• 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...
Ubuntu's vegan apple/sauerkraut/caraway burgers Leave it to the Bay Area to bring a vegan burger to a national burger competition. Could we be any more of a stereotype of ourselves? One big forehead slap is in order here. Fact...
Our sibling publication in South Florida is covering the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, which starts tonight with the ever-popular Amstel Light Burger Bash. They've got a little preview of said bash today, with a look at the menu...
• 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...
For those planning to attend — or just curious about — the South Beach Food and Wine festival in Florida, our sister publication, MenuPages: South Florida, has the pre-fest skinny. Seems tickets to many events are half price right now,...
"The backlash is as old news as cupcakes are, but the question is, why hasn't it made a dent in cupcake popularity?" This is the question asked and answered over at our sibling publication in Philadelphia today. Have a look...
Take heed, all you out of work chefs and waiters and managers and so on. Soon enough, you can trade in all that ineffective job-searching on the internet for something new, something revolutionary... A different kind of internet job...
Our sibling publication, MenuPages: Chicago, is reporting on the next level of the brewing McDonald's/Starbucks fight. With the 'buck in a downward spiral while McDonald's holds strong, the battle is becoming fierce. Apparently Starbucks has launched a menu to rival...
• 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:...
Pretty much all we can think about here at MP HQ is this morning's inauguration. Regardless of political affiliation, we were all glued to our new President waxing stentorian about tomorrow and strength and change, and this blogger found herself...
• 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...