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People Understandably Horrified by Yahoo’s Cruel Trader Joe’s Prank
Riots narrowly averted.Yesterday afternoon, the generally straight-shooting Yahoo News ran an article titled "Trader Joe's to Close All Stores by 2017, Plans to Discontinue Products." The story claimed...
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Chipotle Is Testing Out New Cocktails
Get a mezcal margarita with your veggie burrito bowl.Besides potentially prepping a new burger chain that could rival Shake Shack, Chipotle is apparently also preparing to go all craft-cocktail on its...
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McDonald’s Will Unleash a ‘Giga’ Mac on Unsuspecting Population of Japan
Taller, and wider, than the usual Big Mac.Yes, McDonald's can pretend it wants to offer healthier options, but everyone knows the chain works best as a place to pack in as many calories as possible....
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Bagna Cauda Is a Vegetable’s (and Chef’s) Best Friend
A stylized elaboration of Lilia’s bagna cauda.In its original incarnation, the Piedmontese peasant dish bagna cauda, or “hot bath,” is an anchovy-garlic-olive-oil dip served fondue style with hearty...
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Here Are the Food & Wine Best New Chefs for 2016
Wildair's Jeremiah Stone and Fabian von Hauske get the nod.Food & Wine, the very aptly named title where Nilou Motamed was recently tapped as the new editor-in-chief, has announced this year's crop...
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This Year’s IACP Award Winners Include Tacos, The Food Lab, and More
Congrats!Last night, the International Association of Culinary Professionals held the ceremony for its annual awards. Big winners of the night include J. Kenji López-Alt, whose The Food Lab took home...
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First Look at Freek’s Mill, a Seasonal-Small-Plates Joint in Gowanus
Dry-aged duck with refried cranberry beans and rosemary honey.J. T. Stewart and Maxime Giordani named their new Brooklyn restaurant after an actual 18th-century mill that operated along the Gowanus,...
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Blue Bell Finally Identifies One Source of Its Massive Listeria Outbreak
Definitely almost certainly safe again.Blue Bell is still recovering from a months-long recall that nearly bankrupted the company because of a massive listeria outbreak in its plants. Now the...
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Brooklyn’s Speedy Romeo Debuts LES Location With Pastrami Pizza
The Paul's Boutique, which hits all the marks of the classic delicatessen experience.One of Brooklyn's most popular new-school pizzerias is now slinging pies in downtown Manhattan. Last week, Clinton...
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Inside Masaharu Morimoto’s Momosan Ramen
Tonkotsu ramen.Three things you may not know about Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto: If not for a bum shoulder, instead of slicing fish for a living, he might have made his way as a professional baseball...
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Ample Hills Will Open a New Shop Next to the High Line
No complaints here.More good news for New York cream lovers and High Line walking tourists. This May, Ample Hills Creamery, one of New York's most celebrated ice cream makers, will open its second...
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Starbucks Barista Has No Time for Scott Baio’s Lame ‘Trump’ Stunt
Happy Days actor and avowed Trump supporter Scott Baio thought he'd give his local Starbucks a chance to demonstrate its liberal bias this weekend by doing that hysterical thing where you give the...
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A Noma Alum’s Globe-trotting Pop-up Lands in Manhattan
Beetroot and elderflower "charcuterie" from the Hong Kong pop-up. This time, it will be tomato "charcuterie."Dinner at a stranger's house never sounds this good. Chef James Sharman and four of his...
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Ramen Burger Inventor Surprisingly Cool With Red Robin’s Rip-off
Definitely not a threat, Shimamoto says.Over the weekend, Red Robin started serving its clone of Keizo Shimamoto's immensely popular ramen burger, a limited-time item the chain hopes will capitalize on...
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El Quinto Pino Is Serving a Frito-Pie-Inspired Take on Huevos Estrellados
El Quinto Pino's Frito-pie-inspired huevos estrellados. Huevos estrellados are Spanish fried eggs, cut into pieces, and draped over fried potatoes (or sometimes potato chips) mingled with ham or...
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You Can Finally Get an Egg Cream at Yankee Stadium
It's Linda, the egg-cream mascot.At long last, New Yorkers can combine two of their city's most iconic things, baseball and egg creams, while watching the Yankees this season. Christopher Gallo, a...
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The Four Seasons Owners Say They'll Open a Restaurant 5 Minutes Away From the...
Hard to top.After 40 years, Julian Niccolini and Alex von Bidder's lease at Aby Rosen's Seagram Building is up in July of 2016, and that means the end of The Four Seasons, at least as so many know and...
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Famed Olympian and LGBT Activist Greg Louganis Will Get His Own Wheaties Box
He's part of the "legends" series.Four-time Olympic gold medalist, and the only male to sweep the diving competitions in back-to-back Olympics, Greg Louganis is back in the public eye thanks to HBO's...
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KFC’s Latest Marketing Gimmick: Making Its Food Taste Good
Re-Colonelized.KFC has announced it's embarking on a distinctly McDonald's-y turnaround plan to make its food seem edible desirable once again. The company says customers should already see signs of...
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Transgender Man Says Whole Foods Co-workers Called Him ‘It,’ Files Lawsuit
Sensitivity training allegedly didn't stop the abuse.On Saturday, former Whole Foods employee Victor Alexander King filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court alleging that he suffered daily...
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