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One of the year's best sneaks in while you were distracted by the blockbusters

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One of the year's best sneaks in while you were distracted by the blockbusters

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One of the year's best sneaks in while you were distracted by the blockbusters

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The Crimes of Courtney Love

'Times' to Commoners: Go Elsewhere

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In the Mood for Love

Strangers on a train: She enters the cabin at Naples. I smile and nod, wondering if I should've shaved.

Wendy Wasserstein

1950–2006

Feds Say Hams Were for Homeless; New York Fast Food Fries Lower in Fat

A Drudge Report story about the government spending millions of stimulus dollars on pork products has earned itself an angry rebuttal from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who said that some 760,000 pounds of ham were for soup kitchens and homeless shelters. [NY Daily News] French fries at New Yo ... More >>

Food Network to Go Global; Daniel Joins Michelin Three-Star Club

​A group of food corps is launching the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, a national, multi-year campaign to help reduce obesity -- especially childhood obesity -- by 2015. [PR Newsire] A study reveals that customers at fast-food chains, such as McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, and KFC, ... More >>

Krispy Kreme In Doughnut Sludge Scandal; Wendy's Pulls Out of Japan

​Chex cereal sees about half its annual sales occur in the final three months of the year, when party throwers buy multiple boxes -- Corn, Rice, and Wheat -- to make Chex Mix. The brand is now pushing new microwaveable recipes. [NY Times] Krispy Kreme was sued by Fairfax County earlier this y ... More >>

Were Your French Fries Cooked in Corn Oil?; Just How Much Salt Is in Your Favorite New York Food?

​In light of Mayor Bloomberg's plan to cut our salt intake, just how much salt is in New York foods? Delicatessen's bagel and smoked salmon plate has 105 percent of the recommended daily intake, Char No. 4's lamb pastrami sandwich has 92 percent, but Sigmund Pretzel Shop's pretzels only have ... More >>

Tweeting Chefs Are Tricky; More Salami Recalled

​Rhode Island-based Daniele International is expanding its recall of salami products due to possible salmonella contamination. Another 115,000 pounds of salami is being recalled following 1 million pounds recalled last month. [AP] Burger King plans to enter the coffee wars by selling Starbuck ... More >>

Kombucha Makes a Comeback; Mets Get More Fancy Foods

​Mets fans are getting even more reasons to hang out in the Citi Field food court this season. Crab cake sandwiches from Catch of the Day, Disco fries from Box Frites, and strawberry shakes from Shake Shack are among new menu items. And a McFadden's Pub will open at street level. [NY Times] B ... More >>

Wendy's Bacon & Blue Burger Is Not Nearly as Bad as You Might Imagine

​Take a look under the hood: good thick bacon, the mildest blue cheese imaginable, barely distinguishable from cottage cheese, and some other smeary substance of indeterminate composition. Emboldened by my adventure tasting the new Pacific shrimp taco at Taco Bell, I went in search of another ... More >>

Posts of the Week

It's (Good) Friday afternoon, which means it's time to look back on the best posts of the past week: In honor of Passover and Easter, Our 10 Best Fin Fish Dishes. Battle of the Dishes pitted chocolate Easter bunnies from Russell Stover and Jacques Torres against one another. Cocktail culture is t ... More >>

A Glut of Wheat; The Scourge of Tip Jars

​Fast-food chains are recovering from a difficult winter of poor sales with the new season. McDonald's, Wendy's, and Domino's have all seen a spike since the start of spring. [Forbes] Meanwhile, Wall Street analysts say that the restaurant industry's recovery officially started in March, with ... More >>

The Artisanal Deli Movement Has Begun; Are You Cilantrophobic?

​McDonald's will likely reject a proposal put forth by the Humane Society to require that 5 percent of its eggs be cage-free. Burger King, Subway, and Wendy's have committed to buying at least some cage-free eggs. [NY Times] Alliance for a Healthier New York is organizing a soda buyback progr ... More >>

IKEA--Real Meal Deals, Including Babyback Ribs!

​The iconic Swedish meatball platter at IKEA--now only $2.49 on Tuesday evenings, side salad extra. If pressed to name their favorite fast food restaurants in the city, most folks would point to Wendy's or Maoz or Chipotle Grill, but almost no one would recognize the IKEA Cafe in Red Hook, Br ... More >>

The Frankenburger: A McDonald's-Burger King-Wendy's Experiment

​Beware the Frankenburger! It's the slightly scary product of a careful--and often disgusting--experiment to make the tastiest fast-food hamburger possible. If you took the best elements from a Big Mac, a Whopper, and Wendy's Half-Pound Double with cheese, what would you get? You'd get the Fra ... More >>

The Candwich (That's Canned Sandwich) Scandal; China Taints Milk Again

​Real estate investors in Utah were ripped off by a money manager who took their cash to back the Candwich, a canned sandwich. [NY Times] A new study reveals that the more restaurants there are within a five-minute walk of a woman's home, the more likely she is to be fat. [Wall Street Journal ... More >>

Flushing Residents Ask Asian Market to Be Their New Key Food; Competitive Eater Kobayashi Freed

​Condé Nast is turning some of its best-known magazine names into restaurants in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Can a Vanity Fair Café here on U.S. soil be far behind? [Wall Street Journal] The recent closure of a Key Food in Flushing has led residents to ask a new Asian market i ... 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 >>

Five Guys Beats In-N-Out for Best Burger in 2010 Zagat Fast-Food Survey

Five Guys in first place.​Zagat's annual Fast-Food Survey results are out, and guess which chain is now making the country's best burger, according to 6,518 respondents? In an upset, Five Guys unseated last year's winner, In-N-Out Burger. In the mega-chains category, Wendy's beat out McDonald' ... More >>

Giada Denies John Mayer Hookup; People Still Pissed at Cash-Only Restos

​Even Peter Meehan has experienced foodie righteousness gone mad: "What I'm worried about is that as the food thing gets trendier and trendier, at some point the know-it-alls will scare off the casually interested. Maybe even their fellow foot soldiers. Is that sustainable?" [T Magazine] The ... More >>

Wendy's Tries to Class Up Its Fries as Writers Bemoan Foodie Pretension

​The latest illustration of trickle-down foodie fervor comes courtesy of Wendy's, which just debuted a new line of fries. The fries, dubbed "natural cut," differ from the fast-food chain's other species of fry in that they're made from Russett potatoes and get to keep their skins. They're also ... More >>

Tomorrow: 10 Fast Food Offerings That Don't Suck

​Sure, Wendy's chili is totally acceptable, and maybe even good, but is that enough to catapult it into the top 10? Picture this: You're in a car on the outskirts of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, clutching your well-thumbed antique copy of Road Food by Jane and Michael Stern. Where it says there ... More >>

10 Fast Food Items That Don't Totally Suck

​Originating in the world's first hamburger chain, the slider (or "slyder" as they've tried to brand it) at White Castle has a strange and strangely addictive flavor resulting from the steaming of cheap ground beef and onions. Yes, fast food is a great caloric wasteland (we almost wrote "wais ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: The Lineup at Koreatown's Food Gallery 32; Winter's Best Cocktails

This week in food blogs... Eater rounded up 10 famous New York restaurant names found outside the city. Grub Street chatted with Bon Appetit's new editor-in-chief, Adam Rapoport, who thinks he says "tasty" too much. Midtown Lunch got excited about the lineup at the forthcoming Koreatown Food Gall ... More >>

Elevation Burger Escalates Onto West 14th Street

​The Elevation Burger is big and lush, but might remind you of Five Guys. So cheap to make, so easy to sell, hamburgers form a culinary motif of our economically downtrodden age. Stand-alone shops, bistros, and chains dispensing them have increased tenfold over the last five years in the city ... 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 >>

Fatty Foods Can Make You Depressed; Veselka Kiosk at First & First Could Close

​A new study shows that people who eat more trans fats from cheese, milk, or processed foods may have a 48 percent increased risk of depression. [Bloomberg] McDonald's Hamburger University, on the outskirts of Shanghai in China, can be harder to get into than Harvard. [Bloomberg] The Veselka ... More >>

Dee Daa Now Open In Midtown

Zip-a-Dee-Daa​Dee Daa, a "fast-casual" Thai restaurant concept, has debuted in midtown. The menu includes noodles, infused rice dishes, stir-frys, and curries, which come à la carte or in "bundles" with a recommended side.

Do Resto P.R. People Have to Like the Food?; Chazz Palminteri Opens a New York Eatery in Baltimore

​Bruce Buschel continues his rant about restaurant P.R., asking the age-old restaurateur question: does the publicist have to like the food? [NY Times] A California farm has recalled 64,000 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken and pork meals because the broccoli in the packages may be tainted with ... More >>

ARatedOnly.com Launches for All Your A-Rated White Castle Needs

​ARatedOnly.com has announced its new website and smartphone app, each featuring a comprehensive guide to all the Department of Health A-rated restaurants in the city. All your favorites are there: the Wendy's on Flatbush Avenue, Burrito Loco in Greenwich Village, as well as other spots like T ... More >>

Study Finds Foods Labeled 'Organic' Seem Tastier; Parents Parade Their Foodie Tots

​A recent study suggests that consumers thinks foods labeled 'organic' are tastier, higher in fiber, and lower in fat and calories. [LA Times] Wendy's is hoping its natural sea salt fries will take a bite out of McDonald's market share. It reported that in a blind taste test, 56 percent respo ... More >>

Sofrito's Gets Sued; Rabbis Gear Up for Passover

​A state senator has proposed a new bill that would offer tax breaks to New York restaurants that buy locally grown produce, as well as milk, cheese, and maple products. [LoHud] Republicans' budget approved last week proposes to overhaul the $65 billion food stamp program, making aid continge ... More >>

Order Another Venti, While You're at It. Starbucks Is Now the Third Largest Chain

Fast-food frappe​Holy Grande! Starbucks is now the country's third largest restaurant chain, based on domestic sales, having surpassed both Burger King and Wendy's, according to USA Today.

New York City Loses Yet Another Food Plant; Scientists Create 'Super Wheat'

​Maramount Corp., a Sunset Park food production plant responsible for school lunches and homeless shelter meals around the city, is moving to Pennsylvania, leaving more than 140 workers unemployed. [NY Daily News] McDonald's and Wendy's are among fast-food chains that have added new summer sa ... More >>

Review of Wendy's Berry Almond Chicken Salad: Decent, But With Two Big Objections

​What the salad looks like before applying dressing. The food at Wendy's is generally agreed to be the best among the national burger chains. While the hamburgers are much better at such regionals as In-N-Out and Five Guys, Wendy's offers a few maverick items that are actually worth eating. ... More >>

Wall Streeters Like to Spend the Summer Eating Themselves Sick

The new face of competitive eating. It may surprise you.​It seems that professional eaters aren't the only ones with a passing interest in cramming huge quantities of food matter down their throats. Wall Street types, never ones to shy away from the spotlight (or competition), like to spend th ... More >>

Posts of the Week

As we submit to the welcoming embrace of the holiday weekend, let's cast a brief glimpse back at the week preceding it ... The Union Square Café's Carmen Quagliata talks cookbooks, culinary influences, and his favorite and most hated foods. Our 10 Best Classic American Dishes and Where to F ... More >>

The Soda Jerk Returns; Restos Cater to the Calorie-Conscious

​Just as cocktails came back, it makes sense that the soda fountain (where so many bartenders went to work during Prohibition) is also making a comeback across America. [NY Times] As high-fructose corn syrup is increasingly demonized, chefs around the country are creating their own sodas, ket ... More >>

While Americans 'Indulge' With Fast-Food Desserts, Iranians Indulge With $250 Bowls of Ice Cream

​Regardless of what so-called experts say about the impact of posting nutritional information at fast-food and chain restaurants, it seems that most customers aren't patronizing Checkers or McDonald's with the idea that their body is a temple. And so an increasing number of quick-service resta ... More >>

Restos Return from Summer Vacation; Wendy's Redesigns Its Signature Burger

​A Staten Island couple stole some $2.5 million meant for healthy meals for preschoolers by skimming money over five years from accounts at the nonprofit Red Apple Child Development Center. [NY Times] A roundup of cooking classes in the city includes pasta making at The Brooklyn Kitchen, beer ... More >>

The New Dave's Hot 'N Juicy Hamburger at Wendy's: A Very Moist Review

​The new Dave's Hot 'N Juicy is compact, and looks unremarkable from the outside. When Wendy's, in response to falling market share, set out to revamp their burger program, they went about it scientifically, according to a recent USA Today story. If the press accounts can be believed, the Du ... More >>

Michelin Releases Its Best-Value NYC Restos; When a Bad Review Only Makes You Stronger

​New research reveals that major river basins in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have enough water to meet food needs for the entire century. [Bloomberg] In the wake of a rising death toll attributed to tainted cantaloupes, Costco's head of food safety spoke out against the cantaloupe industr ... More >>

Wendy's To Sell $16 Foie Gras Burgers in Japan

​Apparently, a smear of fatty duck liver now makes for an "old fashioned" hamburger. Two years after saying "sayonara" to Japan, Wendy's has decided to return to the island nation, and will try to crack the marketplace by selling $16 foie gras burgers, according to Bloomberg. The flagship ... More >>