Fish-flavored fish

This spring, after 10 months of testing, the aquaculture company HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries created what it calls “sea-flavored” tilapia, the first farmed fish manipulated to taste like a wild fish. “It met 10 out of our 10 taste parameters,” says HQ’s president, via NYT.

Other food stories in the Times' Magazine's annual "Year in Ideas": culinary Orientalism, the edible cocktail, telltale food wrapping and vegansexuality, via TFS.