How free do you feel to grow and raise your own food? If you’re an Arizona resident, the answer is probably pretty free. Most cities in the Valley allow residents to keep chickens on their property within certain parameters. See also: – Luci’s Healthy Marketplace in Phoenix: What We Bought,…
The Spot: Luci’s Healthy Marketplace, Open Monday through Saturday from 6:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. and Sunday from 6:30 a.m. until 8 p.m. See Also: – The Simple Farm: 2013 Big Brain Awards Finalist, Culinary – ABC Cake Decorating Supplies in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped and What…
Singletons, rejoice! Sir Richard Branson — as in the English business mogul and owner of the Virgin Group — wants to help you get lucky. And not just lucky in a win-the-lottery sense. No, he means Mile High Club kind of lucky. In fact, he’s so dead set on helping…
Because there aren’t enough cheap fast-food options out there already, Del Taco will lower the bar, rumor has it, to compete with McDonald’s Dollar Menu. It plans to introduce a “Buck and Under” menu with options as low as 50 cents because that’s what people want, Del Taco says. See…
People love putting weed in stuff. Just ask the Dutch, who even like to dip their fries in marijuana mayo. But one New York bartender has something better than just weed flavoring to bring to the table. He’s got a scientific way of infusing cannabis into alcohol — and the…
Remember when your only milk options were regular or chocolate? Nowadays we’ve got fat-free, 2 percent, soy, almond, and . . . maybe in the not too far off future: camel. At least that’s what companies in the United Arab Emirates are saying. See also: – Eatmecrunchy Bowl Keeps Cereal…
If you’re a coffee connosieur, you might already have heard about Black Ivory Coffee, which is brewed from beans that have been chew up and pooped out by elephants. Yes, we’re talking about elephant poop beer. Supposedly being inside the giant pachyderms gives the beans extra special smoothness that can’t…
The Spot: ABC Cake Decorating Supplies, Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. See Also: – Cakes Baked in Eggshells – Five Peculiar Finds at ABC Cake Decorating Supplies’ Summer Clearance Sale – Citadelle Plaza Farmers Market in Glendale:…
From the sound of things, the folks over at Budweiser have a lot of free times on their hands. Otherwise there’s no way they would have spent the past three years developing their new bow tie-shaped beer can. See also: – Chow Bella’s Gift Guide for the Hipster – A…
Last time we checked, the most expensive cocktail in the world cost $13,000, but it seems that fancy drinks are a lot like gas: Once prices go up, they never come back down. We guess that means we shouldn’t be surprised to hear there’s a $40,000 drink available these days…
Sure, we all know that at the end of the day, a cold beer can be the key to happiness. But it turns out, you might not necessariuly have to drink the whole thing in order to achieve that effect. See also: – 24 Legitimately Fascinating Facts About Beer A…
If you’ve been to Brussels, you might already know about little Manneken Pis, the “emblem of the rebellious spirit of the City of Brussels” or a fountain of a urinating boy. He’s kind of a big deal over there and, apparently, so are his French fries. Because aside from being…
At 18 years of age, Georgi Readman, from England’s Isle of Wight, has the health of someone more than four times her age. At least that’s what experts say. See also: – Ramen Rematch: Republic Ramen vs. Sushi Ken It’s not because she’s a chain smoker or because she drank…
The Spot: Citadelle Plaza Farmers Market, open Wednesday from 4 until 7 p.m. See Also: – The Meat Shop in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped, and What We’re Still Lusting Over – The Edible Exchange Market in Scottsdale: Local Artisan Foods (and Food Trucks) – Bisbee Road Trip:…
You might have already heard about Natural Harvest, a cookbook that features all sorts of sweet and savory recipes all of which feature one quite special ingredient, sperm. The book was released in 2011 and caused, as you can imagine, quite a fuss. But it seems author Paul “Fotie” Photenhauer…
Breastaurants are a big deal. Just ask Nightline, which did a report about the increasing competition between classic breastaurants (Hooters) and up-and-comers (Twin Peaks, Tilted Kilt). Apparently with the economy in the dumps, these places are fighting tit tooth-and-nail for business. See also: – “Breastaurants” Are Bursting With Profitability -…
There’s plenty of art-related reasons to make a trip to the Big Apple. It’s got the Guggenheim, the Met, and MoMA. And the City That Never Sleeps now is home to the king of latte-art portraiture, Mike Breach. See also: – The Coffee Chop Kicks Off Coffee Class Series at…
People love Nutella — like, really love it. We get that. But to what extent? Apparently, thieves in Germany are willing to go to extremes to get their sticky fingers (pun totally intended) on the chocolate-hazelnut spread. See also: – Making Homemade Nutella, with a Little Help from Pinterest -…
Starving college students have been known to come up with creative ways to get free and/or cheap food. But Tufts University student Maximus Thaler is taking frugal to a whole new level. He and a crew of dumpster-diving hippies friends want to start up a restaurant (read: soup kitchen, because…
The Spot: The Meat Shop, open Tuesday through Saturday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. See Also: – Pop-up London Butcher Shop Offers “World’s Finest Human Butchery” – Ten Favorite Phoenix Meat Shops – Camelback Esplanade Farmers Market in Phoenix: What We Bought, What We Skipped, and What We’re Still…
Film critic Elvis Mitchell, host of KCRW’s pop culture/entertainment show, The Treatment, sat down earlier this year with director Quentin Tarantino to talk about his fascination with using food in movies. Now, if you’re not a student of film you might be confused, thinking, “Wait, Tarantino’s known for that gruesome…
According to an article on a New Jersey news site, a vegan couple dining out at a local Italian restaurant says the restaurant’s owner charged them twice as much as they should have been charged for two pasta dinners. The owner justified the price by the fact that the couple…
