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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Emelyn Rude ## Emelyn Rude ## Emelyn Rude *  May 13, 2020 ### [The Coronavirus Baking Boom's Flour Shortage Isn't the First](https://time.com/5836012/flour-shortage-history/) As the government urged Americans to cut back on wheat consumption, bakers came up with creative sol... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jan 31, 2019 ### [Americans Eat More Than a Billion Chicken Wings on Super Bowl Weekend. There's a Surprising Past Behind That Number](https://time.com/5515947/buffalo-wings-super-bowl-history/) Flash back to any point in American history prior to the 1970s and you would have had to have paid m... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jul 12, 2018 ### [The Backlash Against Plastic Straws Is Spreading. Here’s How They Got So Popular in the First Place](https://time.com/5336242/plastic-straws-history/) How did plastic straws—now being phased out by Starbucks—become so ubiquitous as to represent the wh... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Aug 31, 2017 ### [The Surprising Link Between World War II and Frozen Orange Juice](https://time.com/4922457/wwii-orange-juice-history/) Scientists had long tried to find a way to freeze O.J. without losing the flavor, and it was a warti... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jun 27, 2017 ### [Americans Are Totally Obsessed With Avocados Thanks to This Man](https://time.com/4832655/avocado-american-history/) June is California avocado month [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Mar 30, 2017 ### [The Very Short History of Food Stamp Fraud in America](https://time.com/4711668/history-food-stamp-fraud/) A look at the real history of food stamps in American reveals why cases of fraud in the program have... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Dec 21, 2016 ### [The History That Explains Those ‘Visions of Sugarplums’](https://time.com/4606739/history-sugarplums/) In many cases, there were no actual plums involved [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 22, 2016 ### [Astronauts Have Been Celebrating Thanksgiving in Space Since 1973\. Here's How](https://time.com/4578327/thanksgiving-space-turkeys/) Thanksgiving in space has been a tradition since 1973 [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 27, 2016 ### [The Scariest Part of Halloween May Have Always Been the Candy](https://time.com/4545226/halloween-sugar-history/) The health hazards of sugar have been known by scientists for a lot longer than you may think [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Sep 19, 2016 ### [An Abbreviated History of School Lunch in America](https://time.com/4496771/school-lunch-history/) Around the beginning of the 20th century, experts recognized that feeding students could be a crucia... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Aug 30, 2016 ### [The 'Beefsteak Election': When Meat Changed the Course of American Politics](https://time.com/4471656/the-beefsteak-election/) In 1946, during the midterm elections, Americans could seem to talk of nothing but red meat—and thos... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Aug 2, 2016 ### [Secrets of the Chicken Nugget: A Surprising History](https://time.com/4431334/history-chicken-nuggets/) Read an excerpt from the new book Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America’s Favorite Bird [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jun 30, 2016 ### [Celebrating the 4th of July With the Founding Foodies](https://time.com/4376823/4th-of-july-founding-foodies/) Culinary historians and diehard Fourth of July fans alike have long wondered what exactly was on the... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  May 24, 2016 ### [Like a Rolling Store: These Mobile Shops Changed Rural American Life](https://time.com/4344621/history-rolling-store/) The rolling store—an institution that was what it sounded like—was essential to the survival of many... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 14, 2016 ### [What Take-Out Food Can Teach You About American History](https://time.com/4291197/take-out-delivery-food-history/) Everything I need to know about America I learned from Seamless [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/emelyn-rude/","name":"Emelyn Rude"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/emelyn-rude/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/emelyn-rude/"},"name":"Emelyn Rude","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/emelyn-rude/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```