[1] What you can do with a pot pie for Halloween (photo © D & D | London). [2] There’s no octopus in this beef pot pie; but the crust fits right in with Halloween. Here’s the recipe (photo © Cook’n). D&D London is a collection of 43 diverse restaurants, bars and one hotel […]
[1] Beautiful tomatoes that everyone would buy. Compare to the misshapen tomato below, that no one in a first-world country wants to buy (photo courtesy FAO). [2] Misshapen produce, although tasting just like normally attractive produce, is thrown away (photo © U.C. Davis). [3] Fruits with surface blemishes are not acceptable in first world countries, […]
October 10th is National Angel Food Cake Day. We have a bunch of angel food cake recipes below, and a new one from Cambria Style that debuts today. It’s a special treatment, using a sweet-and-salty profile achieved with preserved lemons in the lemon curd. If you don’t have access to, or don’t want, the preserved […]
[1] The original Cheez-It cake, made to celebrate the brand’s 100th birthday (all photos © Kellogg’s Cheez-It). [2] Take a big bite! [3] The cake was created for the 100th anniversary of Cheez-It. The brand’s history is below. [4] Have some Cheez-Its with your Cheez-It cake. [5] Don’t want to bake the cake? Enjoy Cheez-Its […]
[1] Take a bite of fun fusion food: an apple pie hot dog (photos #1 and #5 © Chevrolet). [2] If you want to make your own apple pie filling, here’s a recipe from Delicious Table (photo © Delicious Table). [3] Or, buy your favorite brand (photo © Market Pantry | Target). [4] Buy bacon […]
July 21st is National Junk Food Day. Is this permission to chow down on our favorite junk foods? And what is junk food, anyway? When we drilled down, we were surprised. We’d always thought of junk food as empty calorie food: candy, chips and other salty snacks, cookies, fast food, foods baked or cooked with […]
May 28th was National Hamburger Day. We used the occasion to try something new: an Asian-fusion hamburger, with a recipe from Hello Fresh. The all-American hamburger sandwich takes on the garnishes of a Vietnamese bánh mì sandwich. The banh mì sandwich was born in the era of French Indochina, when France annexed territories in 1862. […]
[1] One of the best Silvaner wines from Germany (photo © Shop Banquet). [2] Sylvaner is delicious with antipasto, cheese and olives, among many other foods noted below (photo © Vermont Creamery). [3] The best Sylvaner from Alsace—the region spells the wine with a “y” instead of the “i” used in Germany (photo © Domaine […]
[1] A Mexican torta with beef on the tradition bolillo roll (photo © Hofack 2 | Panther Media). [2] Fusion food: an avocado and beef torta on a French baguette, instead of a Mexican bolillo roll (photo © Avocados From Mexico). [3] In Mexico around 1900, the French baguette was shortened and widened into a […]
With so many people going hungry in the U.S. (much less, worldwide), it’s shocking how much food we waste. It’s not just us, the consumers. It’s the whole food chain, from “ugly” produce left to rot in the field, to problems with transportation and storage, to foods thrown out by grocers, foodservice, etc. In fact, […]