fbpx

Get your twice-weekly fix of features, commentary, and insight from the frontlines of American food.

Email is required.
Zip code is required.
First name is required.
Last name is required.
Thank you! You're all set.

Read

Skip to main content
The Counter

Fact and friction in American food

Subscribe Donate
Donate
Politics
Business
Environment
Culture
Tech
Covid-19
Explore Series Newsletter
About Us Contact Us Code of Ethics
Twitter Facebook Instagram
Explore all Food + Impact
See all

What means “doing good?”

Invasive lake trout have been decimating native fish populations for decades. Residents of the Flathead Reservation in Montana have a solution.

11.18.2021
Lena Beck
Why do we value some fish more than others? It’s time to reconsider “rough” fish.
10.26.2021
by Lela Nargi
Community fridges are not a pandemic fad. They’ve become entrenched in neighborhoods as a way to fight hunger.
10.08.2021
by Matthew Sedacca
New GAO report details how federal nutrition programs are thwarted by agencies working at cross purposes
10.07.2021
by Lela Nargi
U.S. restaurant criticism was evolving well before Covid-19. The pandemic revealed why critics need to keep embracing change.
10.07.2021
by Patricia I. Escárcega
Collecting seeds to restore prairie grasslands
10.07.2021
by Kylie Mohr / High Country News
Kimbal Musk’s school gardening nonprofit lays off entire unionizing workforce
09.30.2021
by H. Claire Brown
Why’s it taken so long for foreign-language characters and words to make it into English cookbooks?
09.30.2021
by Rachel Baron
Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.
09.22.2021
by Joe Fassler
Prev Next

Grist acquires The Counter and launches food and agriculture vertical

Please read our latest Press Release.

Explore Series Newsletter
About Us Contact Us Code of Ethics
How We’re Funded Donate Work for Us
Twitter Facebook Instagram
Fact and friction in American food

©2020 The Counter. All rights reserved. Use of this Site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of The Counter.