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The Surprising Reason Pop-Tarts Even Exist Shutterstock By Courtney Iseman/May 19, 2021 12:47 pm EST Who among us doesn’t have some connection to Pop-Tarts? Maybe you, like Cindy Crawford, flaunted your ability to save them longer than your siblings and then gleefully ate them in front of their Pop-Tart-less faces (via The Chicago Tribune). Maybe the smell of one freshly popped out of the toaster brings back memories of rushed mornings getting ready for school....

The Untold Truth Of Erik Ramirez From Battle Of The Brothers Matthew Eisman/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 1:09 pm EST In Erik Ramirez’s Michelin Bib-recommended Llama Inn in Williamsburg, you can feast on Peruvian ceviches, tamales, and lomo saltado. Bobby Flay has been there (via Instagram), so why not you? The fermented hot sauce that Ramirez started making in May 2021 will be done by July 2021 (via Instagram)....

This Could Be The Most Expensive Alcohol In The World Shutterstock By Sophia Lo/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 3:36 pm EST Are you someone who likes treating yourself to luxury foods and beverages? Although lavish food items can be ridiculously expensive, we have to admit the thought of pairing Iberico De Bellota ham with smoked pule cheese sounds like the perfect start to a fancy evening meal. Basically, some foods and drinks are worth the splurge....

Tom Colicchio Can’t Believe This Food Network Show Got Made Santiago Felipe/Getty Images By Ashley Steinberg/April 30, 2021 2:54 pm EST Tom Colicchio is no stranger to sharing his opinion. One of the celebrity chef’s job titles on Bravo’s “Top Chef” is judge, after all, and he has been on the show since its inception in 2006 (via IMDb). So it’s no surprise he isn’t afraid to share his thoughts outside the kitchen, too....

Tom Colicchio Discusses The New Season Of Top Chef And His Latest Collaboration With French’s - Exclusive Interview Santiago Felipe/Getty Images By Erich Barganier/April 8, 2021 9:55 am EST If you follow the world of food, you can’t miss Tom Colicchio’s larger-than-life personality. As a chef, entrepreneur, food judge, and mastermind behind Top Chef, Colicchio has seen it all during his early years in the trenches as a line chef and at the top as the owner of several large restaurants (via Bloomberg)....

Uber Eats Just Announced A Massive Expansion To Its Grocery Delivery Service Shutterstock By Amy Hamblen/July 19, 2021 9:48 pm EST If you have been wanting to try out the Uber Eats’ grocery delivery service but haven’t been able to because of your location, we may have some good news for you. Uber has just expanded its on-demand and scheduled grocery delivery service to 400 cities and towns across the country....

What Is A Blini And What’s It Taste Like? Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 3:51 pm EST In the world of cooking it is not uncommon to run into an ingredient or dish with which you are unfamiliar. Especially when it comes to international cooking — the diversity of dishes, flavors, profiles and more can trip up even the most devout foodie. For example, do you know what a blini is?...

What Is A Cartouche And How Do You Use It? Shutterstock By Savanna Swain-Wilson/April 15, 2021 4:38 pm EST If you’ve ever known the pain of making a homemade sauce, only for an unappetizing skin to form around your pan, you no longer have to worry. The answer to your kitchen woes was probably right in front of you all along — a cartouche. What is a cartouche, you may ask?...

What Is Farro And How Do You Cook It? Shutterstock By Kirstie Bingham/March 3, 2021 4:23 pm EST Quinoa. Spelt. Farro. According to The Spruce Eats, ancient grains like these started showing up on our grocery store shelves semi-recently, but what exactly are they? And how to cook and eat them properly? The Old Ways Whole Grains Council says ancient grains are defined “loosely as grains that are largely unchanged over the last several hundred years....

What Is Oaxaca Cheese And What Does It Taste Like? Shutterstock By Ceara Milligan/March 18, 2021 9:29 am EST Named after its birthplace of Oaxaca, Mexico, Oaxaca is a stringy semi-soft cheese made from pasteurized cow’s milk. Basically, Oaxaca looks like a tightly wound ball of white string cheese, with a similar texture and taste as Italian mozzarella (via New England Cheesemaking Supply Company). In fact, though contested, Oaxaca is believed to have been influenced by Italian immigrants who settled in Mexico in the 1950s....

Why You Should Think Twice About Following TikTok’s Garlic Nose Trend Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/July 20, 2021 11:34 am EST The internet is full of advice. Need a recent example? Well, many TikTok users have now started vouching for easy hacks to get rid of nasal congestion. One such trick involves shoving garlic up their noses. According to Insider, these viral clips have one thing in common: Adventurous TikTok users let the cloves stay in their noses for half an hour or so....

56% Of People Prefer This Dessert To All Others Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Feb. 22, 2021 6:15 am EST Dessert questions like cake or death and pie or cake draw heated debates. However, when we removed cake and pie from contention in a recent poll and left it to cookies, brownies, ice cream, and other, we found a clear majority rallied behind one undisputed dessert king. When Mashed asked 40,000 people worldwide what their go-to dessert was, of this large group only 8 percent suggested “Other....

Aldi’s Caramel Cashew Ice Cream Sandwiches Are Turning Heads Instagram By Aimee Lamoureux/June 12, 2021 11:30 am EST With the weather warming up, it is the perfect time of year to start stocking your freezer with hot weather treats, and this year, you defintely won’t want to miss Aldi’s tasty new dessert offerings. The grocery store has started selling a deliciously indulgent boutique ice cream treat, just in time for summer....

Alex Guarnaschelli Would Hate To Be Given This Chopped Ingredient Cindy Ord/Getty Images By Naomi Kennedy/Aug. 17, 2021 2:59 pm EST Food Network’s hit cooking competition series “Chopped” is hardly known for being easy. Sure, many of the “Chopped” competitors are seasoned chefs that have spent plenty of time in the kitchen, but there’s no amount of experience that could prepare you for what you might find inside the dreaded mystery basket....

Everything You Need To Know About Fava Beans Shutterstock By Keira Wingate/Updated: July 27, 2021 9:18 am EST Fava beans were on everyone’s radar once Hannibal Lecter said the famous line, “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” Classy meal choice. Fava beans, funnily enough, are a pretty diverse bean, so it’s understandable why Lecter would make that part of his meal. Also known as broad beans, fava beans have been around far longer than Lecter, first being eaten all the way back in 6000 BCE, per The Spruce Eats....

Here’s How Long A Lunchbox Will Keep Your Food Fresh Shutterstock By Hannah Cole/Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 7:33 am EST Packing a lunch for a day at the beach? That’s nothing. Dig out the cooler from storage, load it with some ice, toss in some waters bottles, grab your favorite cold cuts and fruits and you’re good to go. But let’s face reality: If you’re regularly trying to keep a packed lunch cold, it’s probably to make it through the work or school day – and not a day on the shore (we wish, though)....

Here’s What Olympic Weight-Lifting Champs Really Eat Chris Graythen/Getty Images By Lauren Cahn/July 28, 2021 10:28 am EST To paraphrase an old but reliably endearing trope, when Indian weight-lifting silver medalist, Mirabai Chanu, was asked what she would do now that she had powered herself and India onto the Olympic podium at this year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics by lifting a total of 202 kilograms (445 pounds via Calculate Me), her answer was not “I’m going to Disney World” as it might have been in yesteryear....

How To Stop Burning Your Onions, According To Alex Guarnaschelli Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images By Karen Hart/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 10:40 am EST Alex Guarnaschelli is one of our favorite celebrity chefs and judges on the reality food competition show Chopped. Even when she is handing out her culinary critique, Guarnaschelli is honest without being harsh. Not to mention anyone who tells Food & Wine that they can make anything taste good if they have a lemon and jar of mustard in the pantry, definitely knows their way around the kitchen....

Noodles & Company Has Good News For Cauliflower Fans Noodles & Company By Karen Hart/Jan. 30, 2021 10:39 am EST Noodles & Company offers customers a variety of noodle and pasta dishes. Per the fast food chain’s website, the restaurant got its start in 1995 and prides itself on using “authentic” ingredients to make dishes like Penne Rosa, Wisconsin Mac & Cheese, and Japanese Pan Noodles. Over the years, it has added the trendy Zoodles, noodles made out of zucchini, to its offerings, along with cauliflower-infused rigatoni, or Caulifloodles....

The Disappointing Truth About Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory’s Flavored Wallpaper Spencer Platt/Getty Images By Molly Clark/Aug. 24, 2021 2:25 pm EST It was every child’s dream world: one filled with candy. There were chocolate golden eggs, everlasting gobstoppers, fizzy lifting soda, and, of course, one of the biggest hits among the lucky children who found a golden ticket to paradise, lickable wallpaper. This wondrous universe was Willy Wonka’s factory, featured originally in the 1970s film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl (via Foodbeast)....