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Joe's 14th Street: The Neighborhood Pizzeria Fights Back

The blobs of fresh white cheese on Joe's "Fresh Mozzarella" slice look like fluffy cartoon clouds against an angry red sky. No doubt that the neighborhood pizzeria, once a leading dining institution in all five boroughs, has been undergoing a decline lately at the hands of fast-food franchises, do ... More >>

Workers Strike Across the City in Biggest Fast-Food Strike in History

It was still dark when the fast-food workers began gathering outside the McDonald's just north of Times Square yesterday morning. Carrying signs that read "Strike for higher pay for a stronger New York," they lined up outside the restaurant, where workers from the night shift were still on the job. ... More >>

Domino's Founder Sues Over Contraceptive Mandate

Domino's Pizza founder and Roman Catholic activist Tom Monaghan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week, suing the government over its contraceptive mandate. Monaghan does not currently own Domino's -- he sold the company back in 1998 -- but the 75-year-old is bringing attention to the fact that ... More >>

Fast-Food Workers Walk Out Across NYC, Demand Higher Wages

Newly formed strike-organizer Fast Food Forward is coordinating a protest with hundreds of the city's fast-food workers today, beginning with the 280 Madison Avenue McDonald's at 6:30 this morning, where employees walked out demanding better wages. More strikes are expected today at noon in Penn S ... More >>

Hey, Ladies: Religious Groups Still Want To Control Your Vagina (And In Other News, Grass Is Green)

Talk about timing! Shortly after Centers for Disease Control stats indicated that 37 percent of U.S. births are unintended, a Conservative Christian group is trying to block the White House Policy which makes insurers cover birth control, set to go into effect Aug. 1.

Tejal Rao at Calliope; Robert Sietsema at Food Gallery 32

Tejal Rao hits up French country-bistro fare at Calliope in the East Village. Although there were a few glitches in the service, she is overall impressed: "Pity the person who orders the roast chicken, a breast covered in a glorious, impossibly golden skin, beside a cigar of rich, confit-stuffed cab ... More >>

Domino's Introduces Gluten-Free Crust

Domino's Pizza is jumping on the gluten-free bandwagon. The chain restaurant has partnered up with the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness and will be rolling out a gluten-free crust. Ingredients: rice starch, water, rice flour, olive oil, and potato starch. "Domino's new Gluten Free Crust pi ... More >>

It's Official: The Word 'Artisanal' Is Now Meaningless

Remember our look at "handmade" cloning last week? Josh Ozersky explores the meaning (and loss of meaning) of the handmade-small-batch-artisan language: It obvious to everyone, of course, that "artisan," when applied to Dunkin' Donuts bagels or Tostitos chips or Domino's pizzas, is a laughably tran ... More >>

Is New York Really in a Bagel Crisis?

Ezra.Wolfe / Flickr​The New York Post raises the question today of whether New York is in the midst of a bagel crisis, now that H & H has shuttered and the city's old time bagel makers have long been replaced by the automatic bagel machine. The paper's intent on calling it a crisis, although ... More >>

Ian Chalermkittichai 'In' at Spot Dessert Bar; Michael Sullivan 'In' at Veselka Bowery

Ian Chalermkittichai, formerly of Kittichai and currently at Ember Room, is taking over at Spot Dessert Bar from Pichet Ong. Chalermkittichai also recently opened a dessert bar in Bangkok. [Zagat Buzz] Dominique Ansel, the ex-pastry chef at Daniel, is opening Dominique Ansel Bakery this October, wh ... More >>

Pizzeria 900 Degrees Goes up in Smoke

Robert Sietsema​After only four months, the city's strangest pizza appears to be no more.

Domino's Digs up the Noid for One Week Only

​With plunging stocks, riots in London, and America's imploding economy hogging all of the headlines, it's only natural that Domino's Pizza would turn to a defunct corporate mascot to generate some media attention.

900 Degrees' Pie in the Sky

A one-stop pizza place in the West Village tries to give you everything

Facebook Ads To Get Even More Invasive

​Mark Zuckerberg's personal mission to sell thing you things is now even more next-level than it was previously, as Facebook has long delivered "targeted ads" to users based on anything you put into the site, from interests to wall posts to status messages. Now testing with 1% of Facebook user ... More >>

L.A. School District Bans Jamie Oliver, All Reality TV from Schools; Chick-fil-A Isn't the Only One That's Anti-Gay

​The Los Angeles Unified School District has denied a request by Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to film at a local high school, and has banned all reality TV shows from shooting in schools. [Hollywood Reporter] A Finnish group that calls itself the Food Liberation Army has "kidnapped" a statu ... More >>

The Super Bowl Is Stupid

​The Super Bowl is stupid. We say that and we're football fans here at Runnin' Scared. Watching the "big game," as it is referred to by companies attempting to profit off its popularity without paying licensing fees, is a useful exercise in being a stupid person for an entire day. Don't believ ... More >>

Workers Claim Domino's Adds a Topping of Exploitation

Victoria BekiempisWorkers say they're being sliced out of fair pay.​ Several Domino's Pizza employees picketed outside the branch at 200 East 89th Street Monday afternoon, saying that franchisee Dave Melton failed to pay some 10 workers minimum wage and overtime at his four Manhattan stores. T ... More >>

Restaurant A-List Still Excludes Top Chefs; Domino's Launches Low-Fat School Pizza

​Close to 60 percent of the 24,000 restaurants in the city that have been inspected by the city received an "A" grade. So, why are some of the city's most highly regarded restaurants still struggling to even get a "C"? [NY Times] Do you have the time and patience to make your pet's food? Thos ... More >>

Chefs Don't All Have Big Kitchens; Foodspotting Raises $3M

​Think you could be a better cook if only you had a kitchen like a five-star chef? Maybe not. Mehangir Mehta of the newly opened Mehtaphor, Anita Lo of Annisa, and husband-and-wife team Jo-Ann Makovitzky and Marco Moreira of Tocqueville and 15 East are among chefs with tiny apartment kitchens. ... More >>

Cheese Lobby is Making America Fat on Behalf of the Government

​The United States Department of Agriculture is pairing with businesses like Domino's Pizza and Taco Bell to make you fat by loading up already bad food with more cheese. They're doing it through a middle man, Dairy Management, a "marketing creation" of the government, which is responsible for ... More >>

Food Network Launches an App; New Bacon Soda Is Gross

​Domino's Pizza in Japan has announced it will hire someone for a mysterious one-hour job in December that will pay 2.5 million yen ($31,000). [AP] Meanwhile, Domino's in Europe is opening its first store in Germany, in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, this Saturday. [PR Newswire] Food ... More >>

Domino's Gets Extra Cheesy: Launches Six-Cheese Pizza

Un-Photoshopped Domino's pizza.​Domino's has launched a Wisconsin-themed pizza with not three, not four, but six cheese toppings. It's the company's first new product rollout since the whole we-don't-suck-anymore campaign it debuted last year, which has since morphed into the we-don't-Photosho ... More >>

Has Breakfast Pizza Jumped the Shark?

Andrew Childs/flickrBacon Marmalade Picante breakfast pizza from Paulie Gee's​It makes perfect sense as a breakfast food: eggs, bacon, cheese, all baked together on top of fresh dough. And pizza makers are taking note: Motorino's Pizza Al'Uovo was so popular at the Brooklyn location that it wa ... More >>

GM Salmon Almost Here; Park Slope Is Not Getting a Chipotle

​The U.S. is now closer to approving the first genetically modified animal for consumption: salmon that grows twice as fast as conventionally farmed fish. [Wall Street Journal] The first New York City Pizza Run took place at Tompkins Square Park this past Sunday where contestants did four lap ... More >>

Domino's Pizza Worker Not Very Happy With New Recipe, Chooses Arson Instead

Thomas, in uniform.​If you are a disgruntled employee fired from a Domino's Pizza, how do you get even? Well, you should really just walk away, fair and square. But in the case of 24-year-old Jamal Thomas, who'd worked for the chain for two years before being fired this summer, you keep your k ... More >>

Gawker Having Trouble Reading...Themselves

​It looks like Gawker's had a bit of an issue when it comes to repeating themselves (or others!) lately. Attribution issues: they happen.

Ed Cotton In at Plein Sud; Massimo De Francesca In at Nios

​Ed Cotton, formerly of BLT Market, will be the executive chef at Frederick Lesort's new Tribeca brasserie, Plein Sud, set to open next month. [NY Times] Massimo De Francesca, who was previously at Domaso, just outside D.C., will take over the kitchen at Nios, and is planning such new menu it ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Starts a Food Revolution; Michelle Obama Gets Pepsi & Coke Support

​Dozens of seniors in Brighton Beach have been complaining about the poor quality of their daily Meals on Wheels lunches. The problem, they say, started last year when the Jewish Association for Services to the Aged abandoned its own kitchen in favor of catering services. [NY Post] Pepsi and ... More >>

Couples to Splurge on Eating Out this Valentine's Day; Are Fancy Restaurants Getting Louder?

​China is doing a 10-day emergency inspection of dairy products following reports that some of the tainted products that the government ordered destroyed during the food safety scandal of 2008 had been repackaged for sale. [NY Times] Couples are expected to spend less on Valentine's Day gift ... More >>

Fast-food Chains Target Dieters in January; The Price of Tea (in China, Everywhere) to Rise with Shortage

​Just weeks after McDonald's unexpectedly lost its no. 2 executive, Domino's Pizza's CEO, David A. Brandon, has announced he is stepping down from his position in March. J. Patrick Doyle is expected to be named as his successor. [Wall Street Journal] A global tea shortage may worsen this year ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette: Food Blogs Turn into Book Deals; Shutter Shockers

This week in food blogs... Eater rounded up the top 10 "Old Timer Shutter Shockers of 2009," including Chanterelle, The Pink Tea Cup, and The Rainbow Room. Meanwhile, Eat Me Daily rounded up the year's most significant food blog-to-book deals, with Bacon Explosion creators BBQ Addicts and Fancy Fa ... More >>

Domino's to Change Pizza Prototype; Mickey D's Introduces Free WiFi

​McDonald's will soon start offering free WiFi access as part of its transformation from fast-food joint into hang-out destination. As of mid-January, the Golden Arches will lift its $2.95 WiFi fee at 11,000 of its 14,000 U.S. locations. [Wall Street Journal] A new study from the Netherlands ... More >>

Domino's to Introduce New, Presumably Less Crappy Pizza

​To celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, Domino's is revamping its pizza recipe in what its CEO calls "the most aggressive promotion in the history of our company." How aggressive is it?

Italian-American groups, Jerseyans object to MTV's Jersey Shore "guidos"

​Italian-American heritage groups and residents of the Jersey shore are threatening boycotts over a new reality series, Jersey Shore, which MTV is promoting as a look at nine of the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" displaying big hair, good abs, and various forms of lack of continence in a ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette: Best Cookbooks of '09 & The Ultimate Stoner Food

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily rounded up its best cookbooks of 2009, including Hardest-Core Food Porn (The Blackberry Farm Cookbook, by Sam Beall), Biggest Mindfuck (Building a Meal by Herve This), and Best Overall (the Momofuku cookbook). Slashfood discovered the latest frankenfood: Che ... More >>

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey Against Health Care Reform

​Did you once boycott Domino's Pizza because of its support of the anti-abortion movement and other right wing causes? Well, here's another politically retrograde business to add to your boycott list: Whole Foods. According to an article in the current Counterpunch by Russell Mokhiber, of sin ... More >>

Domino's Grossout Kids Face Arrest; TV Chefs on the Naughty List & Bruni Begs: Eat At Restaurants!

"Michael" and "Kristy" from the grossout YouTube video in which two Domino's Pizza employees defile pizza toppings before allegedly serving them to customers face felony charges and, possibly, a civil suit. [FOXNews] Don't do as they say or as they do--TV chefs are spreading their bad habits to vi ... More >>

Edible News Roundup

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Domino Effect

The resurgence of Fats Domino mirrors his hometown's

Tastes Like Turkey

A dough canoe from the Aegean mysteriously disappears

The Triumph of Soul's Second-Stringers

A Stax set predictably thrills, but a set of forgotten Chicago gems hits harder

Hard Listening in the Big Easy

Jazz Fest is on. Clubs are open. The water's receded. The stakes remain high.

Morning Report 4/20/05
Crust Almighty! Rome Delivers a Pope to Domino's

Outré Spaces

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Sex Workers and Alcoholics Dominate Popular Music Once Again

Dogma Days

Catholic Colleges and Academic Freedom

Chile Pilgrim

Ad Nauseam

Do Explicit TV Commercials Make You Want to Pay Up or Throw Up?

Bitter Battle at Domino Sugar

Strike Continues at One of Waterfront's Last Big Factories