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Ever wonder how food gets to your local supermarket or your favorite fast-food place? How it ends up with the wholesalers who sell it to delis and food trucks and fancy restaurants and anyone else...
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Beer, historians tell us, is the oldest alcoholic beverage in the world. Some believe that it was known even to the cavemen. Beer is made from fermented grains of various kinds, usually malted barley...
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For meat-eaters, steak is the ultimate meat — and good steak goes for big bucks. Sure, there are franchise operations — like Outback, for instance, whose thousand-plus U.S. locations make it...
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Steakhouses may share some DNA with the chophouses of London, which date back to the late 17th century. While they’re widely copied around the world today, at heart steakhouses are uniquely...
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More than 17 million Americans can claim Italian descent. The majority of them have origins in southern Italy, and they settled mostly in the Northeast, California, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and...
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Many of the foods we eat are named after various cities or countries around the world — English muffins, French toast, crab Rangoon, pad Thai, Polish sausage, Peking duck, and so on. Scholars call...
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