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Health Food

An Indigenous Mexican healer, known as a <em>curandera</em>, performs a ritual at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, a living history museum in New Mexico.

Podcast: Witches and Ritual Around the Globe

Explore the mysteries of Mexico's Indigenous healers and Denmark's gruesome witch burnings with Condé Nast Traveler's Women Who Travel Podcast.

The Podcast Team July 3, 2023

The women of the Source Family pose on a Rolls-Royce for an ad for the release of a recording of the cult's band, Ya Ho Wha 13.

The Cult Roots of Health Food in America

How the Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.

Diana Hubbell April 19, 2023

This cup, which reads "punk health," contains goji berry-infused coffee. The berries are held to be good for the liver, kidneys, and other organs.

Why 'Punk Health' Foods Are Popular with China’s Youth

Sometimes, rebellion means goji berries in your beer.

Clarissa Wei July 2, 2021

Mature petai beans.

Stink Beans

These Southeast Asian legumes are famed for their lasting funk and deliciously nutty flavor.

Cherry Burger

In the '90s, fruit burgers almost took over American school lunches.

The coastal wattle and its seeds.

Wattleseed

This chocolate-flavored superfood falls from the Australian Acacia bush.

The fastest way to sell a surplus? School lunches.

When the Dried Plum Lobby Tried to Make Pruneburgers Happen

The fastest way to end a prune surplus? Puree them into school lunches.

Michael Waters April 13, 2018

August Engelhardt believed coconuts were divine.

The Curious Case of August Engelhardt, Leader of a Coconut-Obsessed Cult

"The sun, God, and the coconut were like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."

Zoë Bernard November 30, 2017

The Battle Creek Sanitarium, home of the Corn Flake (and Snowflake Toast)

Before Avocado Toast, There Was Snowflake Toast

The Kellogg brothers' spa served health food that still sounds trendy.

Anne Ewbank November 20, 2017

Sea Grapes

This "green caviar" is vegetarian friendly.