Historians think numbers began with the words one and two. Me You. Man Woman. One Two. One Two are different from all the numbers that ...

OK, some of these blogs on food math haven't been much fun. I admit when trying to get the numbers straight we often forget the word fun...

Math and food seem to go together in our post-industrial age, especially on our food labels. And how did I know researching and producing ...

Calories! The number everyone hates to count. But what is a calorie? Google helpfully suggests that it's equal to 4184 joules. That do...

Yesterday we talked about chocolate. Today we look at the intersection of food and money. Here's the question:   How MUCH do YOU spend ...

This past week I have been reading about Malcolm Muggeridge, an English journalist for much of the twentieth century. His diaries tell of li...