telegraph.co.uk Happy 50th, Barbie. The Telegraph reports that a 2.1 meter tall cake, the biggest Barbie cake in history, was displayed on the First Fleet Steps of the Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia. That should feed all her friends and coworkers, as she's been a pediatrician, Air Force jet pi...

A pint's not a pint, unless it's a pint, right? Häagen-Dazs will shrink its ice cream "pint" tub from 16 to 14 ounces, reports Advertising Age. Mini tub competitor Ben & Jerry's is very critical of the shrinkage, with this to say on their website: One of our competitors (think funny sounding Europe...

From Recipes Choco Tacos can be hard to track down. The preeminent dessert taco makes cameos at select ice cream trucks and gas stations, but other times, you think, "did I dream that?" Since nobody should have to suppress a Choco Taco craving, or embark on a roadtrip to the magical Taco Bells that ...

With the help of the Talk community and some other friends, we've put together a menu of foods word-playing off the Academy Award categories. Yeah, some of them are pretty bad. Films Frosted Flakes/Nixon Mr. Frosty/Nixon The Curious Case of Benjamin Mutton The Curious Case of Beignet Button Corndog ...

Photograph from Henry Ko on Flickr That would be a Canadian pastry made of whole-wheat dough and shaped like a much-respected national symbol: a beaver's tail. Cooked in canola oil, they are served hot with a variety of toppings like cinnamon and sugar, chocolate hazelnut, maple butter, and apple ci...

bevreview.com Starting April 20, Pepsi will sell cans of Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, which will be made with real sugar instead of HFCS. According to an email exchange today with Pepsi-Cola rep Nicole Bradley (inspired by Serious Eaters' questions): "Both products will be offered at ...

This year seems especially hard. So far, all I've got: Frosted Flakes/Nixon. The Curious Case of Beignet Button....

Each week we be round up our favorite posts and recipes from our friends at Apartment Therapy's blog The Kitchn. This week, the Kitchn confronts the fish and cheese debate. Like the no wearing white after Labor Day "rule," it has some offenders. Also on the Kitchn, six approved fondue pots, the fund...

Since the Chicago restaurant L20 opened last May, chef Laurent Gras has been quite the blogger, sharing food porn shots of cotton candy radish soy and Cabernet Sauvignon film. From Chicagoist: "The blog is a great way to share what we’re doing with the outside world..." It's also why he gets only ...

From the Onion: "..'I don't want to take it too close to the Best Buy, though, because all that electronic stuff in there might screw it up.' At press time, Reardon's wife and children were finishing their appetizers while Reardon was still trying to find a way to get off the roof of an Old Navy a q...