climate change You Could Have a Hard Time Making a Salad if This River Dries Up If you eat a salad in February, chances are it was grown with water from the Colorado River. But the river is drying up, spelling danger for crops and cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix and Denver, which draw upon the river for fresh water.
Tokyo Discovering Tokyo (Finally) After Two Weeks of Quarantine Exploring Tokyo is even sweeter after two weeks of quarantine. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain, who is covering the Tokyo Olympics, shares what it’s like to experience the host city after two weeks of life in a bubble.
food How to Eat Like an Olympian Olympians are elite athletes, but at our core we're not so different.... What can we learn from people who hone their body to machine-like efficiency on the way to glory?
pizza We Tried Some of Japan's Unique Pizza Flavors Amanda Plasencia tried some of Japan’s unique pizza flavors like char-grilled beef, fish & chips and butter chicken curry.
food We Ate Ramen, KFC and Japanese McDonald's While Stuck in Quarantine There’s a shrimp filet sandwich, the Ebi Filet-O, only available at Japanese McDonald’s restaurants. Another chain, KFC, has a big presence in the country too…but Japanese dishes like ramen and sushi have been a big draw for journalists covering the Tokyo Olympics. NBCLX Storyteller Fernando Hurtado shows you the food of Japan that was available in quarantine, and his first...
Tokyo All the Things You Can Find in a Tokyo Convenience Store Japan is known for its “konbinis,” or convenience stores. Sometimes referred to as the heartbeat of a city, they’re usually open 24 hours a day, 365 days a week. Step inside one of them, and you’ll find they carry a plethora of items you wouldn’t usually find in an American convenience store. Here are some of those things.
food Daym Drops Wants You to Remember the Love That Goes Into Food There’s a difference between eating your food and having a moment with it. When you’re at a restaurant or enjoying a home-cooked meal, it’s good for the soul to just appreciate the passion in the preparation, says Daym Drops. His new show on Netflix, “Fresh, Fried & Crispy” is about that feeling.
food ‘High on the Hog' Traces American Food Traditions Back to Africa What’s the soul of soul food and where does it come from? In the new Netflix series “High on the Hog,” author and historian Jessica B. Harris and Stephen Satterfield talk about the connections between the African diaspora and foods in the American South in particular. The series follows those food traditions through the slave trade, Reconstruction and into the...
marijuana Lobsters Hung Out in a THC Hotbox, For Science Biology researchers exposed lobsters to THC, the chemical in cannabis that gets users high - after a lobster shack owner claimed the drug could ease the crustaceans' suffering when getting cooked.
