Tag: Food
You’re not crazy. Those combination fast food joints — like Taco Bell combination Pizza Hut and Papa John’s combination Subway — are grosser than their individual counterparts, and Ben Wellington of I Quant NY has the data to prove it. Though Wellington previously showed that the Department of Health’s grading system is flawed, here’s a pretty useful chart to help you gauge […]
A year since the presentation of the World’s first lab grown hamburger, here comes the In Vitro Meat Cookbook. Using the format of the cookbook as a storytelling medium, the In Vitro Meat Cookbook is a visually stunning exploration of the new “food cultures” lab-grown meat might create. This book approaches lab-grown meat not just from a design and […]
Soft-serve ice cream lovers, rejoice! Haters of chain restaurants, get mad! Dairy Queen, home of the Blizzard®, the Dilly Bar®, and, um, the Oreo® Brownie Earthquake®, is opening its first Manhattan outpost on 14th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues today. Grub Street has details: Here are what are likely to be the two final dispatches […]
Spending any time inside Penn Station is a waking nightmare, and the only respite from the horror is an enormous beer and some fried chicken or a disgusting slice of pizza. Now, it seems the station’s underground oasis of grease and salt isn’t long for for this world. As Crain’s reports, Penn Station’s landlord is forcing the Riese […]
In an effort to get kids interested in programming and engineering, Miguel Valenzuela created PancakeBot, a 3D printer that builds delicious, whimsically shaped breakfast food. Writes Valenzuela on his site: Project PancakeBot aims to help kids inspire kids to create and have fun with their food as well as develop interests in engineering, programming and food […]
When U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm was arrested on federal criminal charges Monday, it was not questionable campaign finances that did him in, nor his televised threats against an NY1 reporter, but alleged tax evasion at Healthalicious, a small Upper East Side restaurant the congressman operated for a time before taking office. With such an inauspicious […]
“By this time he’d opened a new bottle of tequila and was quaffing it down….He sliced the grapefruit into quarters…then into eighths…then sixteenths…then he began slashing aimlessly at the residue.” So goes Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. And there it is. For Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature’s Most Memorable Meals, Dinah Fried took about […]
Here’s the trailer for ‘The Search for General Tso,’ a documentary that looks at Chinese food in America through our country’s favorite dish. Shockingly, it sounds like the American interpretation of General Tso’s isn’t exactly faithful to the original. The film is screening at Chelsea Cinemas on 23rd Street tonight as part of the Tribeca […]
Pity the California GOP. How to reach the kids in a state where only 23 percent of voters under 50 are Republicans? Perhaps taking up the cause of the world’s trendiest hot sauce will help. The Huy Fong Foods Sriracha factory in Irwindale, California was ruled a public nuisance and ordered to halt production recently, […]
What do nearly all cereal box mascots have in common? Besides having catchy, alliterative names like Tony the Tiger, Count Chocula, and Cap’n Crunch, and shilling for high-sugar, low-nutritional value breakfast foods, they’re nearly always looking down. Think about it: there’s Tony, peering at you from on high; the Cap’n, eyes aimed at his spoon […]
