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Straws made from ice sounded perfect for hazy, humid days in New York City. And Lord knows we've being having plenty of those lately. So imagine my horror when I broke down and went back to ThinkGeek to place my order. Out of stock! Now I'm on a heat-crazed mission to make my own. But how? I guess I need a freezer-safe container with thin tubelike ...

Looking for fun food and drink festivals? Here,some of the best on offer around the U.S. What's happening where you live? Colorado: Crested Butte Land Trust Wine & Food Festival (July 21-25) Louisiana: 8th Anniversary Event of Tales of the Cocktail (July 21-25) Oregon: 23rd Annual Oregon Brewers Festival (July 22-25) Michigan: Taste of Grand ...

Louisiana: Jambalaya Festival (May 27-30) Alaska: Kodiak Crab Festival (May 27-31) California: Garden Grove Strawberry Festival (May 28-31) Missouri: Annual St. Louis Rib America Festival (May 28-31) Ohio: Marc's Great American Rib Cook-off & Music Festival (May 28-31) Wisconsin: World's Largest Brat Fest (May 28-31) California: 24th Annual ...

Massachusetts: Nantucket Wine Festival (May 19-23) Georgia: Tour de Champagne (May 21) California: Cooking for Solutions (May 21-22) Pennsylvania: 27th Annual Rhubarb Festival (May 21-22) Arkansas: International Greek Food Festival (May 21-23) Oregon: 4th Annual Brewer's Memorial Ale Fest (May 21-23) New York: Uncorked! Wine and Cheese Festival ...

Finally, haggis-flavored chocolate: A Scottish chocolate-maker has come up with a unique haggis-flavored chocolate. There's no offal in the sweets, only a range of spices used in haggis, such as nutmeg and pepper, as well as oatmeal. Workers resist beer ban: Workers at the Danish brewer Carlsberg went on strike in Copenhagen last week to protest a ...

Here are a few product reviews posted this week from other blogs we like. Haagen Dazs Rum Raisin Ice Cream is an ex-girlfriend’s favorite flavor. When I see it in the store, it makes me think of her. When I think of her, it makes me wonder if I should friend her on Facebook. [...] Related posts:THE WEEK IN REVIEWS – 3/20/2010 NEWS: ...

I am filled with regret over all the years I wasn't eating mustard. And now that I've discovered just how much I actually love mustard, I can't get enough. That's not entirely true. I can definitely get enough yellow, deli-style mustard, and I can only eat so much Dijon. But, my affection for whole-grain mustard is just about limitless. When ...

The other day I was wondering ... why is there light beer? I say this because I have had light beer maybe a handful of times in my entire life and Foodgoat never buys light beer.  In my limited experience, light beer is ... almost flavorless. That's usually bad, right? Yet light beers account for about 38% of the total beer ...

If whisky puts hair on your chest, I'm not quite sure what will happen if you try this powerful brew. Scottish brewery BrewDog in Fraserburgh, near Aberdeen, has unleashed Tactical Nuclear Penguin on an unsuspecting beer-drinking world. The beer's 32% alcohol content has health officials alarmed. But fear not. The bottles come with a warning ...

Stouts seem to exist at an interesting nexus of flavors. The rich, chocolatey flavor of stout beer makes one think of, well, chocolate, and for that reason it's not much of a stretch to think of it as an ingredient for a beer-y stout cake or ice cream mash-up. And since espresso is such a perfect match for chocolate, the idea of bringing together ...