A plate of huevos rancheros topped with a basted egg. Lydia Thompson/NPR hide caption
Dunkers ready for toppings at the Donut Shop. David Sommerstein/North Country Public Radio hide caption
Sumo wrestlers serve up chanko-nabe at Musashigawa Sumo Stable in 2007 in Osaka, Japan. Junko Kimura/Getty Images hide caption
Sure, seeing a cockroach on your fries would turn you off eating them. But what about seeing a photo of a cockroach flash by before you see a photo of fries? Flickr hide caption
A bulldozer pushes illegal imported cheese in Russia on Thursday, in a photo provided by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance. Landov hide caption
AeroFarms grows greens under intense LED grow lights, while their roots are bathed in a nutrient-rich mist. Courtesy of AeroFarms hide caption
Even with the three-week shelf life in the U.S., plenty of milk goes to waste here. iStockphoto hide caption
Laws in Montana, Utah, North Dakota, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and North Carolina have also made it illegal for activists to smuggle cameras into industrial animal operations. iStockphoto hide caption
Joseph Severn's portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The radical 19th century poet practiced the politics of the plate. For Shelley and other liberals of his day, keeping sugar out of tea was a political statement against slavery. Joseph Severn/Wikimedia hide caption
Yaupon growing in the wild in east Texas. This evergreen holly was once valuable to Native American tribes in the Southeastern U.S., which made a brew from its caffeinated leaves. Murray Carpenter for NPR hide caption
Final inspection of frozen blueberries at the Atlantic Blueberry Co. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption
Not only did the family trade their urban life for one in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains and trees, but they also earn $300,000 a year. Ari Shapiro/NPR hide caption
One of the hornless Holsteins at Steve Maddox's California dairy farm. Maddox is beginning to breed hornless cattle into his herd, but it's slow going. Abbie Fentress Swanson for NPR hide caption
Ready, set, fly! The ball bearings glued to this bumblebee's legs simulate the weight and placement of pollen loads. The tag on the insect's back is a lightweight sensor, designed to track its movements in flight. Courtesy of Andrew Mountcastle hide caption
Olive oil gets filtered in an oil mill in a Portuguese oil farm near Evora. Rick Mattes says that if an olive oil's concentration of fatty acid rises above 3.3 percent, it's no longer considered edible. And it'll be brimming with oleogustus. Francisco Seco/AP hide caption
Traditional recipes for duck confit, or confit de canard, can require dozens of steps to prepare. David Lebovitz's fake take cuts the steps down to five. Ed Anderson/Courtesy of Ten Speed Press hide caption
Bobkat's Purple Pie Place is a fixture in Custer, S.D. Trevor Yehle hide caption
A farm owner inspects his tobacco crop in the sun. While Zimbabwe's tobacco production has made something of a turnaround lately, journalist Peta Thornycroft says much of the country's troubles since 2000 have been tied to failures in its capital-intensive tobacco farms. Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters/Landov hide caption
Organic farmer Margot McMillen holds a grape leaf damaged by pesticide drift on her farm, Terra Bella Farm, in central Missouri. Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media hide caption