Recently, my English class finished reading Shakespeare’s play Othello. We had to write an in-class essay discussing one of its motifs, and I chose blood. During my research session on blood during Shakespearean times, I came across the term “bloodletting”...

Have you ever watched one of those YouTube videos where someone tried smoking a watermelon to make it taste like ham, or use seasoned rice paper to make “bacon”? It seems as though the craze for plant-based foods has overtaken the United States these...