The nearly 20-year-old food pyramid will soon give way to a new symbol. Speculation is it will be a dinner plate with sections representing the most important food groups.

The federal government unveiled its new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices on June 2, 2011.

Arriving in the midst of an obesity epidemic, a new at-a-glance government guide to healthful eating is meant to remind consumers to limit heavy foods and beef up on the greens.

Food license plates like these have been documented on Flickr by John C. Abell and others, and in posts on blogs here and there, but there may be one person above all others who have excelled at ...

When the federal government unveiled its food plate icon in June to replace its ridiculously confusing food pyramid, nutrition researcher Walter Willett, chair of the nutrition department at ...

Kandinsky On A Plate: ... The ancient Romans understood that, and certainly today's top chefs exploit it when they plate their food. Some plating practices are ethnic, others trendy.