After a few months caring for the White House garden, Michelle Obama and her team of school-age gardeners harvested 73 pounds of lettuce, 12 pounds of sweet peas, and other organic delights. Obama spoke to the students about the importance...
• It's really very easy to try traditional Irish food in Boston. [MP: Boston] • This Chicago burger has four pieces of bread buttressing it. [MP: Chicago] • Only Philly would host an event called "Scrapplefest!". [MP: Philadelphia] • Wine...
Q: Hey, MP: Boston, should you eat the eggs of a chicken right alongside its mother? A: No. That's gross. Q: MP: Chicago, who orders the caviar staircase at TRU? A: Pretty much no one. Q: Yo, MP: Philadelphia, do...
• Don't diss Beantown burgers. [MP: Boston] • A cupcake full of alcohol is always a good idea. [MP: Chicago] • If you have $17.50 to spare, you should probably spend it on grilled offal. [MP: Philadelphia] • If you...
• Try out for the Food Network's Amazing Race knockoff! [MP: Boston] • Represent Arab food at Taste of Chicago! [MP: Chicago] • Leave us an aggressively shilly review! [MP: Philadelphia] • Start a web series about your local food...
• A prescription for the single and drunk. [MP: Boston] • A heartfelt letter of appreciation for one departing food writer. [MP: Chicago] • An anti-anti-Valentine's Day polemic. [MP: Philadelphia] • A guide to Valentine's Day for hippies. [MP: San...
Our sister blog in Philadelphia is all over the unstoppable rise of cupcakes, that crazy confectionary juggernaut that flattens every attempt at backlash it encounters. It's not just Americans who love them — cupcakes are apparently molto di moda in...
Our sister blog over in South Florida has the scoop on Servinity, a new social networking-based client that restaurant owners and managers can use to corrall their waitstaff — "the software-as-a service company leverages the Internet, e-mail, cell phone, SMS...
Our siblings over at at MenuPages San Francisco are reporting that online reservation behemoth OpenTable has filed to go public. They intend to raise $40 million before moving ahead. It's a heartening move, economy-wise, since the New York Times reports...
• It's a Pats-free Super Bowl this year, but that doesn't mean that Boston isn't ready for game day. Drink some beer, eat some wings, and relax. [MP: Boston] • Sandra Lee parodies are never not funny. [MP: Chicago] •...
At the risk of becoming the Pepsi beat, this marks the second time in as many weeks that we have been floored by their advertising/viral marketing strategy. Last time it was on account of the parallel they drew between...
The Tuscan town of Lucca is getting some flack for a ruling earlier this week banning food establishments of other ethnicities from within the city's medieval walls. That means no fast food, no pizza, no kebab stalls and no...
After reading about the seven Japanese diners who went to the hospital after consuming ineptly prepared fugu (blowfish sushi) we immediately wanted to try it for ourselves. After all, even if you get a bad piece, you still have...
Alice Waters has been taking flack from all sides over the past week, and so far she has been rather quiet about it. You probably heard about Anthony Bourdain's jab at the sultana of sustainability last week, where he...
• The best part about Valentine's Day? Obviously, it's the candy. [MP: Boston] • You're never ever too old for a "your mom" joke. [MP: Chicago] • Philly restaurateur Stephen Starr gives out burns like an arsonist. [MP: Philadelphia] •...
This video of Dan Barber at the Taste3 conference is like, a thousand years old in internet years, but it doesn't seem to have made the blog rounds and it's very interesting. The talk he gives is about his...
So by now, you have, of course, heard about the salmonella panic sweeping the nation regarding peanut products. So far, the outbreak has been responsible for making 480 people sick and caused six deaths. The source has been found:...
• WHICH Beantown neighborhood has seen a spate of recent restaurant shutterings? [MP: Boston] • WHICH Windy City food critic puts so little stock in anonymity that he appeared as a judge on Throwdown With Bobby Flay? [MP: Chicago] •...
Well, well, well! Would you look at that? Pepsi's packaging has undergone a complete overhaul, just in time for Barack Obama's inauguration! The resemblance between the former Pepsi logo and the Obama logo was already striking, but this time...
It seems everyone's hanging their hopes on Obama these days, including Washington, DC restaurateurs who are all jockeying for the president-elect's attention. He's been known to enjoy a meal out on the town, and he's got a far more...