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It’s hard to imagine Italian cooking without tomatoes. From caprese salad and bruschetta to chicken cacciatore, mozzarella marinara, eggplant parmigiana, and many kinds of pizza, they are essential...
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Most people who go to fast food restaurants are aware that they are not likely to get a super healthy, or even mildly healthy, meal. Fast foods are famous for being high in calories, fat, and salt....
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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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Pizza may have been invented in Italy, but we’ve made it our own. It’s been computed that U.S. residents consume about three billion pies per year. There probably isn’t a town of more than a...
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It’s no secret that the restaurant business has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. Restaurants thrive on social interaction and dining room capacity limits and the on-again-off-again bans...
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An earworm is a song or song fragment that gets stuck in your head, on endless repeat, for a day or a week or more. According to the experts, about 90 percent of people experience one at least once a...
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French fries aren’t French, Swiss steak isn’t Swiss, and Mongolian barbecue isn’t Mongolian — or, for that matter, barbecue. These are just three examples of foods with misleading names....
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Is it almost time for us to start going to restaurants again — sitting indoors like we used to, not huddled, bundled up, inside plastic huts on the sidewalk as diners in the colder regions of the...
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The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a serious blow to food and drinking establishments, especially bars. Though over the summer restaurants in many states were allowed to reopen at limited capacity,...
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“There’s one thing that’s really great about waking up early,” the comedian Kathy Griffin apparently once said, “and it’s not jogging or greeting the day — it’s just that that’s...
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Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, with lockdowns and restrictions on eating out, many people have inevitably found new home-bound hobbies to keep themselves busy. While some have made it their...
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Our ideal breakfast in this country consists of scrambled eggs, crispy bacon, toast, and coffee with milk. At least that’s according to research collected by the international data and analytics...
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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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Spring is still almost two months away and the country is still in the midst of the long-predicted winter surge in COVID-19 infections. The severity of restrictions imposed on businesses —...
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The abundance of wine produced around the world today is truly overwhelming. It’s made in every U.S. state (yes, even in Alaska and Hawaii) and in more than 75 countries around the world. There are...
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