the world. It's a scientific experiment worthy of the good Dr. Hannibal Lecter.