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Entering a grocery store in mid-November can be a hectic ordeal, with aisles packed full of frantic shoppers and much-needed items out of stock. In order to pull off a successful Thanksgiving dinner,...
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Nov. 9 was National Fried Chicken Sandwich Day – an occasion with, as the food service trade publication Nation’s Restaurant News put it, arguably “significantly more weight behind it now than...
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Thanksgiving means turkey in America. It’s so much a part of the Norman Rockwell vision of the holiday that millions of Americans, whatever their cultural origins, have come to accept it as an...
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If you like to go out and have a good time, the bartender is your friend – even, these days, if your choice of beverage is non-alcoholic, as more and more establishments offer delicious, innovative...
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Two of the most disruptive events in American history extended through the 1930s. The Dust Bowl, resulting from drought and blinding dust storms across the land-parched Plains states, and the Great...
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Ohio is in the middle of it all. It borders the Midwest (Michigan and Indiana), the South (Kentucky and West Virginia), and the East Coast (Pennsylvania) – and it’s right across Lake Erie from...
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According to Forbes, there are about 7,000 Irish pubs across the globe and about 4,000 of those are in the U.S. It’s hard to think of an American town of any size that doesn’t have at least one,...
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COVID-19 sure put the damper on our restaurant-going. An estimated 70,000 to 90,000 eating places closed as a direct or indirect result of the pandemic, from fast food outlets to temples of...
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Food fads, like fashion fads, come and go throughout the decades. While there is plenty to gain by introducing a novel food item or concept, even those that succeed often don’t last long. A food...
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Fast food chains employ chefs, culinary consultants, and test kitchen staffs to constantly revise (and theoretically improve) items on their menus as well as to develop new ones — which may never...
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