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10 Real-Life Etiquette Tips for Men, From a Woman

​Today the Huffington Post has an intriguing entry (with slideshow!) from Daniel Post Senning, who happens to be Emily Post's great-grandson. He explains that etiquette is not just for women, oh no -- it is for men, too, and men, in fact, "are hungry to know what to do, what is expected of the ... More >>

Kathy Griffin On Pizza With Cher And Showdowns With Abdul And Bachmann!

​Chatty Kathy Griffin just called to tell me about the time she confronted Michele Bachmann on an escalator at an official government dinner. You'll spit out your Jamba juice when you hear the result. It's in this week's column, a zingy and hilarious chat with caustic Kathy, who also tells m ... More >>

How To Avoid Alkies And Druggies!

I'm running from you drunks and druggies as fast as I can.

The Week in Food Blogs: Chef Lookalikes, Worst Restaurant Names

This week in food blogs ... Eater rounded up 13 chef look-alikes. Grub Street offered its guide to this summer's restaurant closures. Because chefs need vacations, too. Midtown Lunch got excited about the new Jamba Juice at the Rock Center. Food Republic delivered its 20-strong tasty-jams playl ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Coppelia; Goodbye to TienGarden

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. TienGarden, the vegan restaurant beneath the Bikram yoga studio on the Lower East Side, is closing its doors after 16 years in business. [Low Down NY] Sora Lella, the New York outpost of a Rom ... More >>

Drunk Dial Viral Video Seems Like a Secret Ad For Jamba Juice

The clip above, which was posted to Viral Viral Videos, Daily Intel and has already amassed over 25,000 views since Saturday, purports to be a visualization of a drunken email meant for a boy named Ryan by a girl named Dominic on an inebriated Friday night, after their first meeting, but accidentall ... More >>

Burger King CEO Insults British Food, Women; Josh Ozersky Sings Praises of Margarine

​Bernardo Hees, the CEO of Burger King, recently said of England: "The food is terrible and the women are not very attractive," pissing off both Brits and women. [Telegraph] A roundup of whole chicken dinners includes the "Million Dollar" whole roast chicken for two at Standard Grill and fire ... More >>

Brooklyn Now a Brand; Nate Appleman Still Trying to Sell Us On Chipotle

​In its continued attack on Starbucks, McDonald's has launched maple-flavored oatmeal, available with diced red and green apples, raisins and cranberries, and cream for $1.99. [LA Times] Cooks looking to start their own businesses can pay by the shift to use a 5,500-square-foot commercial kit ... More >>

Presenting The Top 19 Most Ridiculous Lines on Das Racist's Sit Down, Man

​Even casual observers of this blog know of our great esteem for Das Racist, and our great excitement at the release yesterday of their latest mixtape, Sit Down, Man, featuring guests from Diplo to El-P, Boi-1da to Devo Springsteen. Samples include "People Are Strange" and "Return to Innocence ... More >>

Jamba Juice to Expand Coffee & Breakfast; Pizza Hut to Slash Prices

​In an effort to turnaround lagging sales, Jamba Juice says it's considering expanding its new hot coffee service, as well as breakfast, and may add drive-thru locations. [Nation's Restaurant News] Mets slugger Carlos Beltran has had so many meals at Sofrito that he is now a partner in the re ... More >>

Better Iced Coffee at Home; Culinary Camps for Kids

​Family bakery Brooklyn Bread House in the Bronx has become an overnight success for being the only place in New York that sells lavash, a long, thin, chewy flatbread from Armenia. [NY Daily News] Jamba Juice is pissed that McDonald's is now making fresh fruit smoothies, especially now that t ... More >>

Jamba Juice Tries to Stick it to McDonald's, Succeeds Mainly in Grossing People Out

Apparently Jamba Juice isn't happy with McDonald's decision to get into the smoothie business, and is fighting back the only way it knows how: with a sad, rather hastily assembled commercial advertising its own fictitious and thoroughly revolting Cheeseburger Chill smoothie. The problem -- aside f ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Mom Disses Sandra Lee's Lasagna; Shaved Ice Rules

​Matilda Cuomo, mother of gubernatorial candidate Andrew, who is dating Food Network star Sandra Lee, says there's no way her Italian-America son actually enjoys Lee's lasagna, which is made with cottage cheese and tomato soup. [NY Daily News] A survey of passenger satisfaction with domestic ... More >>

Original Cirque Chef Dies; Morimoto Goes Kosher (for a Day)

​Jean Vergnes, the chef who helped Sirio Maccioni open Le Cirque in 1974, died Thursday at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla at the age of 88. [NY Times] Wholesale food prices rose higher last month than they have in 26 years, according to the Labor Department. Vegetable prices, in particular ... More >>

Airline Food Gets Upgraded; Double Down Reviews Abound

​Our Man Sietsema wasn't the only one who tried KFC's Double Down Sandwich (and lived). The Times' Sam Sifton weighs in on the abomination, and Nation's Restaurant News deconstructs KFC's approach to marketing it. [NY Times] [Nation's Restaurant News] As free food on economy flights has now g ... More >>

Project Runway Premiere: Fashion and Fabulousness Review

Emilio's winning entry, via Lifetime. If half the Project Runway contestants designed their clothes as well as their sound bytes, this show would be a gladiator match. But in its seventh season, and second since moving to the Lifetime channel, the show again seems to be favoring attractive, med ... More >>

Fork in the Road Presents: Futuristic Fast Food Mash-Ups

​That taco looks familiar, but where the hell did it come from? Forge ahead to find out. One of the worst aspects of the Age of Bloomberg has been the inundation of the city with nationally franchised fast food restaurants, so that now you can find McDonald's, KFC, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, ... More >>

Chatting With Sarma Melngailis of Pure Food and Wine: Raw Food, Criticism From Vegan Purists, and Global Expansion

​At Pure Food & Wine, the Gramercy restaurant that serves gourmet renditions of organic, vegan, raw food (nothing is heated above 116 degrees), there's a glow coming from the candles being lit in preparation for dinner service on this dark winter afternoon. Dressed in jeans, black sneakers, an ... More >>

The Best Fake Twitter Accounts: Fake Rahm Emanuel, Fake Christopher Walken, Fake AP Stylebook, and More

There are currently more than 120 Joe Jonases, at least 45 George Bushes, and exactly 13 Octomoms on Twitter. And while fake social networking profiles have been around since the dark ages of Friendster, the newest crop of Fakesters have embraced the most massive venue for Internet oversharers, th ... More >>

Obama's Foodie Poems Uncovered; Fast Food Secret Menus Revealed

Wired has the inside scoop on some popular food chains' secret menus: In-N-Out Burger's The Flying Dutchman (two beef patties, two cheese slices, no bun), Jamba Juice's extras of white gummi bears and strawberry shortcake, and Starbucks' Black Eye (a Red Eye with an extra shot of espresso). [Wired] ... More >>

Armed Robberies At Starbucks Locations in the Village?

Poor Starbucks employees: company stocks are dropping, stores are closing, and now, some mad men are robbing them at gun point and herding them into the freezer at locations around the Village.We learned about these armed robberies this afternoon while buying an iced coffee to celebrate the sunny we ... More >>

Things To Rule Out in '09

As 2009 launches into full gear, it's imperative that we all hold hands, sing "Kumbayah," and say a prayer that the following things from last year won't pop up again and taint it.

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