What Is Allspice And How Do You Use It? Shutterstock By Michael La Corte/Aug. 12, 2021 12:00 pm EST Often conflated with other spices that have a similar warming quality and slightly spiced fragrance and flavor, allspice can slip under the radar. Many people aren’t clear at all about what exactly allspice is: it is a blend like five-spice powder? What does it taste like on its own? How is it used?...
What’s The Difference Between Green And Black Plantains Shutterstock By Lucia Capretti/April 23, 2021 2:11 pm EST Perhaps you have already come across something looking strikingly similar to bananas in the supermarket. Those would be plantains. Unlike the familiar yellow fruit most of us know well, plantains are not typically eaten raw, according to Livestrong. Their starchy texture and bitter flavor are off-putting. Plantains are sometimes called “cooking bananas” for good reason (via The Spruce Eats)....
What You Need To Know About The Recent Frozen Shrimp Recall Shutterstock By Sydney Rende/June 29, 2021 4:29 pm EST Multiple brands of frozen cooked shrimp are being recalled after the Food and Drug Administration reported a potential salmonella contamination, according to Delish. So far, six people across the country have reported illnesses in connection to the recall. According to the FDA, the affected products were in circulation across the country from late December 2020 to late February 2021, which means if you bought a bag of frozen shrimp in the last year, you should stop whatever you’re doing and go take a look at it (but please don’t put it anywhere near your mouth)....
Adam Richman Says This Is The Worst Food He’s Ever Eaten Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/May 15, 2021 12:14 pm EST Taste can be incredibly subjective. And while we often look to chefs and TV personalities to tell us what is good and what is not, taste is in the tongue of the beholder. According to Amateur Gourmet, this subject has been debated time and time again, arguing that some in the cooking world agree that there are certain universal truths about flavor, like the so-called fact that “sweet things and creamy things go well together....
Copycat Papa John’s Breadsticks Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Updated: June 15, 2021 10:18 am EST Why is it that when you’re dining at a Mexican restaurant, it’s so hard to avoid filling up on chips and salsa, at South Asian restaurants, it’s all but impossible not to nosh on too much naan, and at Italian restaurants, it’s a truly heroic act to resist eating an entire basket of fresh breadsticks?...
Costco Fans Are Obsessed With This Cheesy Black Truffle Seasoning Bloomberg/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/March 22, 2021 1:51 pm EST Costco is undoubtedly one of the most impressive retailers in the entire country. For one, it has a plethora of options for its customers. As per Eat This, Not That!, the brand also has a clever strategy to keep its customers coming back for more. For example, Costco has a section that’s basically meant for essential household products called “triggers,” while others sections showcase some sweet deals that are only around for a short while and are aptly named “treasures....
Fans Of Popeyes’ Biscuits Won’t Want To Miss This National Biscuit Day Deal Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/May 14, 2021 1:03 pm EST If the main reason you go to Popeyes is for the sides, then you are in luck. In honor of National Biscuit Day on May 14, the chain has just announced they will be giving away a free biscuit and a small drink to customers. To receive one of their flaky, buttery biscuits and the drink for free, Popeyes fans simply have to make a purchase of $5 or more through the app or online, and use the promo code #sodry when checking out, according to People....
Grocery Stores Have Increased The Price Of This Type Of Food By Almost 20% Shutterstock By Lauren Rothman/May 7, 2021 2:01 pm EST Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts in the field of the global food supply chain have warned that pandemic-related difficulties such as labor shortages and production roadblocks would drive the price of groceries up (via NBC News). Now, it appears, that day has come. According to Bloomberg, new data from NielsenIQ shows that out of the 52 categories examined, 50 of them are more expensive at grocery stores across the country, including bagels, donuts, fruit, and meat — pretty much everything we buy on the regular … great....
Here’s How McDonald’s Is Celebrating Lunar New Year Bloomberg/Getty Images By Maria Scinto/Feb. 5, 2021 11:29 am EST How’s this new(ish) year been working out for you so far? If flipping the calendar from December 2020 to January 2021 didn’t quite work the miracles everyone was hoping for, don’t worry, we’ve got another shot at a new year: Lunar New Year, coming up next week. According to China Highlights, February 12, 2021 marks the first day of the Year of the Ox (most of 2020 was the Year of the Rat)....
Here’s How Much Cake Boss’ Buddy Valastro Is Worth Today Paul Archuleta/Getty Images By Ralph Schwartz/Updated: Aug. 14, 2021 5:32 pm EST Buddy Valastro has built an empire out of sheet cake, Rice Krispies Treats, and fondant. The host of the hit reality show Cake Boss started humbly enough. According to a Valastro biography on his bakery’s website, he got his start helping out at his father’s bakery at age 11....
Here’s How Much Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s Wedding Cake Cost Hadrian/Shutterstock By Molly Harris/Aug. 24, 2021 4:17 pm EST Choosing a cake design and flavor might be one of the toughest decisions for any couple while planning a wedding. But for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the world was watching their big day, and everyone wanted to know the details. The couple selected a baker, Claire Ptak, who uses “low intervention” methods and organic ingredients while bucking royal tradition (via Brides)....
Here’s What Happens To Your Teeth When You Drink Coffee Every Day Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 1:04 pm EST To drink coffee, or not to drink coffee? For most of us, that’s not really something we ponder. We either need our daily dose of the stuff in order to function or we pass it up entirely in favor of another beverage — we don’t waste time dithering over it....
Here’s What Happens When You Drink Too Much Kombucha Shutterstock By Lucia Capretti/May 13, 2021 1:52 pm EST By now you’ve most likely come across kombucha, whether in the supermarket where it’s packaged in colorful bottles with enticing names, or maybe a friend excitedly showed you their scoby. Time explains that kombucha is a fizzy carbonated natural drink using black or green tea as the base, accompanied by sugar and a colony of live organisms known as scoby (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast)....
How Gordon Ramsay Reacted To Brutal Restaurant Reviews Roy Rochlin/Getty Images By Melissa Campana/March 18, 2021 10:35 am EST When life hands you lemons, fry up some cod and throw chips in there with it, mate. Gordon Ramsay, celebrity chef and the picture of cool, calm, collectedness, probably said this at some point in his life. Not one to overreact, chill-as-a-dill Ramsay is famously slow to anger, often opting for the path of least resistance when challenged....
Mistakes You Are Making With Your Kitchen Herb Garden Shutterstock By Aly Walansky/March 16, 2021 11:42 am EST As people have spent an extended period of time at home this past year during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, home cooking has become increasingly popular. At the same time, people are trying to limit trips to the grocery store, so it’s difficult to stock up on fresh herbs. It can also get expensive very quickly....
Popular Arby’s Menu Items, Ranked Worst To Best Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Arby’s By Kori Ellis/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 2:07 pm EST From the first time Arby’s opened their doors in 1964, this fast food restaurant has been known for their amazing roast beef sandwiches. More than 55 years later, there are over 3,300 locations across the United States and people are still obsessed with their roast beef. What’s the secret to Arby’s one-of-a-kind roast beef?...
Popular Jarritos Flavors, Ranked Worst To Best Shutterstock By Jenny Kellerhals/July 9, 2021 2:28 pm EST Even though Jarritos has been in production since 1950, it only landed in the U.S. in 1988. Since then, it’s grown in popularity and can be found at major grocery retailers. Created in Mexico by Don Francisco Hill, the first flavor of Jarritos was coffee-flavored. For those of us that live and die by cold brew, that doesn’t sound so terrible, but it wasn’t super popular, and so Hill started tinkering with fruit-flavored sodas....
Samin Nosrat Reveals What Really Makes Great Pizza - Exclusive Jim Spellman/Getty Images By Molly Harris/Updated: March 26, 2021 12:32 pm EST It’s probably safe to say that most people at least like, if not love, pizza. Everyone seems to have their preference for a certain pizza type, ranging from the thickness of the crust to just how chewy it is (via Slice Life). Maybe you like a lot of meat toppings or maybe you’re more of a veggie person....
Scandals Krispy Kreme Can Never Live Down Shutterstock By Joel Burrows/July 26, 2021 11:56 am EST Krispy Kreme is more than a company with two misspelled words in its name. In fact, for many, it’s nothing short of a donut juggernaut. According to Insider, the folks at Krispy Kreme make over 20 million of these fried-up desserts every year. This place is pretty popular, too, with over 7.7 million likes on Facebook and big-name fans like actress Reese Witherspoon, who shouted out this organization on National Donut Day over Twitter....
Signs That Your Cookie Dough Contains Too Much Butter Shutterstock By Kalea Martin/May 12, 2021 10:53 am EST Nothing beats taking the first bite of a freshly-baked chocolate chip cookie, especially one that’s perfectly crispy on the outside and ooey-gooey on the inside. Texture is everything when it comes to baked goods, and cookies typically have many of them, depending on the type of dough, the mix-ins, and the amount of time it spends in the oven....
