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If You Like Worcestershire Sauce, You Need To Try This Japanese Classic Shutterstock By Sara Cagle/April 16, 2021 1:18 pm EST One Japanese sauce is so integral to the cuisine, so commonly served with its dishes, that it is often referred to simply as so-su, or “sauce,” according to Japanese food blogger Just Hungry. The sweet and savory, thick syrupy, dark brown sauce, the blog explains, is enjoyed with Japanese-style hamburgers, vegetable pancakes called okonomiyaki, and tonkatsu, breaded and deep-fried pork cutlets....

Instagram Is Losing It Over This Photo Of Martha Stewart’s Cat In A Bowl Cindy Ord/Getty Images By Melissa Campana/Aug. 14, 2021 12:51 pm EST Imagine being a house cleaner in the palatial estate that is Martha Stewart’s farm home in Bedford, New York (via Today). Forget the fear of being followed by the domestic goddess herself, on you like white on rice to make sure you’re folding a fitted sheet correctly or organizing the linen closet by the country in which the flax plants were sourced....

Marcus Samuelsson Reveals What Really Happens Behind The Scenes Of Chopped - Exclusive Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images By Alexandra Cass/Feb. 8, 2021 10:15 am EST Turn on the Food Network on any given weekday and there’s a good chance an episode of Chopped will be on. The show has been in production for more than a decade, and there are nearly 50 seasons at this point according to the Food Network. That means hundreds of episodes, featuring thousands of hopeful chefs and as many mystery basket ingredients to overcome....

Mistakes Everyone Makes With Their Egg Salad Shutterstock By Brian Good/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 1:33 pm EST Surf around any food or recipe site on the web, and you’re likely to find a vast number of articles dedicated to the subject of egg salad. By some accounts, egg salad is one of the most searched and Googled foods on the internet, with more than 8.3 million search results coming up for the phrase “egg salad” alone....

Necco Has Good News For Fans Of Its Chocolate Wafers Necco By Aimee Lamoureux/April 20, 2021 2:28 pm EST Necco, which was founded as the New England Confectionery Company in 1901, has been delighting their customers for over a hundred years with their rolls of candy wafers. While their original candy rolls feature eight different flavors of candy wafers, their specialty packs of all-chocolate wafers have long been a favorite of chocolate fiends everywhere....

Rachael Ray Revealed Her Celebrity Crush s_bukley/Shutterstock By Karen Hart/Aug. 25, 2021 10:30 am EST Celebrity chefs are just like us — no, really. Don’t believe us? Well, they start fires in their kitchens or those of other celebrity chefs — yes, Rachael Ray, we are still talking about that time you accidentally set Emeril Lagasse’s kitchen set on fire. Celebrity chefs also burn food from time to time. In fact, Alton Brown says he does this with nuts all the time....

Taco Bell Has Good News For Fans Of Its Toasted Breakfast Burrito Andy Feng/Shutterstock By Gillie Houston/Aug. 19, 2021 2:30 pm EST Taco Bell’s popular breakfast menu — and a craveable lineup of new toasted burritos — is making a comeback across the country, in great news for all fans of the company’s morning offerings. Although the chain, which originated in California in 1962, has been a dominant force in the fast food business for decades, their breakfast menu didn’t come about until recently....

The Big Problem With Costco’s Strawberry Jam Croissants Shutterstock By Felix Behr/May 24, 2021 12:04 pm EST A couple of days ago, Instagram account @costcobuys shared the already circulating news that the store was selling their strawberry jam-filled croissants once more. For $7.99, you could buy a container of 6 croissants. “These are delicious,” they exclaimed. “If you’ve had Costco’s croissants before the strawberry jam is a welcome addition!” Prior coverage of these croissants has proven their broad popularity....

The Biggest Diet Mistake You’re Making, According To Gwyneth Paltrow Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images By Lucia Capretti/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 3:40 pm EST Every wellness guru has their own keys to success to explain their enviable figure, glowing skin, and ageless appearance. Gwyneth Paltrow has definitely kept us all on our toes with the tips she shares on Goop, her often controversial lifestyle and wellness company and website. Along with the advice you can find on her page, Paltrow also published a book called Goop Clean Beauty in which she describes her most successful habits....

The Futuristic Way You May Soon Be Ordering Take-Out From Taco Bell Taco Bell By Felix Behr/April 13, 2021 8:04 am EST On April 14, Taco Bell will launch a fully digital Cantina in Times Square. The ordering and paying, Taco Bell explained in a press release shared with Mashed, can be conducted purely through the digital, billboard-like kiosks that line the restaurant in lieu of analog menu boards. In a different section, with its own pair of doors, lie the Order Ahead Pickup Cubbies....

The McDonald’s Breakfast Burrito That’s Only Available In A Few States Bloomberg/Getty Images By Taylor Huang/Updated: Aug. 23, 2021 10:53 am EST Everyone knows that steak and eggs are a classic brunch pair. McDonald’s has even made a breakfast burrito with this legendary combination! Unfortunately, this special menu item is only available in New York, Arizona, California, and New Mexico, according to The Travel. This isn’t even a new phenomenon — it’s been this way since the burrito was created for the chain in 1991....

The Real Reason Grilled Food Tastes So Good Shutterstock By Keira Wingate/April 21, 2021 12:41 pm EST With the positivity directed toward grilling just about anything these days, it is obvious the flavor is unbeatable. The taste of food changes when heat is applied, according to Napoleon. Take vegetables, for example: A raw pepper doesn’t taste nearly as sweet as a roasted, caramelized, or baked one. The same concept goes for meat....

The Real Reason These French Fries Cost $200 Serendipity3 By Lauren Cahn/July 13, 2021 8:10 pm EST Whoever said “these are some really strange times” must be a genius, which is convenient since it’s something each of us has likely said at some time or another during the pandemic and its tentative, sputtering aftermath. At what other time in history would you have heard – over the course of just 24 hours – that Chicago’s finest Italian restaurant, the Michelin-starred Spiaggia, has closed its doors forever due to the realities of the post-pandemic restaurant industry (via Spiaggia), while New York City’s Serendipity3, which reopened July 9 after its pandemic-related closure (via Serendipity Brands), has not only debuted a plate of $200 French fries but has also earned itself a Guinness World Record in the process (via Guinness World Records)?...

The Reason You Can’t Drink This Liquor From Chernobyl Is Not What You’d Expect Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/May 21, 2021 1:28 pm EST Remember the Chernobyl disaster? If you’re under 40, there’s a good chance you don’t, unless you happened to catch the HBO mini-series. To make a decades’-long story short, a 1986 explosion at a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine was one of the worst not-natural disasters the world has ever faced....

The Surprising Restaurant Problem Caused By The Labor Shortage Shutterstock By Taylor Huang/July 1, 2021 2:23 pm EST Now that many dining restrictions are being lifted, with some restaurants even opening at full capacity, everyone is flocking to their favorite neighborhood joint to have the dine-in experience that was absent for much of last year. However, this desire to eat out again has not been timed nicely — with restaurants across the nation experiencing a worker shortage, according to MSN....

The Truth About The First Wawa Location Facebook By Cristine Struble/Feb. 4, 2021 11:26 am EST Stopping for that morning coffee or filling up the gas tank at Wawa might be part of some people’s routine, but all those Wawa locations did not just appear overnight. Looking back at the brand’s history, the first Wawa location was not the convenience store that customers see today. Although the company has grown over the years, the tradition and heritage from that first Wawa location has remained....

The Unique Butter The Pioneer Woman Uses For Perfect Steak Bryan Bedder/Getty Images By Maria Scinto/May 21, 2021 1:39 pm EST As anyone who’s at all familiar with The Pioneer Woman knows, she and Marlboro Man live on one honking huge cattle ranch that compromises approximately half the state of Oklahoma. Okay, so it’s only a measly 433,000 acres, but still, that’s enough room to run more than a few head of cattle....

The Untold Truth Of Brasserie Les Halles Drew Angerer/Getty Images By Lauren Cahn/July 20, 2021 12:45 pm EST On October 5, 1990, the New York Times “Diner’s Journal” — the paper’s regular column announcing restaurant comings and goings — ran a story about the now-long-gone Chefs Cuisiners Club, a restaurant that took New York City by storm at the time (via New York Times). At the very end, almost as an afterthought, journalist Bryan Miller tossed in a squib about a new “butcher shop and bistro” that would be opening soon on Park Avenue South....

The Untold Truth Of Former White House Chef Andre Rush Monica Schipper/Getty Images By Molly Clark/Aug. 26, 2021 1:11 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The following article includes discussions about PTSD and suicide prevention. Former White House chef Andre Rush is known for his cooking, but he gained notoriety because of his 24-inch biceps. Born in Mississippi, Rush, the youngest of eight children, played football in high school....

This Food Moment Inspired Andrew Zimmern To Be A Chef Cindy Ord/Getty Images By Karen Hart/March 14, 2021 10:53 am EST Andrew Zimmern, who famously hosted Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods, has eaten some weird and adventurous foods, many of which the majority of us will never have the stomach or the courage to allow near our mouths. But how did that sense of gastronomic daredevilry take root? We’ve all seen the classic Pixar movie Ratatouille, and if you haven’t, you should....