I never did the typical college thing — while my friends went off to live in dorms their freshman year, I hit the mean streets of not-yet-creepy Craigslist to find off-campus roommates. Dorm life was ...

In 1937, canned, gelatinous meat became as much an American cultural institution as a culinary one, when the Hormel Food Corporation spawned Spam in an Austin, Minnesota, food lab. The product — a ...