Catherine Price

The strange, sometimes sickening things we’ve done to understand what goes on inside our guts.

In a time of warring empires and transoceanic voyages, sailors dreaded scurvy more than any other disease.

Fleischmann’s Yeast for Health campaign turned unappetizing blocks of fresh yeast into one of the first health-food fads by using brazen, relentless advertising marked by unverifiable claims and “scientific” language.