Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Recipes, Food Oddities, America, Comfort Food, Retro cookery Recently, as I was dipping through a copy of my family cookbook in search of one of my mother's favorite recipes, I took a good, long look at the book itself. In addition to being a nice resource, it is also so...

Filed under: Restaurants, Television/Film, Raves & Reviews, Food Quest, America, Celebrities, Food News For all its vaunted culinary diversity, New York is actually surprisingly provincial. Sure, this is a place where someone can pay $1000 for a plate of paella or $175 for a burger, but many New...

Filed under: British Isles, Restaurants, Food Oddities, America, Europe, Comfort Food, Guilty Pleasures A couple of months ago, I wrote a post in which I tried to touch bottom in the pantheon of disturbing cuisine. While I stopped short of nightmarishly horrifying food, like rotten cheese and duck e...

Filed under: America, Comfort Food, Coffee shops In my ever-increasing attempts to save money, I recently decided to cut back on my coffee expenditures. While I get most of my coffee from my local corner store, where it only costs $1.20 a cup, even that price starts to add up, particularly when I am...

Filed under: Food Oddities, America, Shellfish, Meat, Wild Edibles Late Thursday night, a security guard at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey noticed an unknown man emerging from a restricted kitchen area. The man wasn't a hotel employee, and there was something strange about his...

Filed under: Science, Farming, Business, Vegetables, America, Local Eating, Organic In case you didn't already have enough to worry about, a recent article by the Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology asserts that today's vegetables have fewer nutrients than the ones produced 50 years a...

Filed under: Restaurants, Business, Food Porn , Beef, Food Oddities, Trends, America, Comfort Food, Health & Medical, Fast Food A few years ago, as most of the fast-food chains were working on offering healthier alternatives to their customers, Burger King made a big splash by going in the oppos...

Filed under: British Isles, Business, Candy, Food Oddities, Stores & Shopping, Food Gadgets, New Products, Europe, Comfort Food My daughter is addicted to Dirty Jobs, a Discovery Channel show in which the host tries out the filthiest, nastiest jobs in the country. Watching him work his way throu...

Filed under: Restaurants, Business, America, Comfort Food Recently, Moody's investor service listed several companies that, it predicts, will probably not survive 2009. While most of them aren't all that interesting, three key ones caught my eye, as well as my tastebuds. Not only are they endangered...

Filed under: Dessert, Food Porn, Baking, Food Oddities, America, Comfort Food, Guilty Pleasures, Edible Gifts My wife, who generally avoids anything related to baking, recently showed me a hidden side of her personality. Although she doesn't like to bake, she apparently finds endless joy in the worl...