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Here’s How Aldi Plans To Become More Sustainable Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/April 9, 2021 1:42 pm EST When it comes to shopping ethically, you can’t do better than Aldi. According to Packaging Gateway, the brand recently did away with plastic straws on all of their UK store-brand drinks in an effort to lessen their carbon footprint. This move came on the heels of recent news that the chain plans to reduce their overall environmental impact by 2025 and has a few key changes in store that can affect the ways we shop (via Supermarket News)....

Here’s How To Tell You’re In A Great Grocery Store, According To Guy Fieri Frazer Harrison/Getty Images By Hope Ngo/June 4, 2021 11:43 am EST If there’s anyone who knows a thing or two about groceries, its Guy Fieri, host of Food Network’s “Guy’s Grocery Games,” which gives contestants a chance to show off their gourmet cooking skills by using ingredients obtained at a grocery store. While Fieri doesn’t normally do the shopping on camera himself, we can only imagine that he’s actually pretty good at hitting the grocery, and because he tells Food Network he always begins at the veggie section, we can understand why he uses the produce section as his gold standard for what makes a great supermarket....

How Long It Really Took To Develop Taco Bell’s Nacho Fries Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/June 10, 2021 2:12 pm EST Taco Bell is certainly no stranger to innovation. It’s not something that happens overnight, but it’s definitely not a foreign concept. In fact, according to Workstream, Taco Bell is actually one of the most forward-looking franchises of 2021, owing their success to innovations in food, tech, and more! According to the VP of Taco Bell’s Insights Lab, Melissa Friebe, they respond to consumer demand — aka giving the people what they want....

How To Win A Year’s Worth Of Free Diet Coke George Frey/Getty Images By Clara Olshansky/Updated: May 3, 2021 8:20 am EST We’ve got good news and bad news. The good news: the Coca-Cola company is giving away a whole year’s worth of free Diet Coke and a special Diet Coke mini-fridge to three lucky winners. The bad news: you can’t actually enter yourself in this sweepstakes. The giveaway is celebrating National Boss’s Day, which occurred on October 16th (via Delish)....

Lizzo’s Almost-Vegan Take On The TikTok Feta Pasta Is Turning Heads TikTok By Kate Hagan Gallup/Updated: Aug. 23, 2021 9:09 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Lizzo is making us dinner as we sit here and drool over this innovative and healthy pasta recipe in “fresh photos with the bomb lighting.” Her recipe consists of “hella basil,” grapeseed oil, cherry tomatoes, garlic, honey, some chili flakes, Banza chickpea pasta, and Spero plant-based goat cheese (via TikTok)....

Rainbow Dessert Recipes You Have To Try Molly Allen/Mashed By Jenny Kellerhals/April 28, 2021 3:55 pm EST Rainbow desserts don’t just exist to taste good. They also inject pure delight into any occasion where they’re being served. Just try not to smile when slicing into a cake that has six different brightly colored layers. Not to mention that the bigger and brighter the dessert, the more attention it’s going to get on social media....

Stanley Tucci’s Signature Tequila Cocktail Uses Only 3 Ingredients Shutterstock By Karen Hart/July 25, 2021 10:55 pm EST Stanley Tucci is a real foodie. If his limited series “Searching for Italy” didn’t tip you off to his love for food, his Instagram account should. Turns out the Oscar-nominated and “The Devil Wears Prada” actor has a penchant for the culinary and for making yummy cocktails. In fact, we are starting to think mixology might be his true love language....

The Best Cake Recipes You Can Make For Any Occasion Molly Allen/Mashed By Molly Allen/Feb. 18, 2021 1:40 pm EST There are plenty of delicious cake flavors out there, and everyone inevitably has their favorite. Whether you’re a diehard chocolate lover, a fan of something light and fruity, or you prefer a Funfetti vanilla cake with plenty of frosting and sprinkles, there’s a cake out there for everyone. Digging your fork into a fluffy, moist slice of cake, whatever the flavor, is as satisfying as can be....

The Strange Hotel Request Padma Lakshmi Made While Filming Top Chef Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images By Ashley Steinberg/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 9:54 am EST Padma Lakshmi is best known for her role as host of the infamous cooking show Top Chef, but if you take a look at her Bravo profile, you’ll find that she also has quite a background in the food industry; the chef touts impressive titles including “Emmy-nominated food expert, television host, producer and The New York Times best-selling author....

The Tragic Death Of Guy Fieri’s Sister Robert Reiners/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/May 19, 2021 3:30 pm EST Television personality, Guy Fieri, has been dazzling fans for a long time with his culinary prowess. According to Insider, Fieri owes part of his success to his parents for teaching him to love food when he was just a kid. “My dad was the one who probably had the most influence on me cooking because he would always challenge me to try different things,” he explained....

The Truth About Chiantae Campbell From Spring Baking Championship, Season 7 Instagram By Ralph Schwartz/Feb. 23, 2021 10:10 pm EST The seventh season of the Food Network’s Spring Baking Championship premiered on February 22, with 11 humble bakers competing for TV-celebrity status and a $25,000 prize. Miami-area baker Chiantae Campbell believes she immediately had what it took to stand about among the other contestants – although she wouldn’t say anything about how well she did on the show....

The Truth About Joey Chestnut’s Feud With Kobayashi Monica Schipper/Getty Images By Pauli Poisuo/March 14, 2021 3:30 pm EST In many ways, competitive eating is like professional wrestling. On the surface, both seem to be all about a bunch of large, sweaty dudes offering simple entertainment for the unwashed masses, but if you peek behind the curtains, they’re complex and dangerous affairs that can easily wreak havoc on a body. Also, both forms of entertainment have their great champions and major stars – as well as huge feuds....

The Untold Truth Of Bryan Ford Instagram By Sara Cagle/Updated: July 14, 2021 9:57 am EST If you’re looking for a gateway to the breads of the world, you’ll find it in Bryan Ford. The professional baker, cooking show host, and cookbook author has made it his mission to reveal that the beauty of bread and pastry extends beyond French croissants and baguettes: It has centuries of tradition in Guadalajaran sandwich shops, Colombian pastelerias, and other corners of the world....

This Is The Best Type Of Flour For Baguettes Shutterstock By Hope Ngo/Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 12:05 pm EST We’d know the difference between almond flour and wheat flour, and we’d likely be able to tell the difference between whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour. But did you know that there’s a whole universe of wheat flours that you’ve probably never even knew about, never mind considered, before? It all comes down to two qualities: protein and gluten....

What Ina Garten Really Thought Of Anthony Bourdain Manny Carabel/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/May 4, 2021 9:43 am EST Ina Garten is a well-respected chef who’s perhaps most popularly known for her show, “Barefoot Contessa.” According to People, Garten is quite easy-going and doesn’t like admiring herself on TV. She may be a celebrity chef, but she doesn’t behave like one and has stayed humble through the years. Here’s an interesting fact: Garten really admires her fellow chef, Bobby Flay, and thinks he’s an inspiring person....

What Is Kratom Tea And Can It Cause Liver Damage? Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 3:54 pm EST As the world wakes up to the benefits of healthy food, certain food and beverage trends have come to light more than ever before. One of those options? Kratom tea, a special kind of beverage that is brewed using leaves from the kratom plant. According to Health, the kratom tree is most commonly found in Southeast Asia....

What Makes Ina Garten’s Carbonara So Unique Shutterstock By Kalea Martin/June 22, 2021 11:57 am EST Despite the simplicity of the ingredients, carbonara is one of Italy’s most untouchable recipes. The perfect carbonara sauce is made up of nothing other than eggs, Pecorino Romano, a little bit of fat rendered out from cooked guanciale, and a bit of starchy pasta water to bring everything together. Add anything else, and apparently it’s not “real” carbonara....

What You Need To Know About The World’s Worst Coffee Competition Instagram By Maria Scinto/Feb. 24, 2021 11:14 am EST Does your biggest kitchen fail involve a complete inability to brew a decent cup of coffee? If your brew is so gruesome that even instant coffee — no, even the instant coffee you buy from Dollar Tree — is a better bet, don’t let it get you down. We are now living in an age when even failure is an art form, as witness, the success of shows like Nailed It!...

Whole Foods Once Held This Guinness World Record Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 3:39 pm EST It wasn’t the battle for the ages, but it did happen. Whole Foods and Canadian food retailer Loblaws contested back and forth for the Guinness World Record for the most Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses cracked simultaneously. In 2008, Whole Foods announced that they would attempt to set the first-ever record for the most wheels cracked at one time....

Why Andrew Zimmern Says Uber Eats Is So Bad For Restaurants - Exclusive S3studio/Getty Images By Jorie Mark/Updated: April 20, 2021 11:12 pm EST To say independent restaurants are having a bad year would be the understatement of the century, if you ask Bizarre Foods’ Andrew Zimmern. With pandemic-related closings and restrictions, about 75 percent of them will go out of business, if the Restaurant Act isn’t passed in the next pandemic relief package pending in Congress, the food icon told Mashed in an exclusive interview....