How To Spot The Hidden Sodium In Your Food Shutterstock By Jen Peng/May 10, 2021 9:46 pm EST Sodium may be an essential element to our survival, but most of us consume way too much. According to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025, Americans consume on average 3,393 milligrams of sodium a day, though the daily recommended sodium intake is just 2,300 milligrams, or about one teaspoon of table salt....
Impossible Foods Is About To Get More Affordable Bloomberg/Getty Images By Felix Behr/Feb. 2, 2021 5:16 pm EST On February 2, Impossible Foods announced that they will reduce the suggested price of their products in grocery stores across the country by 20 percent. As Dennis Woodside, the president of Impossible Foods, explained in a blog post on the company’s website, this follows two other price reductions the company enacted in 2020: a 15 percent cut for restaurants and another 15 percent cut for distributors....
Martha Stewart’s Secret Method To Ensure Guests Love Her Food Shutterstock By Laine Doss/June 7, 2021 2:43 pm EST If you are tasked with throwing a fabulous dinner party and could get assistance from any one person, Martha Stewart would be a very good choice. The “domestic goddess” has written nearly 100 books on cooking, decorating, crafting, and throwing a party. Her website, marthastewart.com, is a veritable encyclopedia for would-be hosts with tips for doing everything from how to set a table to how to make a pitcher of cocktails....
McDonald’s Is Testing A Chocolatey New McFlurry. Here’s Where To Try It pancha.me/Shutterstock By Sophia Lo/Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 5:11 pm EST Sweet and salty is one of the most delicious dessert combinations, and there’s a reason this blend of flavors tastes that good. If you’re a fan of sweet-and-salty desserts and ice cream, then the newest McDonald’s McFlurry is for you. This McFlurry is still in testing stages, but if you’re lucky and at the right store, you’ll be able to buy a Chocolatey Caramel Pretzel McFlurry....
Pizza Hut Taiwan’s Century Egg Pizza Is Turning Heads Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/July 6, 2021 5:42 pm EST Pizza Hut isn’t exactly a stranger to creating unique and unusual menu items. From their American-style hot dog crust pizza to the Indonesian fish and chips pie to the marmite-stuffed crust at locations in New Zealand (via Delish), the restaurant chain hasn’t exactly shied away from coming up with creative, and maybe even a little crazy, food items....
Read This Before Ordering Delivery From Disney World Shutterstock By Liz Barrett Foster/Jan. 26, 2021 1:25 pm EST How cool would it be to order food from Walt Disney World restaurants without having to buy a ticket into the park? Imagine if you were staying in a hotel nearby or lived down the street and could just open up a delivery app and, boom, it’s Disney for dinner! That would provide access to dozens of restaurants that were previously unavailable to non-ticket holders....
Starbucks China Has Cocktail-Inspired Drinks Not Available In The US Bloomberg/Getty Images By Melissa Campana/March 16, 2021 5:06 am EST If giving up cocktails is something you wouldn’t do for all the tea in China, Starbucks China has got you covered. According to Taste of Home, the coffee giant added a new line of drinks to its Chinese menu in 2019, and although they don’t contain alcohol, each creation was inspired by a popular cocktail....
The Chipotle Missing Employees Mystery, Explained Brandon Bell/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/Updated: June 18, 2021 9:12 am EST As a brand, Chipotle is widely respected for being a reliable name in the fast food industry and serving decadent Mexican dishes to its customers. Chipotle, per its website, especially prides itself on being a brand that does not turn to artificial flavors and preservatives to prepare its meals. Despite being so popular, even a company like Chipotle cannot completely escape controversy every now and then....
The Internet Is Not Okay With This Bizarre Airport Mai Tai Shutterstock By Kirstie Bingham/July 8, 2021 4:13 pm EST Few drinks are as associated with a tropical vacation than the mai tai cocktail. As the go-to drink of tiki bars, it was first created at the Polynesian-themed Trader Vic’s in the 1940s by owner Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron (via Liquor.com). The drink is possibly based on a prior recipe from the ’30s by Donn Beach at his Don the Beachcomber restaurant....
The Real Difference Between A Coddled Egg And Poached Egg Shutterstock By Audrey Michels/March 16, 2021 11:23 am EST There’s so much you can do with an egg. You can fry it, boil it, and scramble it, of course, but with a little extra effort, you can turn your bland breakfast into a gourmet experience. After all, a scrambled egg on toast is comfort food, but a poached egg on toast is just an avocado and a little Sriracha away from an Instagram-worthy meal....
The Real Reason Publix Stores In Florida Have Giant Scales Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 4:13 pm EST The moment you step into a Publix grocery store, you’ll probably notice the massive scale that sits right beside the entrance. These devices look like relics ripped from another era of grocery shopping, and their presence in modern-day stores is actually a nod to a bygone era. Decades ago, you couldn’t buy a home scale to measure your own weight, so people would have to travel to a local store and pay a small fee to use a public scale — affectionally called a people weigher — that was generally stationed outside the doors (via Palm Beach Post)....
The Truth About Bobby Flay’s First Restaurant Ethan Miller/Getty Images By Maria Scinto/Updated: June 1, 2021 5:37 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Long before Bobby Flay started throwing down, he was the boy wonder of the NYC restaurant scene who opened the Mesa Grill at the age of just 26 years old. As Flay told the Wall Street Journal, he dropped out of high school at 17 with no particular dreams of working in a restaurant, but a temporary gig as a busboy turned into a kitchen job which in turn led to his studying at the French Culinary Institute....
The Unique Fries McDonald’s Sold During The 1994 Olympics Shutterstock By Karen Hart/June 19, 2021 2:47 pm EST McDonald’s and the Olympics have a long, storied history that began in 1968, according to Olympics.com. As the story goes, McDonald’s delivered hamburgers all the way to Grenoble, France to U.S. athletes who “deserved a break” that day. The marketing stunt paid off and set the fast food chain on the path to become a sponsor of these iconic games in 1976....
The Untold Truth Of Arthur Treacher’s Shutterstock By Brent Furdyk/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 3:21 pm EST During its heyday in the 1970s, Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips was America’s go-to fast-food restaurant chain specializing in British-style fish and chips. At its peak, recalled a retrospective from MeTV, there were more than 800 Arthur Treacher’s locations throughout America, predominantly in the midwest (no surprise, given that the chain’s birthplace wasn’t jolly old England, but Columbus, Ohio)....
This Is Andrew Zimmern’s All-Time Favorite Hot Sauce Rick Kern/Getty Images By Karen Hart/July 30, 2021 4:38 pm EST Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel’s “Bizarre Foods,” definitely doesn’t shy away from the strange and unusual. Seriously, the James Beard Award-winning chef has noshed down on fuzzy tarantulas, balut, horse rectum, and the list goes on. Zimmern’s palate is either more sophisticated than everyone else’s or his taste buds are just always up for a challenge....
What Are Oyster Mushrooms And What Do They Taste Like? Shutterstock By Michael La Corte/Feb. 7, 2021 2:31 pm EST Mushrooms are pretty unbeatable. There may be no other vegetable that is as versatile, satisfying, and deeply flavorful as a mushroom — regardless of variety. If you’re uninitiated with the wonders of the oyster mushroom, though, then you’ve come to the right place. Gro Cycle states that oyster mushrooms are an edible fungus and “one of the most widely consumed mushrooms in the world....
What Is Cognac And What Does It Taste Like? Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 4:07 pm EST From Victor Hugo’s description of it as the “liquor of the gods,” as quoted by France 24, to blues legend Buddy Guy’s dedication of a song to it (posted on YouTube), cognac comes off as some of the fanciest alcohol you could ever savor. As it should. The Cognac region of France, from which the brandy gets its name, has been cultivating wine since the late third century reign of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Probus, according to Cognac....
What It Means When There Are Black Spots On Your Raspberries Shutterstock By Karen Hart/Updated: July 26, 2021 9:46 am EST Per the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center, the United States ranks third in the production of raspberries worldwide. These delicate fruits can add their sweet flavor to everything from pies, jams, salads, sauces, and smoothies. According to Springmoor, raspberries are a member of the Rosacea family, which also includes roses, blackberries, and apricots....
What You Need To Know About Giada De Laurentiis’ Daughter Jade David Livingston/Getty Images By Naveena Vijayan/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 1:31 pm EST Giada De Laurentiis’ daughter, Jade Thompson, might not have her own solo show on Food Network, but she is a mini celebrity in her own right; she makes frequent cameo appearances in her mom’s various shows. Over the years, fans of De Laurentiis have watched Jade grow from just a toddler eating sugar cookies in season 1 of Giada at Home, to a 12-year-old girl helping her mom bake pizza in season 9....
Why Andrew Zimmern Didn’t Like The ‘Bizarre Foods’ Name Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images By Gina LaVecchia Ragone/May 12, 2021 8:11 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s no secret that parts of our language that were acceptable five or 10 years ago, or even last year, are now seen in a new, sometimes harsher light. Whether it’s “woke” culture or an evolving sense of social justice is subjective, but the fact remains that our vocabulary, and what is considered acceptable or objectionable, is changing....
