We all know how well tacos and tequila go together. And there’s nothing quite like an ice-cold, salt-rimmed margarita to add a splash of flavor to your Mexican takeout night. Beer and birria? Definitely a winner. But hear me out… What about washing down your next carnitas burrito with an exquisite bottle of grenache? The […]
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You can find them at most stores. A big pack of breaded chicken patties that come frozen, and can be cooked or reheated in the oven, or microwave. They’re probably not that great for you, but when times are tough, or things are hectic, they are an answer to an easy and filling meal. If […]
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After holding their own in the vicious world of chicken tenders, causing straight-up pandemonium in the fried chicken sando market, and killing it with the side options (Cajun fries? Red beans and rice? Come on!) it appears that Popeyes is making a play in the dessert game. McDonald’s has soft serves and sundaes, Wendy’s has […]
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Nestlé Prepared Foods has recalled more than 700,000 pounds of frozen pepperoni Hot Pockets that may contain pieces of glass and hard plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said on Friday. The recall was issued after Nestlé received four separate consumer complaints of “extraneous materials” in pepperoni Hot Pockets, the […]
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TikTok, the food platform of the people, features cooking videos of all flavors, from Chinese cottage core to tiny baked potatoes. I’m not a user of the platform, but I enjoy watching these cooking TikToks when they are shared with me or land on my Twitter timeline; sometimes they even inspire my own cooking endeavors. […]
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I’m a straight-up salsa snob. What makes one a snob of salsas? Well, for one, I make my own (and think you should too). I’m also Mexican, so I have a cultural connection and a high bar for authenticity. In fact, until very recently, I’ve never even felt the need to buy a bottle of […]
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Shake Shack just delivered one of the best fast-food chicken sandwiches currently on the market. Trust me on this, I don’t throw around chicken-based praise lightly and I’ve been at this game for a long time (in internet years). I was there in the trenches during the insanity that was the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich rollout. […]
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One of the small joys I’ve found during the pandemic is visiting my local and most favorite coffee shack. We all know what a coffee shack is — it’s the little tiny house-like-structures in parking lots, on the sides of the road, dotting nearly every corner in any Alaska town. It feels like everyone has […]
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While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the World at Home invites you to channel the spirit of a new place each week with recommendations on how to explore the culture, all from the comfort of your home. There are worse places to be […]
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NewsOne Featured Video After landing a huge investment from mogul Jay-Z, a Black-owned business has garnered more support from other stars. According to Forbes, Rihanna and H.E.R. have invested in Denise Woodard’s health-conscious brand Partake Foods. The Series A financing round builds upon an exceptional year for Partake, whose products can now be found in […]
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With COVID-19 cases on the rise, businesses across the country – especially local restaurants – have once again been forced to close their doors. Many shuttering for good. According to a September 2020 analysis by Yelp, Hawaii, California, and Nevada have the highest rate of permanent restaurant closures, with Los Angeles having the record number […]
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When I first heard about Pizza Hut’s Nothing But The Stuffed Crust pizza I was a non-believer. You probably are, too. Not because Pizza Hut is trying to sell people the best part of their Stuffed Crust pizza, that actually makes sense. But because of the presentation of the product — a regular pizza-looking pizza […]
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NewsOne Featured Video A Black entrepreneur is on a mission to combat food insecurity in Chicago. According to Block Club Chicago, Liz Abunaw is opening a fresh food market to ensure that residents on the West Side have access to affordable and healthy food options. “From a social infrastructure standpoint, a grocery store is part […]
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Michele Miller, of Bayside, N.Y., was infected with the coronavirus in March and hasn’t smelled anything since then. Recently, her husband and daughter rushed her out of their house, saying the kitchen was filling with gas. She had no idea. “It’s one thing not to smell and taste, but this is survival,” Ms. Miller said. […]
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Kalifornsky Kitchen has a special guest this week. Megan Pacer, who covers happenings on the Southern Peninsula for the Homer News, is weighing in on Cornish pasties with me. Growing up, these savory hand pies were a staple. My grandma and mom would make them in big batches and freeze them, popping them in the […]
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We’ve all been there: dunking on a younger sibling or cousin for celebrating their gross high school relationship “monthiversary” at Olive Garden because they think it’s fancy. And we’ve been the roasted cousin in that scenario, too. Accidentally believing that chain restaurants are the height of fine dining is a rite of passage, precisely because […]
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Gift-giving is hard. We all like to think of ourselves as the sort of ultra-compassionate, sensitive friends who know a person’s desires better than they know them themselves, but — judging from the gifts we get — we’re probably just as bad at the whole rigamarole as everyone else. Unless you’re Tom Cruise or Jack […]
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RIO DE JANEIRO — After years of whipping up large vegan meals for an ashram in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro, Luiza de Marilac Tavares found her life upended, and herself out of a job, when the pandemic forced the center to shut down. She started cooking from home, hoping to make ends meet […]
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An animal rights activist posed as the incoming CEO of pork giant Smithfield Foods and tricked a Fox Business TV show into giving him a platform to say the treatment of workers and animals at their plants “poses a serious threat in effectively bringing on the next pandemic.” Early Wednesday morning, “Mornings With Maria” host […]
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Shrimp is America’s favorite seafood. They are simply delicious cooked many different ways, and are a fast and easy protein to add to a meal. My favorite ways to enjoy them are in a pot of gumbo, poached for a shrimp cocktail, and battered and deep fried to a golden brown and served with lemon […]
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Predicting food trends is a dubious exercise in any year, but those who dabble in the dark art of culinary prognostication have never faced a landscape harder to read than 2021. Most forecasters agree that the pandemic and the stumbling economy will not deliver a year of frivolous food or “breakout” cuisines. There will be […]
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LONDON — Britain was all but cut off from the rest of Europe on Monday, with flights and trains banned by some 40 countries and freight deliveries halted at French ports, as its neighbors tried desperately to stop a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus from leaping across the English Channel. The sudden disruption left Britain […]
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In the grand pantheon of salad dressings, French dressing can be easily forgotten — a sticky, sweet, carrot-colored blend overshadowed by America’s undisputed heavyweight champion of dressings, ranch. But the federal government has shown great interest in the humble dressing, painstakingly regulating since 1950 the ingredients that it must contain and revising the rules at […]
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There are some things in things in life that are just better together. You know, ice cream and cake. Netflix and chill. Bonnie and Clyde. Sports and beer. But then there are those splendors of the world that are mighty forces all on their own. Then — when paired with another individually great thing — […]
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2020 may have been the year of our collective discontent, but it was also our year in the kitchen. 54% of Americans report cooking at home more this year; 46% report baking more. As soon as the lockdowns started in March, Google searches for terms like “sourdough” and “banana bread” absolutely skyrocketed. People couldn’t eat […]
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At the end of each year, Spotify releases personalized lists of the songs and artists that users listened to most over the last 12 months. There’s no algorithm to count exactly how many times the Food staff made the recipes below in 2020, but consider it the NYT Cooking version of the streaming giant’s end-of-year […]
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In unfavorable reviews, culinary diction escalates into a form of operatic invective. “Dry” turns to “dusty” or “desiccated.” “Oily” balloons to “oleaginous.” “Sour” curdles to “mouth-puckering.” Why simply call a soup “bitter” when you can hit a harsher note with “acrid” or “astringent”? Some takedown reviews read like a vindictive thesaurus entry: “brown mucoid gloop”; “congealed, […]
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In unfavorable reviews, culinary diction escalates into a form of operatic invective. “Dry” turns to “dusty” or “desiccated.” “Oily” balloons to “oleaginous.” “Sour” curdles to “mouth-puckering.” Why simply call a soup “bitter” when you can hit a harsher note with “acrid” or “astringent”? Some takedown reviews read like a vindictive thesaurus entry: “brown mucoid gloop”; “congealed, […]
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I love receiving intricately decorated cookies around Christmastime. Growing up we would spend hours baking and decorating sugar cookies with colorful globs of royal icing. But now that I’m an adult, I’ve realized I hate decorating cookies and I’m not good at it either. I don’t have piping precision or the attention span, and if […]
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I hesitate to say it, both because I’m dubious that progress will continue apace and because I don’t want to jinx anything, but there were more than a few silver linings for Indigenous people in America in 2020. A fair number of hope-inducing bright spots. That’s despite a pandemic that often disproportionately affected our communities, […]
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Is Torchy’s Tacos the new Chipotle? No really, we’re asking. Those among us who have visited the Austin-based chain swear by the Torchy’s “Democrat” and “Republican” tacos (the former being an avocado-heavy barbacoa taco; the latter being a modified sausage-dog) and rave about the jerk chicken with mango sour cream. Their positive sentiments seem to […]
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