The idea that MSG is uniquely harmful rests on a single letter and a lot of iffy science.

Making a recent dinner, my wife Elisabeth put together Sohla El-Waylly's “hot and tingly” smashed cucumber salad, a wisp of a recipe that combines favorite ingredients like cukes, chili crisp, salt, ...

Merve Ceylan is a dietitian and health writer with four years of experience writing for companies in the nutrition and health industry. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a food additive that makes foods ...

Last Monday I got to be one of the judges and hosts for the Condé Nast Traveller Best New Restaurant awards. Me and my sidekick of many years Steven Manderson, aka Professor Green grabbed some ...

When a letter appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 claiming that consumption of MSG could be to blame for the spread of what the author dubbed “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”, it ...