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Chocolate, Whiskey, and Cigars at Cacao Prieto This Summer (PHOTOS)

Daniel Preston is not one to screw around, but the self-educated inventor-turned-aerospace-engineer-turned-chocolatier-and-distiller also has a flair for life's finer pleasures. At Cacao Prieto and Widow Jane Distillery, Preston is quietly turning out seriously smooth, well-crafted chocolate, rum, a ... More >>

Our Most Hated Halloween Candy

Trick or--wait, what? You only have Mike & Ike's? No thanks. Oh to be young and have your candy options controlled by those oddball neighbors. We know, it was a drag. But grown-up Halloween means never having to eat anymore off-brand Good and Plentys. So we've taken a Fork in the Road poll to find ... More >>

Hershey's Will Only Use Certified Cocoa

Hershey's is taking a humanitarian step with their latest initiative. The chocolate producing factory has vowed only to use certified cocoa for all of its products by 2020. The initiative is an attempt to help eliminate child labor in regions of West Africa. According to Hershey, their plan should ... More >>

Broadway Musicals I Never Want To See

And yet I can smell them coming... Bluesies: A scaled-down version of Newsies starring the Blue Man Group, this show won't have any singing (the guys never make a sound) and zero dancing (they're always carrying large, cumbersome tubes), but oh, those facial expressions!

Perry-phernalia Block Party: Best & Worst Finds

WORST: A seemingly homemade clock featuring a chocolate donut, Hershey bar, and three semi-wrapped kisses. [click to enlarge] Every year, the West Village's Perry Street Block Association throws an open-air block party, which is more of a down-at-the-heels flea market that a peddler of tube socks ... More >>

Rock Stars Love Boring, Nutritious Food (Except for Courtney Love)

According to a story in Gourmet Live's new "Music Issue," rock stars now have the most boring diets of anyone you know (whole grains, ginger-infused water, potato chips in moderation). But if you read today's New York diet in Grub Street, Courtney Love comes to the rescue with suitably eccentric eat ... More >>

What Gals Really Want for Valentine's Day: Luxury Chocolates

Williamsburg's taciturn Mast Brothers know just what I'm talking about. This time of year always presents a dilemma for straight boys and gay girls: how to celebrate Valentine's Day -- the only holiday focused on carnal love and desire -- with your significant other? Taking her out to dinner is t ... More >>

NYE Guide: Drinks

Pour one out at these mainstays

5 Discontinued Candies That Once Made Halloween Rock

Gone, but not forgotten​Halloween is basically synonymous with candy. Ok, well for adults, it's synonymous with alcohol and slutty costumes. But when we were kids, it was all about candy, candy, and more candy. Yet many of the delicious treats from our youth have been discontinued, and only ... More >>

New York Telephone Operated A Proto-Music Blog In 1978

Well, not exactly—it was a hotline, "Musicline," and those people starved for music news could call it for 10 cents a pop. (For that price back then, you could also mail a postcard or go in on 40% of a Hershey bar.) But it wasn't a dead-in-the-water phone line that would go unupdated for days ... More >>

Battle of the Fancy Madison Avenue Chocolate Bars: Ladurée vs. La Maison du Chocolat (Plus Some Macaron Porn, Too)

Lauren ShockeyCalling all chocoholics​If you're going to spend $10 on a chocolate bar, it had better be a damn good one. Or so you'd hope. But what do you do when the market becomes flooded with overpriced chocolate bars? How can you know how to best blow your weekly paycheck on cacao? Wel ... More >>

There is Nothing Like a Daim

​There is nothing you can name, that is anything like a Daim. Well, almost nothing. We've already explored the bins at Sockerbit, the Swedish candy store that finally rolled into Christopher Street last week. The candies ($13/pound) tend to be either gummies or some sort of hand candies, bu ... More >>

Ti-Grace Atkinson and Nixon's Kiss-Off

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 26, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 43 Just another dirty demonstration? by Blair Sobol "Kiss off you Nixon Suckers, and watch it 'cause Ti-Grace Atkinson has returned." And a stunning return it was, complete with singing, shouting, shovi ... More >>

American Pets Are Almost as Fat as American People

​According to an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, fat America is facing a fat pet problem. Dogs with the unfortunate names (because they're fat) of Hershey, Buffy, and Fridge are pigging out on steak and ice cream and beef and cheese snacks, and this is impacting their doggy waistli ... More >>

Battle of the Valentine's Day Chocolates: Russell Stover vs. Whitman's Sampler

Lauren ShockeyLife is like a box of (V-Day) chocolates?​It's almost time for Chocolate Day! We mean Valentine's Day! For this week's Battle of the Dishes, we're comparing heart-shaped boxes of chocolates--Russell Stover and its drugstore rival, Whitman's Sampler. Two classics which beg the ... More >>

Pop Tarts World Shutters Amidst A Mess of Spin Control

​Way back in September, I wrote a blog post called "Is Pop Tarts World Toast?" saying that the Pop Tarts retail store/cafe on West 42nd street was uninspired and about as empty as my wallet is after a trip to the much better Hershey store. Well, it's toast. I just passed the place--where Po ... More >>

After a Hellish Halloween, Revisiting the Jets Nightmare

​"I don't ever want to play on Halloween again," the Jets Jerricho Cotchery said after their humiliating 9-0 loss to the Green Bay Packers Sunday afternoon. I don't blame him. The way Cotchery played, if someone had tossed him a Hershey bar he would have dropped it. Or perhaps a Butterfingers ... More >>

Bloomberg's Food-Stamp Soda Ban: Illegal, Immoral, Fattening?

​If you've been remotely awake today (or at least clicking on your morning Runnin' Scared links), you're no doubt aware that Mayor Bloomberg has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow New York City to bar its 1.7 million citizens with food-stamp cards from using them to buy soda. "T ... More >>

Chuck E. Cheese Recalls Toys; Forbes Launches Food Site

​Chuck E. Cheese is recalling 1.2 million toy light-up rings following incidents of children swallowing the battery or sticking it up their nose. [Nation's Restaurant News] China warned that the worst offenders of food safety rules would get the death penalty. Two people were already executed ... More >>

Bodega Frozen Treats

King Cone by Good Humor​Sometimes you want a roasted plum People's Pop, but other times you'd just rather stuff your face in a junky sugar-bomb from Good Humor. Any old bodega is likely to have a long, low cooler filled with all sorts of cheap frozen treats--reach in, and what you come up wi ... More >>

Pop-Tarts Pop-Up in Times Square Could Become Permanent (File Under: God Help Us)

oskay/FlickrPop culture.​ Pop-ups are all the rage these days. Independent restaurateurs use them to gauge the temperature of a new market or to test out a new concept. Corporations resort to them as publicity stunts to garner media attention and that holiest of grails for marketers: buzz. Kel ... More >>

Mast Brothers Will Sail to the Dominican Republic. Also, They Wear Beard Nets.

The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo. Last summer, Sarah wrote about how there was something about the Mast Brothers that really bugged her. The above video (from The Scout) may help her put her finger on what that was, exactly. It details the hirsute Williamsburg chocolate artisans' plans to ... More >>

Brick Lane Sells Super-Hot Curry; 97 Orchard Chronicles Tenement-Era Meals

​Roasting a pig in a pit anywhere in New York City is not only a big ordeal, but a fire hazard. [NY Times] A Thai grocer based in the Bay Area is looking to America's Latinos as a large potential market that uses many of the same ingredients found in Thai food. [Wall Street Journal] Brick La ... More >>

Letter Grades May Lead to Frozen Sushi; Fast-Food Chains Embrace Sustainable Fish

​A new iPhone app allows park-goers to order food from the green. CityMint has a GPS add-on that allows delivery people to locate customers anywhere in the park, forgoing the need for a fixed address. [NY Daily News] Jacques Torres may have pissed off Hershey's with his Champagne kiss, but Ge ... More >>

Tavern on the Green to Become Gift Shop; Gordon Ramsay to Move in Next Door to Rival Jamie Oliver

​Food writer and cook Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir Toast will be made into a BBC One drama, and Helena Bonham Carter will play Slater's stepmother. Freddie Highmore, who starred in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, will play Slater. [BBC] With Dean Poll unable to appease f ... More >>

The 10 Worst Things to Eat Around Times Square, NYC

​Want to eat healthy and have a salad for lunch? Here are a couple of your salad bar options at Smiler's Deli. April is the cruelest month, as the poet who wrote Cats once noted, and maybe that's why we're on a negativity binge at Fork in the Road. Last week we put up Our 10 Most Overrated Re ... More >>

Battle of the Chocolate Easter Bunnies: Jacques Torres Vs. Russell Stover

​The two bunnies--Jacques Torres on the left, Russell Stover on the right--face off in a preliminary photo. "In the left corner, weighing in at 4 ounces, the Jacques Torres Easter Bunny," said the white-chocolate ref, pausing a moment to cinch up his licorice-colored pants, then turning towar ... More >>

Project Runway: The True Measure of Tim Gunn's Advice

Jay and his winning design​Michael Kors, resident crepehanger of the Project Runway judge squad, is fond of saying that there are "no rules" in fashion anymore, usually as he is trying to impose improbable new style commands in his monthly Glamour column (wear short-shorts in the dead of winte ... More >>

He Sleeps With the Pringles: 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli, Colombo Crime Family Big, on Killer Diet

​Being charged with five gang land murders that could lead to the death penalty would make anybody nervous. So it's little wonder that Colombo crime family big Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli has been craving a little comfort food while awaiting trial. But, as the Daily News' John Marzulli reports ... More >>

Scientists in th Kitchen; The Cadbury Saga Continues

​Dr. Nathan Myhrvold has a team of 15 people working to create a 1,500-page cookbook that will cover microbiology, food safety, the physics of heat transfer on the stove and in the oven, and formulas for turning fruit and vegetable juices into gels. [NY Times] Following Kraft's recent unsucce ... More >>

Rufus Wainwright's Biggest NY Phobia? Getting Dog Shit on His Sneakers.

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Best Fledgling Local Rock-Star Cheat Sheet and Best Literally Underground Cabaret Show. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. Singer-songwriter Ru ... More >>

Smithfield Foods Getting Out of Hog Business; Zane Lamprey Trades Glass for Fork

​Norman E. Borlaug, a plant pathologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in industrialized food production, which fought starvation worldwide, died Saturday in Dallas. Borlaug felt that environmentalists were hampering world food production by attacking the use of pesticides. ... More >>

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