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Twilight: The Restaurant (No, Seriously): Last year, a female friend who was gaga over Robert Pattinson dragged me kicking and screaming to the first Twilight movie. But I am not flying to Forks, Wash., to eat at the new Twilight-themed restaurant Volterra. Read More...
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The food-movie juggernaut rolls on: A new documentary film from Fredrik Gertten chronicles a nasty bit of food politics. "Bananas!," explores the use of pesticides and whether or not these chemicals caused sterility in Nicaraguan workers. Dole Food. is Read More...
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I just came from a preview of "Food, Inc." to see the clever trailer has already been posted below, but I'll chime in to say it is well worth watching, and the movie even more so. No matter how much you know about this country's industrialized food supply, Read More...
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Domino's pranksters fall: A pair of nasty-minded Domino's workers who videotaped one of them stuffing the pizzeria's cheese up his nose and putting his mucus on sandwiches have been identified by the blogosphere and arrested. Another point for YouTube Read More...
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1. One hundred and twenty-three years ago on Sunday, Dr. John Pemberton first brewed something he called "Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage," to be sold to "scientists, scholars, poets, divines, lawyers, physicians, and others devoted to Read More...
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Our old friend Ethan Book's been wading headfirst into a legislative battle that has small farmers across the country up in arms. And yet the vast majority of consumers who it would affect have no idea this battle's going on at all. (On a quick tangent, Read More...
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Bill Spencer of Windrose Farm, near Paso Robles, Calif. Even if you're anti-organic, it's a great place to visit. Leave it to Cracked.com, of all places, to lay out a cogent and pithy (and, in some places, flawed) argument against organic foods. You ought Read More...
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Filed under: Farming , Lists , How To , Food News , Fall Patience, everyone. It's almost over. As Obama and McCain relentlessly feint and parry towards Tuesday, has any word been volleyed more often than "taxes"? Whether your taxes are, not to mention Read More...
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1. Which of the following is NOT the name of a Chicagoland hot doggery? a. The Wiener's Circle b. Mustard's Last Stand c. The Dog Days of Sumner, Ill. d. Franks for the Memories 2. Why did Church's Chicken remove bacon from its menu in 2004? a. It was Read More...
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Recently, Heather Tyree put up an innocuous post about "political" chocolates that drew some surprisingly vehement criticism. Essentially, the primary complaint seemed to be that a discussion of election-year politics doesn't belong on a food blog like Read More...
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Many of you probably remember the salmonella scare of this summer. At first we were told to stay away from fresh tomatoes, and some restaurants started keeping them out of the food. Finally the FDA said that the culprit was really jalapeno peppers. Because Read More...
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The FDA is warning Americans not to eat fresh jalapeno peppers or products containing fresh jalapenos, including many kinds of salsa, pico de gallo and guacamole. They're now the prime suspect in the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, which has sickened 1,251 Read More...
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Walk for Your Lives! A 5,000-gallon molasses flood in Sugar Land, Texas is sure to inspire plenty of jokes, but let's not forget the Boston molasses flood of 1919, in which over 2 millions gallons of the stuff burst from a tank and killed 21 people. Catfish Read More...
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About three weeks ago Michael Y. Park (the man not the steer) wrote about the recent salmonella outbreak and the connection to tomatoes. At that time there were at least 167 cases located mostly in two states. Fast-forward to an article from June 27th, Read More...
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I know that many Epicurious readers already buy directly from farmers, have a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) subscription, or frequent their local farmer's market. But, after coming across an article yesterday citing research from 2005 saying consumers Read More...
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