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March 8, 2012
Co. Chef Jim Lahey on Homemade Pizza and Infecting Himself with Hookworms
Jim Lahey revolutionized home bread making with the simple, no-knead technique he perfected at the Sullivan Street Bakery. He then turned his attention to pizza, dishing up inventive pies at Chelsea pizzeria Co. And now you can make Jim's pizza at home. He's got a new cookbook out called My Pizza ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Most People With Food Allergies Don't Have Food Allergies
About 20 percent of Americans say that they have food allergies or sensitivities, but only about 3 or 4 percent actually do have them, according to The Washington Post.
Voice Choices
August 24, 2011
The Red Desert
About 20 percent of Americans say that they have food allergies or sensitivities, but only about 3 or 4 percent actually do have them, according to The Washington Post.
Blogs
August 2, 2011
Scaffolding Totally Ruins Bride's Dream Wedding
You know what they say about weddings -- something is bound to go wrong. Ideally it's not because you eat a peanut and die from anaphylactic shock, or because it turns out that your groom had an affair with your mother, though anyone with allergies and/or a certain kind of groom/mother should ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Hillary Clinton May Have Just Been Feeling 'Allergic' in Dramatic White House Photo
This photograph of Barack Obama's national security team during the Osama bin Laden raid, taken by official White House photographer Pete Souza, moved us all. What were they thinking? What were they seeing? Look at those faces! Especially...Hillary Clinton. It's as if she'd seen a ghost. Or f ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
Peanuts Safe From Persecution...For Now
They might be the sworn enemy of moms with pre-school aged kids, but it looks like peanuts haven't gotten the ax just yet when it comes to being served on airlines.
Blogs
April 6, 2011
Hell's Kitchen Is Hot; Sandra Lee to Launch Kitchen Line
Increased food prices have begun to affect diners directly, with restaurants like Per Se and 'wichcraft raising their menu prices. [Wall Street Journal] A group of women at Bravo were said to be bitching about the special treatment Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi gets. (This is news?) [NY Post] He ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Semen Setbacks Plaguing Modern Man
Today we face two terrible, awful, cringe-worthy studies about men and their reported sexual dysfunctions. The first comes via the Daily News (kudos on that stock art pick, guys!), which cites research presented at the European Society for Sexual Medicine that determined that some 16% of the ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Weight Watchers Users Outraged at New Points for Eating Healthy; Has 2010 Been the Year of the Fish Taco?
The ongoing dispute over the licensing agreement between Kraft and Starbucks will be battled in court as Kraft sues. [Nation's Restaurant News] As part of a publicity stunt, the New York Burger Company got a priest, minister, rabbi, and other religious leaders to bless its burger. [NY Time ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
The Great Pumpkin Shortage is Over; Ben & Jerry's No Longer 'All Natural'
The great canned pumpkin shortage of 2009-10 has ended. Nestle, which sells about 85 percent of the canned pumpkin in the U.S., said increased demand was to blame for the shortage. [Boston Herald] As the FDA nears the approval of genetically modified salmon, questions over its safety have ar ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Looming Disaster: Ali Koehler, Best Coast's New Drummer, Is Allergic To Cats
Here's, courtesy the Guardian, is a wildly amusing as-told-to chat with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, who remains somewhat of an obsession for us these days, in large part due to her obsessions: namely, her cats. Lots of choice lines here, from "I'd sooner talk about my cats than my music" ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
BP Oil Spill Affecting the Food Web; Nestlé to Stop Making Health Claims on Kids' Drink
Honest Tea won its bid against Coca-Cola to keep the words "no high fructose corn syrup" on its juice pouches despite it being something of a rebuke of Coke products that do contain the syrup. [NY Times] Apparently, the BP oil spill has already damaged the food web (what scientists used to c ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2010
Hot Bread Kitchen Moves into Harlem's La Marqueta; Prime Meats Takes Plastic
The 4,500-square-foot city-owned La Marqueta market in Harlem will now house Hot Bread Kitchen, a non-profit bakery that trains low-income immigrant women in culinary skills. [Wall Street Journal] It still does not take reservations, but Prime Meats in Carroll Gardens now takes credit cards ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2010
KFC's Double Down Sandwich Run Extended Through Summer; Urbanspoon to Launch Online Restaurant Reservation Service
Opentable.com is about to get some competition. Urbanspoon is hoping to snag its part of the online restaurant reservation market with a new launch today. [Wall Street Journal] The Lion is the latest iconic West Village restaurant from the past to be revived to attract scenesters of the pre ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2010
A Walk in a Corporate Garden; Grub Crawls A-Go-Go
Corporations like PepsiCo have started planting organic corporate vegetable gardens, where employees can weed during breaks and take home the harvest. [NY Times] Grub crawls are all the rage these days. Neighborhoods like South Williamsburg and the Lower East Side are ideal for grazing at a ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
7-Eleven to Roll Out Private-Label Beer; High-Alcohol Wines Appeal (to Some)
A bizarre study has revealed that college students who are addicted to tanning salons tend to drink more alcohol and smoke more pot than their paler peers. [BusinessWeek] 7-Eleven is launching its own private-label beer called Game Day, produced by City Brewing of Wisconsin, that will target ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2010
Allergy Season "Wicked Bad" This Year
If you're planning on a frolic in a field of flowers, bring along some Kleenex.If your eyes are all red and swollen and scratchy and you're feeling generally like you got hit by a truck, or maybe a large, blooming plant of some sort, it's not because you drank too many glasses of the good stu ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2010
Food Photography is Rampant; Induction Cooking Blows Up
Keeping a photographic diary of everything one eats is becoming increasingly popular, with photo-sharing sites like Flickr boasting more than 6 million images tagged with the word "food." [NY Times] For tips on how to shoot your food, try using natural light whenever possible, fill your fra ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2009
SWEET TOOTH
BabyCakes doesn’t discriminate
Blogs
October 20, 2009
More Ideas to Ruin Your Halloween
The conspiracy to render Halloween miserable proceeds apace. For those of us who must politicize everything, including harmless children's holidays, Right Wing News provides "10 Horror Movies For Conservatives To Watch This Halloween." These include The Exorcism of Emily Rose ("treats Christi ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 28, 2009
WALK-IN
The Bard doesn't need a park
Blogs
July 6, 2009
Brooklyn Has Its Own Street Vendor Wars... But Also a Multicultural Fourth of July
The street food vendor wars are not confined to Manhattan. Brooklyn has seen its share of tension between food carts and brick-and-mortar restaurants. Claiming unfair competition, littering, and noise, restaurants in Bay Ridge have asked the city to ban street vendors in the Business Improvement Dis ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2009
"Consumers Don't Want Double Packs"
Quotes from the Food and Agriculture Summit included, "What I think the consumer wants is value at point of sale. They don't want a lot of fancy promotions. They don't want a lot of double packs. They want a reasonable price point." [Reuters] In a survey of 8,203 people across the country, 2.55 p ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2009
Jamie Oliver Good for Kids
In the UK, a new study finds that Jamie Oliver's healthy school dinners significantly improved students' performance in the classroom.[Times of London]The misdiagnosis of food allergies is on the rise, seemingly due to the unreliability of blood tests.[NY Times] Eight O'Clock Coffee's Colombian coff ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2008
No-Nut Baseball
In the UK, a new study finds that Jamie Oliver's healthy school dinners significantly improved students' performance in the classroom.[Times of London]The misdiagnosis of food allergies is on the rise, seemingly due to the unreliability of blood tests.[NY Times] Eight O'Clock Coffee's Colombian coff ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2007
The Perfect Summer Meal -- With a Side of Epi-Pen
In the UK, a new study finds that Jamie Oliver's healthy school dinners significantly improved students' performance in the classroom.[Times of London]The misdiagnosis of food allergies is on the rise, seemingly due to the unreliability of blood tests.[NY Times] Eight O'Clock Coffee's Colombian coff ... More >>
Columns
July 4, 2006
DIY Sex Toys
Why does the purple Magic Marker smell like ass?
Film
June 13, 2006
'The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'
Why does the purple Magic Marker smell like ass?
NYC Life
August 2, 2005
Sesame Sweet
Allergy news bad for sesame lovers
News
February 22, 2005
Pharm Aid
Genetically altered corn, banned for health reasons, pops up in U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala
News
February 13, 2001
Elven Like Me
Otherkin Come Out of the Closet
News
February 6, 2001
People Who Feed 'People'
Freelancers Say They Were Ripped Off
Theater
March 7, 2000
Quiz Shows
Freelancers Say They Were Ripped Off
News
September 21, 1999
Unnatural Disasters
How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

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