Felix Behr
Expertise
History, Science, Technology, Business
- Felix is a long-term news writer for Mashed and Tasting Table.
- Felix's historical knowledge helps place food and other products within their context, including exactly what the Athenians did with their radishes.
- Having helped found a magazine that covered changes wrought by technology, Felix knows never to take anything any marketing says seriously, as all it does is obscure what their product actually is.
Experience
Felix has been professionally writing for four years. His most major project has been to help form the international magazine Mayday. There he honed his writing by covering changes at the intersection of technology, science, and culture. Now he treats food as the same convergence point between technology, science, and culture.
Education
Felix received a double degree from Oberlin College, consisting of B.A. in Ancient Greek Language & Literature and B.A. in Comparative Literature. Having studied the baffling sentence structures of Latin and Greek writers, the mounds of waffle that emanate from PR Agencies sway him not.
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Stories By Felix Behr
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Food waste involves grocery stores throwing out 30% of their stocks, which costs them $16 billion annually.
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Drive-thru wait times have been increasing over the past few years, and now exceed six minutes. Here is why that is a problem for businesses.
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Noma has been ranked the world's best restaurant many times over the last decade, but it appears that era has finally ended for good.
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The immediate future of the oat industry is currently less grim or expectant than chaotically up in the air.
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Watch out, smoothie-lovers: a popular brand of frozen blueberries has been recalled for a scary health reason.
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The golden state provides a huge amount of the country's agriculture, but how did it get to be such a huge resource?
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A bottle of champagne just sold for $2.5 million. However, the unprecedented price tag has nothing to do with any historical value of the wine or its quality.
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While you can certainly drink distilled water, its primary purpose is not for drinking. Here's why.
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Inflation has hit supermarket shelves everywhere, the most direct way the average member of the public will notice rising prices.
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Last year, Gordon Ramsay announced he was going vegan. Well, not really. It was a marketing trick on TikTok to announce the launch of a series of vegan recipes.
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The reason you might want to think twice about buying organic food from Kroger is not the cost of organic food, but the cost of buying it.
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Global trends in food prices tend to occur later in Asia.
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Some Starbucks baristas can expect to see larger paychecks in August as part of a broad set of changes that will be enacted this year.
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Howard Schultz, the founder and recently returned CEO of Starbucks, published a letter on the Starbucks website detailing his vision for the company's future.
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Grocery chain Hy-Vee has issued a huge recall on several of its potato salad products. If you've purchased one, you should return it to Hy-Vee for a refund.
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This is why supermarkets in the UK are adding security stickers to some dairy products.
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh dined at the D.C. branch of Morton's, however, pro-choice protestors congregated at the restaurant causing him to flee.
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While bread played a significant role in the French Revolution, you might want to dive deeper into French cuisine while celebrating Bastille Day.
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Like every other part of our food system, farmers markets are suffering under the pressure of inflation.
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What's better than dry ice when it comes to creating a spooky party theme? It creates a fun effect but it needs to be handled and disposed of very carefully!
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You're probably not thinking about Asia when you're cooking or eating American eel, and yet it's quite possible your fish spent a good deal of its life there.
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Pre-packaged salads are certainly convenient, but the contents are never as crisp and tasty as fresh, unpackaged greens. Here's the simple reason why.
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Attempts to optimize health may lead you to reassess your opinion of pulp-filled jugs of orange juice. After all, pulp surely serves some purpose. Right?
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Despite featuring in the Mediterranean diet, seafood like tuna should be eaten in a regulated manner.
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Tesco is choosing to pull products from its shelves rather than give into manufacturers who want the UK grocery chain to raise prices.
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The meat industry in the United States has come under scrutiny by animal welfare advocates. Here is why the organizations are calling out Bayonne and Parma ham.
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Misfits Market, an online subscription service that delivers organic foods and ugly produce to customers, recently announced new features for its consumers.