Yelp has begun outing businesses which solicit for paid positive reviews. Businesses that are found to have participated in “significant attempts to pay for reviews” will be slapped with a “Consumer Alert” for 90 days. See Also: –Are Yelp Extortionists Giving Restaurants the Shakedown? –Ouch! Today’s Hard Lesson on Yelp…
Forks up, Phoenix! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row present the third annual Pie Social Saturday, November 3rd, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. We’ve got an all-star line up of bakers making pies for you to taste, and from now til Pie Social, we’ll introduce…
Preempting Coca-Cola’s polar bear themed holiday advertising campaign, the healthy eating advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest has launched a campaign aimed squarely at the lovable ambassadors of sugary delight. Their campaign called “The Real Bears,” plays on the cute imagery of polar bears living an idyllic…
Forks up, Phoenix! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row present the third annual Pie Social Saturday, November 3rd, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. We’ve got an all-star line up of bakers making pies for you to taste, and from now til Pie Social, we’ll introduce…
At this point we really should not be surprised by what gets sold on eBay and for how much. But even by our jaded standards, paying $9,995 for a jug of McJordan BBQ sauce from the first Clinton administration still seems a little excessive. See Also: –Don’t Eat That: Vagina…
Forks up, Phoenix! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row present the third annual Pie Social Saturday, November 3rd, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. We’ve got an all-star line up of bakers making pies for you to taste, and from now til Pie Social, we’ll introduce…
Salvatore Calabrese mixed up world’s most expensive cocktail at the Playboy Bar in London, which he owns. The single drink, dubbed “Salvatore’s Legacy,” cost more than $8,000 and was mixed exclusively with alcohol 100 years old or older. See Also: –Creating Fall Cocktails with Belinda Chang and Julie Hillebrand at…
Hot Pockets, the official sports food of geeks everywhere, has recently released a truly inspired advertisement. Snoop Dogg Lion has redone “Drop It Like It’s Hot” into the Hot Pocket-friendly “Pocket Like It’s Hot.” See Also: –Don’t Eat That: Vagina Onion Ring Found at Burger King is Now on eBay…
Here is a reason to keep PBS on the air. Professional pithy sourpuss Anthony Bourdain is narrating a new show called “The Mind of A Chef.” The first season, which premieres November 9, will center around Momofuku’s David Chang. See Also: –Lucky Peach Looks Good Enough to Eat: See What’s…
Many of us have experienced the horror that accompanies a bird barreling into a large window and snapping its neck. Not many of us look at the bird and say, “I bet that would grill up nicely with some smoked paprika.” See Also: -$100 a Head Rat Dinner: Survival as…
The BBC is reporting that there are bees in France that are literally puking rainbows into their honey combs. Apparently the bees found their way into the M&M factory’s refuse and gorged on multi-colored sugary dyes. Sure, that’s news but the bigger story that the lamestream media is missing is…
We were all a little psyched to see legislation allowing for the refiling of growlers become a reality. Of course there are significant… logistical concerns we hadn’t taken into consideration. See Also: –Ten Places in Metro Phoenix to Get Your Growler Filled — and Some Handy Tips on the Whole…
At first blush, it seems like the greatest of great deals: Get paid thousands of dollars to gain weight by eating an extra meal every day composed entirely of fast food. The only catch is that to earn the full amount of money, participants have to try and lose the…
Live bugs aren’t generally considered high cuisine. But if they’re live bugs foraged for a restaurant that was voted best restaurant in the world, we suppose someone must be on to something. Noma is a restaurant in Denmark which specializes in what can only be described as modern Nordic cuisine…
London’s famous Smithfields meat market had a gory new addition when the “world’s finest human butchery” opened in one of their stalls last week. The pop-up butcher shop called Wesker and Son was a promotion for the release of a sequel to a popular zombie video game franchise. See Also:…
The internet’s monolithic online retailer, Amazon.com, is poised to begin selling wine through their Marketplace sometime later this month. See Also: –Pavle Milic’s Wine-Making Adventure –5 Ways to Open a Bottle of Wine (Without a Corkscrew) We can only imagine how handy Amazon.com’s customer review system will be once it’s…
The magical combination of hazelnut and chocolate called Nutella is coming to Phoenix from November 24 – 27 in the form of the Nutella Truck, stopping here as part of the nation-spanning “Nutella Breakfast Tour.” See Also: Making Homemade Nutella, with a Little Help from Pinterest Undoubtedly in an effort…
October 1 marks the start of sake brewing season in Japan and is designated International Sake Day by the people who designate these sorts of things. See also: -Sushi Station at Desert Ridge Has Decent Sushi at a Great Price -Eleven Favorite Places for Sushi in the Valley Apparently, at…
New testing techniques offer hope to food allergy sufferers by allowing them to find out if their allergy is to food or to something much more mundane, like birch pollen. As “Here & Now” reported this morning, the new uKnow Molecular Allergy test is revealing that many people who have…
It often seems like our food supply is becoming progressively fraught. There’s pink slime in our beef, ammonia in our pink slime, arsenic in our apple juice and now, arsenic in our rice. The last emerged from a recently released Consumer Reports study that showed that our rice and related…
The internet’s most beloved meat is imperiled by the droughts that have been sweeping the globe this last year. Britain’s pork trade group recently started sounding the alarm stating that a European pork shortage is “unavoidable.” See Also: Ron Swanson Does Bacon Beat Poetry See Also: Everything’s Coming Up …..
The New York Post recently released highlights from a purportedly raunchy Paula Deen gag reel. The gag reel is odd because it flies in the face of the wholesome image Deen’s has cultivated over her many years as a TV personality and cook. See Also: Epic Meal Time Makes Paula…
