While the rain ended up shutting down downtown Phoenix’s Mardi Gras bash at CityScape last weekend, there’s no need to give up on Fat Tuesday completely. King Cake, cocktails, and parties around Phoenix will liven the mood back up, even if there’s no parade. Check out what you can do…
“Yelp Data” has mined its bevy of user reviews and rankings to reveal the absolute top 100 restaurants in the country that you have to try. Unfortunately, only two Arizona spots made the list, but both are in the Phoenix area. Short Leash’s food truck locked in the 81st spot…
When food companies get bored, the results can either be good or bad. While products like watermelon-flavored Oreos and McSalad Shakers might not have remained on menus and shelves long, important junk food inventions like stuffed-crust pizza and animal-style fries would probably never exist without the multitude of failures that…
Trust us, we’ve been there: Wading through Craigslist posts for job leads and getting spammed by job-search sites every 10 minutes for postings that in no way fit your requirements. The job hunt can be a total pain in the behind, but it may have just gotten a little easier…
Before I knew Mardi Gras was associated with copious alcohol consumption or showing breasts for beads, it was all about the cake. Tucked away in the loft of a Lutheran church, my grade-school French class would indulge in yeasty cinnamon cake every snowy February. I would cross my fingers under…
Just when you thought the wild world of the industrial food complex couldn’t get anymore sickening, disturbing, depressing, or infuriating, word leaked out of Kentucky that the Iron Maiden Pig Farm grinds up the intestines of dead piglets and feeds the cannibalistic slurry to the mother sows, among many other…
Joining the ranks of other delicious artisan bread bakers in town like Noble Bread and Pane Bianco, Mediterra Bakehouse Southwest adds to its loaves a certain visual flair that others just don’t have. While the flagship Mediterra operates out of Pittsburgh, a Coolidge branch, opened by the founders’ father, started…
So remember when the big beef recall quickly fizzled in the collective concern of meat lovers because the list primarily consisted of uncommon cuts like tripe, tongue, and lips? Well, turns out some of those odd beef parts are found in Hot Pockets. The Rancho Feeding Corporation, which was at…
There’s a new Facebook-based drinking game sweeping the U.K. and Australia and its extreme premise is being blamed for illness and even death. According to Time, the game Neknomination already has claimed the lives of four men under 30 years old in the U.K. with its severe challenges and viral…
For some reason, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has decided to put his official opinion on the books about pizza, and it isn’t sitting well with folks in the Windy City. The conservative judge apparently carries both his New York ties and strict views over to pizza and decided that…
Weed-infused sweets like brownies and lollipops have been around long enough in home kitchens and dispensaries, but the newest pot treat out of Santa Cruz will surely win over for savory snackers. According to marijuana.com, Reef Jerky, produced by Badfish Extracts, will hit shelves in California and other states where…
It was my birthday last week. I love my birthday, but it never really turns out how I imagine. For my 12th birthday, I asked for Donnie Wahlberg, to no avail. For my 18th birthday, my girlfriends tried to plan a surprise party for me, which I ruined mid-car ride…
No, that headline is not a euphemism. If you’re fed up with your wine going bad because you overestimated the amount of wine you needed (does that ever happen?) or sick and tired of wine stoppers forcing you to cram your bottle into the fridge in haphazard ways, Wine Condoms…
If we ever moved from the Southwest, fresh, handmade tortillas surely would leave a hole in our hearts. Luckily, we’re Phoenicians, so we’re spoiled by vendors like Lula’s Tortillas, who use years of tortilla-making expertise to bring delicious tortillas to local farmers markets. Though the tortillas currently are available only…
If you’re a whiskey lover finding it difficult to inspire that romantic feeling, there’s good news about getting out of Valentine’s Day doldrums. Since the first release of Copper City Bourbon, it seemed Rodney Hu and his team at Arizona Distilling Co. were excitedly chatting about the all-Arizona-made whiskey they…
The Interweb has been ablaze with talk of Dumb Starbucks, the L.A.-based parody coffee shop specializing in Dumb Frappuccinos, Dumb Norah Jones Duet CDs, and Dumb Venti Dumb Lattes. Two days after everyone caught word of the spoof cafe, Instagrammers posted shots of everything inside and outside the dumb coffee…
The results are in, and a Valley resident will be one of four Applebee’s fans featured in the restaurant chain’s new digital commercial. In December and January, folks were asked to submit Vine videos with the hashtag “BeeFamous.” From all the submitted videos of people making “their most unbelievable reactions,”…
You’ve still got time to lock in a Valentine’s Day reservation if you haven’t already. In order to quell the wrath of your significant other, try taking OpenTable or Nara’s suggestions on where to dine to inspire that loving feeling. OpenTable recently released its top 100 romantic restaurants, four of…
My perfect alone time is at the end of the day, in bed with a glass of wine and Instagram. There are so many amazing pastry chefs, bakeries, and home bakers out there creating gorgeous product and uploading pictures to be scrolled through and drooled over. It is one of…
As a company that uses “Eat Fresh” as its slogan, it was pretty shocking to learn that the bread is baked with azodicarbonamide, an additive commonly found in yoga mats and shoe rubber. However, according to the Huffington Post, the company has recently decided to remove that chemical from the…
Are you crazy? I am so that’s probably why I’m the owner of a small pastry business. More often than I can count, I am approached and told I have the greatest job in the world. I get to play with sugar and butter all day, how can that not…
The people in the Jelly Belly flavor development center must be bored — like, really bored. Flavors such as moldy cheese, rotten egg, and skunk spray, along with the popular Harry Potter-inspired line of “Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans,” push the envelope of what people really want in candy. There…
