EDGE Chicago

Is that salty margarita rim really worth hypertension and obesity? Mexico City’s Health Secretary Armando Ahued thinks not as he launches the campaign "Less Salt, More Health" in an effort to curb the city’s salt intake.

Who’s buying the last round? California begins public committee hearings to discuss pushing last call back to 4 a.m.

Don’t know your pork butts from your rump roasts? It may be getting a little easier.

Organic apples and pears will soon be free of oxytetracycline - an antibiotic used to prevent blight but also criticized by organic advocacy groups for contributing to the ’superbug’ crisis.

The U.S. Barista Competition is underway, pitting the espresso elite against one another for top honors.

The new cookbook "The Gaza Kitchen" is being praised by celebrity chefs like Anthony Bourdain for showcasing a unique, fiery variation of Mediterranean cuisine kept alive through blockade, war and impoverishment.

Florida is growling over growlers, 64-ounce beer containers that are preferred by beer enthusiasts but currently banned in the state. Distributors are battling economic developers whether to legalize the the size.

Three years after launching the first of five pay-what-you-want cafes, the suburban St. Louis-based chain has quietly begun its latest charitable venture that takes the concept on a trial run to all 48 cafes in the St. Louis region.

With little more than a tap and a bucket, thieves are stealing the sap right out of Maine’s maple trees, undermining the second-largest maple production in the country.

Sometimes you feel like a nut. And sometimes you don’t, as is the case with Iran’s plummeting pistachio market. The beloved nut is the latest casualty in the country’s sanctions-battered economy.