It's been a weird past month for encased meats, huh? First there was the hot dog bomb scare in Philly, wherein the bomb squad was called in to deal with three suspicious-looking duct tape wrapped hot dogs. (Spoiler alert! They...
What a world we live in. It's a magic time where fiction becomes fact and fantasy intermingles with reality. This is the age of the monkey butler. Remember this exchange from the Simpsons (the Lord of the Flies episode in...
War is about to break out again in the Middle East. This time, it's not land or religion that they're arguing about — nope, it's a large-scale food fight. Over hummus. Fadi Abboud, president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association,...
They may not get to go with mom and dad to wd-50 or Moto, but could young, vege-phobic kids be a new market for molecular gastronomy, with its texture-hiding ways? That's the thesis of Sara Dickerman's article today in...
Our love for the Minnesota State Fair is well-documented. It increased, exponentially, when we came across Mykl Roventine's remarkable Flickr set of images taken at the fair this year. Of particular note: The dozens upon dozens of foods-on-a-stick (foods-on-sticks?) available....
Bart Simpson would be proud. While Anthony Morley didn't exactly eat Damian Oldfield's shorts, he came damned close by cooking and eating part of the man's thigh. From the Mail Online:, via Coldmud: A gay chef murdered his lover,...
China’s ever-growing share of exports to the West may keep us comfortable at a cheap cost, but they can also be a mixed blessing: Think gun powder (great for fireworks, not so great for conflict resolution), designer knock-offs, and...
Okay, gastro-tourists, get your stomachs rumbling and your reservation fingers twitching. Michelin awarded its New York City stars for 2009 this morning. Major changes include Masa joining the three-star club and Adour Alain Ducasse, Gilt and Momofuku Ko banging...
• "Aquitaine Hunger Force": some might say the best post title ever. [MP: Boston] • Happy anniversary, Barack and Michelle! [MP: Chicago] • Philly.com's dining RSS feed is hijacked with hilarious results. [MP: Philadelphia] • Be honest: how many of...
Don't you hate it when your hand cramps up from flinging imaginary check marks in the air when you're trying to get out of a restaurant to make your show? Ever died of dehydration because you couldn't get a...
Tonight is an important, and potentially history-making night, guys. Sarah Palin and Joe Biden are meeting for their debate, and it sure seems like everyone is planning on watching it. One particular segment of society seems especially pumped for...
Chow's Helena Echlin fields a question this week from a diner who wants to know if it is ever okay to commit the ultimate dining out sin of completely stiffing your server. Short answer: God, no!In any case, when...
Chipotle is going green. The new free-standing Chipotle in Gurnee, Illinois will have a wind turbine on-site that's expected to generate 10 percent of the restaurant's electrical power. And that's not all — here's what else is in the...
News of a special, very expensive dinner offered by wallet-reaming tag-team Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz has been percolating around the internets, to no little controversy. We first heard about the $1,500 bonanza on MenuPages: Chicago, which followed the...
Tom Colicchio has a lot going for him. A pile of wildly successful Craft-branded restaurants far flung throughout the country, national celebrity as host of Top Chef, an oh-so-shiny bald pate. But one thing his fame and fortune haven't delivered...
So, Robert Parker wants us to boycott restaurants that over-charge for wine. The publisher of Wine Advocate reportedly writes in an upcoming article that restaurants jacking up the price of wine is, "nothing more or less than a legitimized...
Let no one tell you that you can't live forever: immortality has been discovered -- well, for a burger, anyway. Death eludes the indomitable McDonald's hamburger. Consider the following evidence, via Serious Eats and courtesy of Karen Hanrahan's website, bestwellnessconsultant.com:...
Chicago put itself on the front burner this past weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the...
Chicago put itself on the front burner this past weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the...
A story on the Barf Blog today raises a question so disturbing that much of our restaurant-o-phile readership will probably shudder at the very thought. But the evidence is there: Some restaurant and institutional kitchen food poisoning may be...