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What makes a good food city? An abundance of good restaurants, of course, ideally offering an ample choice of both casual and serious options and representing a wide range of cuisines. (Food halls...
More than a third of U.S. adults ate fast food on a given day between 2013 and 2016, according to a report on fast food consumption published last year by the Centers for Disease Control and...
A fad is a “trivial fancy adopted and pursued for a time with irrational zeal…or an important matter imperfectly understood [and] taken up and urged with more zeal than sense” — at least...
Everybody knows that you shouldn’t drink on an empty stomach — that a lack of food magnifies the effects of alcohol. Even nibbling something like a snack mix can help, reducing your peak blood...
Though American cuisine was once derided for consisting mostly of fast food and TV dinners, it is today recognized as having some of the most complex and creative cooking in the world. More than...
Though American cuisine was once derided for consisting mostly of fast food and TV dinners, it is today recognized as having some of the most complex and creative cooking in the world. More than...
In the world of food, there’s always something new on the horizon — and on supermarket shelves, restaurant menus, and dinner tables. An astonishing 15,000 or so new food products are introduced...
Etiquette — good manners — is a code of behavior, a set of (highly variable) rules governing how we should behave, theoretically at least, in order to bring the least offense to our fellow...
Cacao is native to Central or South America, and the beans were probably first roasted and ground into powder to make beverages and gruel by the Olmecs in southern Mexico around 1500 B.C. Some...
The unhealthiest state in the union, according to statistics compiled by LetsGetChecked, a home health and wellness testing site, is West Virginia. The healthiest state by the same metrics is Utah....
San Francisco-based DoorDash — the country’s leading food delivery service, accounting for 34% of U.S. sales in the category, according to the most recent data — has just released its 2019-2020...
DoorDash, the country’s number one food delivery service (it accounts for more than a third of U.S. sales in the category), has just released its 2019-2020 Trend Report. In it, the company reveal...
There are many ways to cook chicken. You can boil or poach it, sauté it, bake or roast it, grill it, smoke it, cook it on a rotisserie or in a clay pot. Once it’s cooked, you can pull or shred it,...
What makes a good food city? An abundance of good restaurants, of course, ideally offering an ample choice of both casual and serious options and representing a wide range of cuisines. (Food halls...
Having a chart-topping song is the dream of countless musicians. Music’s biggest stars often accomplish this feat repeatedly. Other recording artists, however, manage to score only one big hit,...