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Everybody knows that the Fourth of July celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the historic document by means of which the 13 American colonies severed their political connections...
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Kansas City barbecue-flavored mushroom chips, Morrocan squash and sweet potato curry baby food, popcorn-style popped lotus seeds in coconut or mango-habenero flavors, spring water infused with...
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The Kroger supermarket company wants to get your groceries to you so fast that actually going to the store yourself will seem like a waste of time. The firm is currently testing a new...
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What’s the most popular distilled spirit in the world? Vodka? Scotch or bourbon? Tequila? Not even close. The winner is baijiu, a traditional Chinese grain liquor, usually made from sorghum or rice...
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Five public health and consumer protection organizations have joined together to ask the U.S. government to require new warning labels on all alcoholic beverages. The American Institute for Cancer...
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A survey of fast food preferences by the American Customer Service Index has just named Chick-fil-A as the nation’s favorite fast food restaurant for the fourth year in a row. The 23,000 consumers...
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In an earlier era, choosing an ice cream flavor was easy. The standard options were vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate, and sometimes a slab of Neapolitan — which was a banded combination of all...
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The airline industry data company OAG has just released its annual report on airline and airport on-time performance — and the news isn’t good for passengers flying around the U.S. The survey...
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) prohibits college athletes from profiting monetarily in any way from their sports activities — even though the organization (and its member...
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For decades, everyone from medical researchers to academic nutritionists to pop-culture dieticians has been telling us the same thing: For longer, healthier lives, eat less processed meat and consume...
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Good cooks who give great dinner parties hear this all the time: “You should open a restaurant.” Cooks who are not just good but also smart realize that there’s a world of difference between...
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Consumers may soon be able to sip Scotch flavored with faint hints of tequila, mezcal, calvados, Brazil’s cachaça, even Asian spirits like China’s grain-based baijiu, according to new guidelines...
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That’s the surprising conclusion of a study called “Civic Honesty Around the Globe,” just published in the journal Science. Working in stages, teams of economists from the universities of...
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A survey of more than 5,000 Americans aged 13 to 73 conducted by the canned- and frozen-vegetable brand Green Giant has revealed that the nation’s favorite vegetable is…broccoli. Happily for the...
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Summer means grilling — lighting the hardwood charcoal or briquets or igniting the propane to impart that inimitable outdoor culinary magic on hot dogs and burgers, chicken and shrimp, maybe even...
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