Background (numbers refer to citations at the end) The Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) commission set an important goal, albeit one ironically similar to Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move” campaign: end childhood chronic disease.[1] Unfortunately, hallucinated references in the report suggested that at least some of it had been written by AI, thereby detracting from its scientific credibility.

Washington Post reporter, Tim Carman, contacted me for comment about a speech he heard made by RFK Jr’s top food advisor, Calley Means, in which Means made patently false charges about my work.  From Carman's report, MAHA Mondays at the Great American State Fair miss one obvious problem: Means suggested her research had been bankrolled by sugar and tobacco industries, the latter of which 

If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:

The May Food Thinkers webinar, 'From Label To Table: A history of US FDA food labelling policy and the responsibilization of the consumer', delivered by Dr Xaq Frohlich on 12 May 2026.

YouTube video by Centre for Food Policy

The College of Liberal Arts announces its 2026 faculty and staff award recipients.

Food and Drink Package Recycling in Urban Food Systems: Contexts and Comparisons, Lessons and Experiences

Xaq Frohlich's From Label to Table is a detailed and readable history of how food labeling became a critical part of American food regulation and Americans

Abstract. In this essay, written in dialogue with the introduction to this special issue, the authors offer a critical history of the development of large language models (LLMs). The essay's goal is t...

Hungry Historians · Episode

AI everything! For a month! That’s one way to describe the talk I gave for Brown’s AI and Humanities Research group, part of the Center for Digital Scholarship. Less clickbaity: How mig…

Lisa Haushofer's Wonder Foods explores the understudied intersections of food marketing, nutrition expertise, and colonial resource extraction in shaping d

One woman’s quest to figure out why her beloved white cheddar popcorn started to disappoint.