Live bugs aren’t generally considered high cuisine. But if they’re live bugs foraged for a restaurant that was voted best restaurant in the world, we suppose someone must be on to something. Noma is a restaurant in Denmark which specializes in what can only be described as modern Nordic cuisine…
London’s famous Smithfields meat market had a gory new addition when the “world’s finest human butchery” opened in one of their stalls last week. The pop-up butcher shop called Wesker and Son was a promotion for the release of a sequel to a popular zombie video game franchise. See Also:…
The internet’s monolithic online retailer, Amazon.com, is poised to begin selling wine through their Marketplace sometime later this month. See Also: –Pavle Milic’s Wine-Making Adventure –5 Ways to Open a Bottle of Wine (Without a Corkscrew) We can only imagine how handy Amazon.com’s customer review system will be once it’s…
The magical combination of hazelnut and chocolate called Nutella is coming to Phoenix from November 24 – 27 in the form of the Nutella Truck, stopping here as part of the nation-spanning “Nutella Breakfast Tour.” See Also: Making Homemade Nutella, with a Little Help from Pinterest Undoubtedly in an effort…
October 1 marks the start of sake brewing season in Japan and is designated International Sake Day by the people who designate these sorts of things. See also: -Sushi Station at Desert Ridge Has Decent Sushi at a Great Price -Eleven Favorite Places for Sushi in the Valley Apparently, at…
New testing techniques offer hope to food allergy sufferers by allowing them to find out if their allergy is to food or to something much more mundane, like birch pollen. As “Here & Now” reported this morning, the new uKnow Molecular Allergy test is revealing that many people who have…
It often seems like our food supply is becoming progressively fraught. There’s pink slime in our beef, ammonia in our pink slime, arsenic in our apple juice and now, arsenic in our rice. The last emerged from a recently released Consumer Reports study that showed that our rice and related…
The internet’s most beloved meat is imperiled by the droughts that have been sweeping the globe this last year. Britain’s pork trade group recently started sounding the alarm stating that a European pork shortage is “unavoidable.” See Also: Ron Swanson Does Bacon Beat Poetry See Also: Everything’s Coming Up …..
The New York Post recently released highlights from a purportedly raunchy Paula Deen gag reel. The gag reel is odd because it flies in the face of the wholesome image Deen’s has cultivated over her many years as a TV personality and cook. See Also: Epic Meal Time Makes Paula…
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated from its original version. We’ve added four more bakers to our already star-studded list of celebrity bakers for Pie Social 2012. Open your pie hole Saturday, November 3, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Second Street and Roosevelt as Chow Bella and Roosevelt…
Beat poetry about bacon delivered by a man whose mustache is so masculine it might very well count as another, smaller man, strapped to his face. See Also: Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale See Also: Joe Arpaio Re-created in Bacon Nick Offerman plays testosterone-laden ultimate man and minor civil…
As far as snack foods go, popcorn is up there in terms of simplicity of production and ease of consumption. But this is the 21st century right? Surely science and engineering have something to offer us beyond picking up our food with our hands like an animal. See Also: New…
The quaffer, which is one typo away from having a hilariously inappropriate name, is a special drinking class developed by a former Arizona State University student seeking a better way to integrate chaser with shot into a single glass. See Also: Olympic Shot Put-er Basically it’s a 1 ounce shot…
Ready to pie one on, Phoenix? Today we’re announcing our line-up of celebrity bakers for Pie Social 2012, to be held Saturday, November 3, 2 to 6 pm on Roosevelt Row. See also: Pie Social in Photos, 2010 See also: Pie Social in Photos, 2011 We’ve got more news, too…
See Also: Colbert Struggles With NYC Soda Ban, Conan Offers Alternatives See Also: Good News: Coffee Might Extend Your Life. Bad News: Sugar Might Make You Dumb Mayor Bloomberg’s high-capacity soda ban has passed through the bowels of the New York City Board of Health and into law, provided it…
See Also: Is Disney’s Princess Candy Packaging Insensitive? We apologize to any beleaguered parents out there but Disney has created a brand new way to separate you from your money via your spawn beautiful smiling children. But take heart, at least there will be adult beverages on hand, a first…
See Also: What’s Your Biggest Kitchen Gadget Regret? See Also: Five Kitchen Tools for Meatless Meals Generally speaking, cooks decry the single function tools in the kitchen because it’s rare that they’re absolutely necessary and it’s rare that you couldn’t get by using something else to do the same job…
See Also: The Highest Sugar High: Simplest Sugars Spotted Around Earth-like Star See Also: “Space Hot Dog” Sent On Journey Into the Unknown, Then Eaten With Curiosity wheels down on Mars, shooting rocks with lasers and doing Myspace self-shots, it’s no surprise that astronomical themes are a happening thing. Earlier…
See Also: This Is Either the Most Awesome Lamb Ever Served or the Most Pretentious Chicago’s Next Restaurant, which sprung from the mind of the man behind Alinea, is bit of a strange bird. The biggest difference is that it’s a restaurant with hard coded reinvention. The theme and menu…
See Also: Banana Cream Pie from Zinburger See Also: Four Favorite Burgers in Metro Phoenix Zingburger, part of the Sam Fox restaurant empire, is doing a special happy hour deal today. From 3 to 4PM you can cruise into Zinburger at the Biltmore Fashion Park and score either a free…
See also: Pie Social 2011 Winners Announced Just two more days to sign up to compete in the hottest pie-baking contest (okay, the only pie-baking contest) in town. Pie Social 2012 will take place Saturday, November 3, from 2 to 6 pm at the RO2 Lot at 2nd Street and…
See Also: Three Egg-cellent Kitchen Science Experiments See Also: The Highest Sugar High: Simplest Sugars Spotted Around Earth-like Star Last week world class cooks and food inclined scientists began descending on the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to teach public lectures on the science of cooking. This is…
