A Moscow restaurant blew $70,000 on a caviar eating contest. The winner, 49-year-old businessman Alexander Valov, manged to bolt down more than a pound of caviar (500 grams) faster than any of his competitors. How long did he take? Only one minute and 26 seconds…
We’ve all experienced coffee fatigue. That moment at the front of the Starbucks line when you’re prompted to make your selection and you blank. I had a soy frappuccino yesterday didn’t I? And the day before that? Same thing, and the day before that? You panic, gripped by the existential…
The video above, set to some jaunty steel drum music, appears to depict the consumption of Burger King’s newest monstrosity. Unsatisfied with introducing the bacon sundae for testing, Burger King has decided to push their extremist bacon agenda overseas. Their next target: Japan…
It would appear that the food industry has a problem being honest with consumers when it comes to labeling. Fish are mislabeled, lean finely textured beef is only grudgingly being labeled, and so on. But most of that pales in comparison to the financial ride consumers are taking on Kobe…
I recently saw two grown men in a college science class get into a heated debate over which Pop-Tart flavor was the best. One man insisted that strawberry was the best, the other that brown sugar cinnamon ruled supreme. The debate raged for at least 20 minutes and it was…
The CDC is tracking a sushi centered salmonella outbreak that has sickened 116 people so far. Of that number, 12 were sick enough to be hospitalized. The CDC has only interviewed about half of the people affected by this outbreak but among those people 91% reported eating sushi prior to…
Last month we noted that celebrated Momofuku chef David Chang would be squaring off in a fried chicken competition against musician and neophyte food entrepreneur Questlove. Good natured smack talk was traded via twitter and terms were agreed upon. In the event of Chang’s loss, Chang would put Questlove’s chicken…
First cupcake ATMs, now a small army of sushi making machines? If the retro “News of the World” style music doesn’t get you then just wait until the 0:40 mark, whoever edited this video wasn’t afraid to lay down some funky beats. The sushi making machines featured in this video…
A less than scientific survey from CouponCabin says that nearly 1/3 of respondents refuse to leave a tip if they receive below average service. The survey further claims that 20% of respondents only tip out of a sense of obligation. There were a few other juicy tidbits in the press…
Editor’s Note: The truffiere that was afflicted by disease was incorrectly identified as being in Oregon. The truffiere was actually located in North Carolina. Local entrepreneurs Aaron and Liz Eckburg of Go Lbs Salt announced plans recently to found the southwest’s first commercial truffiere, an orchard for truffles. Due to…
In what is likely the most definitive proof that the era of reality television needs to come to an end, Deadline is reporting that work has begun on a bacon reality TV show. Apparently, the show will focus on the exploits of Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow, two Seattle based…
None of these rares species of reviewers will be a surprise to many of you. Who hasn’t seen a mated pair of couponus savus pouring over a menu trying to find the perfect mixture of appetizers, entrees and desserts to maximize their Groupon? Or seen a herd of yelpus complainus…
We’ve talked about Henry Hargreaves’ work before. In contrast to his radioactively colorful rainbow food, this gallery is darker by degrees. “No Seconds” features simply arranged death row meals. Serial killer John Wayne Gracy’s meal, seen above, might make you leery of making a late night trip to satisfy your…
Talk about food porn. If you head over to Amazon’s contest page (login required) you can check out all 27 of the entries in the “Most Delicious Magazine Cover” contest. Eater noted that Saveur accounts for more than a quarter of the total of the candidates. While there are some…
The presentations from the first Ignite Food are now online for your viewing pleasure. There are 18 in total; we’ve pulled three of our favorites. Ignite Phoenix is like our own hometown TED talks. A diverse range of speakers are given five minutes to make an “elevator pitch” for something…
Chow recently compiled a list of the 40 words they wish would go into the woods and make wounded animal noises. We’ve taken a look ourselves and have to agree with their consensus, particularly in light of Laurie Notaro’s stable of doomed food words. Indeed, we see now that we…
Editor’s note: To clarify the relationship mentioned below, Moody held a pop-up dinner at Posh; he was not employed by Posh. We have probably moved past the point in which reasoned debate will enter the furor over pink slime, but some people are going to try. Chef Dan Moody, who…
The tacocopter, a GPS guided taco delivery service, is reported to be a hoax. Sadly, a classic case of too good to be true. While TacoCopter isn’t going to become a reality anytime soon, TacoCopters’ founder Star Simpson told Wired that it was more of a thought-provoking idea than an…
It would appear that the internet sensed Laurie Notaro’s unconstrained loathing for foodies and unleashed its own critique of food fetishists. Behold the Lonely Island-esque work of The Key of Awesome! and American Hipster and rejoice. Lampooned: Aggressive food photography, obnoxiously long descriptions, and the uncontrolled urge to document everything…
Why is the Swedish chef stuffing a Costco flat of popcorn into the microwave? Probably because he heard the findings announced by a researcher from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. In short: Air-popped popcorn is not only delicious but also contains high concentrations of a type of anti-oxidants called…
Over the weekend, NPR reported on a company in San Francisco that is providing a service sorely needed in homes around the country. Culture Kitchen seeks to put bored grandmothers and housewives, well versed in the cooking arts of their home countries, to work teaching the current generation how to…
British company HotCans has been selling self-heating meals for decades, nearly three, to be exact. Their latest marketing push, however, is brand new; they are trying to bring self-heating meals out of the bunker and into your kitchen. Each HotCan looks like a double wide food can. Inside, an actual…
