The bite that can rewrite your diet—and the researchers trying to fight it (opens in new tab)

At a wedding reception 13 years ago, Allen Gudenrath (BA ’72) couldn’t stop reaching for lamb “pops”—fried lamb hors d’oeuvres that look like a cross between a lamp chop and a chicken wing. “Boy, they were delicious,” he says. Later that night, though, he awoke with welts and trouble breathing. On the advice of a doctor friend, he took an over-the-counter antihistamine.