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Looming Vanilla Shortage Arrives Just in Time to Ruin Ice-Cream Season
That's cold.Get ready to scream: An especially bad harvest has caused the price of vanilla beans to climb nearly 150 percent this year in Madagascar, the world's largest producer of the sought-after...
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PEZ Cancels Easter Egg Hunt After Unhinged Parents Bum-Rush Field
Better luck next year?PEZ had to cancel its annual Easter egg hunt in Connecticut this weekend because, according to reports, parents behaved like wild animals and literally pushed each other's kids....
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Get Ready for ‘Chewable’ Coffee
The tech world continues its project of turning food into drinks and drinks into food.Finally, a tech company has solved the problem of having to drink your coffee. At South by Southwest this year, San...
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FDA Now Says Calorie-Labeling Rule Won’t Go Into Effect Until 2017
Too soon?The food industry's strategy of griping the FDA into submission has paid off once again. Restaurateurs, grocers, and others who sell prepared food have been opposed to a rule requiring them to...
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Inside the New Brooklyn Delicatessen Inspired by Iconic Upper West Side Shops
A bagel with the works from Frankel's Delicatessen & Appetizing.Like all aspiring Jewish-food aficionados who grew up on the Upper West Side, brothers and Brooklyn transplants Zach and Alex Frankel...
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America’s Factory-Farmed Chickens Are Now Developing ‘Woody Breasts’
Maybe time for the other white meat.The poultry industry's newest problem sounds like a textbook case of bad karma: Its billions of factory-farmed chickens are suddenly developing an array of strange...
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Sad Study Discovers Newborns Are Living on Junk Food
Poor kid.Anyone who eats knows junk food is a formidable foe, but leave it to a study on babies' diets to make this depressingly clear: According to the findings, parents' own diets are now such a...
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Starbucks Will Debut Alcoholic Frappuccinos in Japan
You've earned it.Japanese Starbucks locations are about to one-up their American counterparts in the after-hours beer-and-wine department. Tomorrow, wine-spiked Frappuccinos will debut — a world first,...
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Chipotle Goes Right After Shake Shack With Plans for Its Own Burger Chain
Shake Shack's main offering.Chipotle, it seems, is making some serious plans in case this whole burrito thing doesn't work out in the long run: Earlier this month, the company applied for a trademark...
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Smorgasburg’s Outdoor Markets Return This Weekend
Lots to be excited about this year.Glance around outside and you will finally notice some of the first signs of spring. The sun sets later, flowers begin to blossom on trees, some dude on the street is...
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Food Network Will Give Yelpers Their Own Show
Not on this show.Awful Yelpers do not need more incentive to think their thousand-word restaurant burns are making the hospitality industry a better place, but Food Network has nevertheless just given...
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Here’s the New Japanese Water Cake That Will Debut at Smorgasburg
Kind of the exact opposite of a candy-coated milkshake.The home of the ramen burger will now serve as the American launchpad for Japan's strangest dessert yet. When Smorgasburg's outdoor markets return...
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Compassionate Restaurant Owner Installs Street Fridge That Feeds Hungry...
It's been nicknamed the "Tree of Goodness."A restaurateur in the Indian city of Kochi has devised a startlingly simple way to fight food waste and feed hungry people at the same time. The staff at the...
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Manhattan Will Get Another New Jean-Georges Restaurant
This guy is actually everywhere right now.Ever-busy empire-builder Jean-Georges Vongerichten is taking on more New York projects right now than an overcaffeinated version of the Major Food Group. Along...
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‘Fancy’ Mall Chain Ruby Tuesday Accused of Systematically Underpaying Its...
They're working against the clock.Restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday — remember it? — is in the news for one of the first times since pretending to blow up a competitor's restaurant back in 2008, but this...
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson Orders His Flat Whites With an Australian Accent
Ferguson at one of his regular stops, ABC Kitchen.Today Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson begins previews on Broadway for Fully Committed, his first Broadway show in more than ten years, and it just...
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Introducing the Korean French Dip, a Fusion Sandwich We Can Get Behind
Hey, good lookin'.This may be the cleverest advancement in fusion cuisine since the Korean taco. Tonight at 6 p.m., pastry innovator Dominique Ansel will debut his latest sandwich collaboration: the...
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Restaurant Workers Will Get a Big Boost As New York Approves $15 Minimum Wage
Cuomo announcing his support for a $15 minimum wage last September.It's another victory in the fight for $15. New York will become the second state to raise its minimum wage to $15, courtesy of a...
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Grub Street’s Restaurant Power Rankings: Missy Robbins’s Great Week, a Star...
Welcome to Grub Street's weekly survey of the most-talked-about, must-visit restaurants in New York City. The list below features spots both new and old ranked according to one important,...
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Another Wondrous Study Says Coffee Helps Fight Another Form of Cancer
Keep the cups coming, at least till coffee IVs arrive.The good news keeps coming for coffee drinkers. Scientists say there's now evidence that coffee lowers the risk of colorectal cancer, just one more...
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