File this under "most inventive smuggling operation ever." A group of smugglers wanted to get cheap vodka from Russia to Estonia without having to pay those silly EU taxes. So they built an underwater pipeline to funnel the spirits...
Wow, the news about plastics just keeps getting scarier. First it turns out they may give you brain damage. Now it seems you can get a host of diseases from the stuff as well. You doubtless picked it up...
Eyes refusing to open to such sad news, we lay half-awake this morning as the clock radio announced that Richard Wright, keyboard player for Pink Floyd, had died, apparently of cancer. Then a Barf Blog post put the tragedy...
Think you’re alone in needing medical attention after spending some time in the kitchen? Think again. Time Out New York published a short piece surveying the work-related injuries of various food industry professionals, including a big-name chef or two....
File this in the same folder as tumors with hair or maybe three-eyed fish. Only cuter. And edible. Boing Boing has a link to a report from a woman in England who found what looks like a strawberry growing...
This is probably going to be the last piece in our coverage of 2008 Slow Food Nation, the labor day sustainable food event that turned San Francisco into one big gourmet ghetto. Overall, I thought the ambitious, four-day event...
By now you’ve no doubt heard that the Labor Day Slow Food Nation event in San Francisco went off with at least a couple hitches. Negative chatter and blog posts have popped up regarding the organization, the cost, and...
• Inexpensive Italian on the city's priciest street? Yes please! [MP: Boston] • Perhaps you should celebrate your marriage with a tattooed wedding cake. [MP: Chicago] • Esquire + Philadelphia = Tru Luv 4Eva. [MP: Philadelphia] • Love is a...
There seems to be no shortage of interest surrounding food and the Presidential candidates. Way back in April, the New York Times ran that collection of pieces about the intersection of our pantries and how we vote. For example,...
First came the automat. Then vending machines. Then nothing for a while. Then, last year, a German restaurant opened that serves food mechanically, via crazy roller-coaster tracks. Now the next phase in food delivery is here, and it is electronic....
Waffle House has a whole slew of adoring fans, but I imagine even its most ardent supporters might not think of the roadside chain as a wedding spot. Not so a couple of Waffle House employees in Dacula, Ga.,...
This is interesting: Seems taking pictures of your food can help with weight loss, at least according to one University of Wisconsin at Madison study. Serious Eats linked to a Daily Telegraph article on the study:The pictures appear to...
Here are the two ways in which a dish can be supremely delicious and fattening without containing meat: 1) It is French Fries 2) It is the news that GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's speechwriter is a staunch vegetarian...
They loved Lucy, hula hoops and "pure and good" Kool Aid. And the creepy, semi-utopian ads of the Space Age reflected this widely held belief that technology was key to world peace and immortality. Ok, so maybe not, we're...
Because it wasn't weird enough for a Fresno, Calif. burglar to simply assault his sleeping victims with food from their own kitchen, a paragraph in Saturday's Fresno Bee account implies the suspect carried out the two attacks at the...
• Bostonians celebrated the patron saint of fishermen, as well as the deliciousness of cannoli. [MP: Boston] • A genteel evening at the Ravinia Festival turned into an all-out food fight. [MP: Chicago] • One "raven" had his/her own personal...
Well here's some news: The FDA has announced that milk and meat from cloned animals may be in our food supply. Keyword here is may: "it would be impossible to know because there is no difference between cloned and conventional...
What is it that's so satisfying, but also kind of forlorn, about old versions of the future? Boing Boing ran this 1931 ad via Modern Mechanix that boasts of the ease with which a farmer could milk a cow by...
Foods of the World, a new site from National Geographic, launched yesterday to relatively little fanfare. The site is equal parts global food bazaar, recipe resource, and exploration/research tool. In fact, the marriage of National Geographic and food in...
Ha, this is great: Remember when we brought you our list of state/county fair food dos and don'ts? Well, an addendum should be made: Do: • Eat anything and everything that comes on a stick. The weirder the better. Because...