The Future of Cooking

Cooking has always adapted to innovation (controlled fire, frozen peas) at a steady, reasonable pace. But the world of food is about to change at a faster clip than ever before. Lab-bred tomatoes will get juicier. Grocery stores will appear out of thin air. And those insects crawling in your kitchen? You're going to throw them in a frying pan.
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Illustration by Mathieu De Steur

The Solar Solution

Disease. Depleting resources. Deforestation. These are just a few of the effects fuel-based cooking is having on the planet. That's why one company in Ohio is building an oven that swaps fire for that fireball in the sky. (And before you ask, yes, you can use it indoors.)

The Culinary Cricket

The search for new sources of sustainable protein has been going on for a century. For one Epicurious editor, the answer is creepy-crawly but fries up nice and crunchy.

The Flavor Farmers

For the better part of a century, we have been selectively breeding crops for money-making traits such as yield and shelf life, all the while ignoring flavor. Here are a few of the people working to change that.

The Smart Supermarket

The way we shop for groceries (and everything else) has been changing for years. Soon, the supermarket will finally catch up.

The Cooking Classroom

It turns out that teaching kids to cook their vegetables is making them actually want to eat their vegetables.