I was excited to find out that a frankfurter from a Pork Store in my town of Union, N.J. was awarded 2008 Reserve Grand Champion by the American Association of Meat Processors (AAMP) at the annual American Cured Meat Championship...

this place?) and TerraMomo put out quite the spread. At $85 a ticket, that’s a pretty reasonable benefit considering the $200+ pricetag of the American Heart Association later this spring... DAMN, I should have gone!

, there was a slight air of desperation about the whole thing. I am not sure even the most jaded of young children would have been won over by the “Beef is Fun” badges and I am pretty certain that being a member of...

Nations Health Decline Because of Dirty Dishes? Did you ever notice that they never show people washing dishes on cooking shows? On shows like  Chopped, or Top Chef, after contestants destroy a kitchen during a challenge,...

(another arrak) Ex-Soviet countries – vodka Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam – different national versions of of the cheap, cane-based rum colored hangover inducing "Mekong"

From what I read and hear about slow food nation (listened to several interviews on KQED)... The pompous and privileged “educating” the simple masses about what food is really about...AS IF Major disconnect— just...

" Associate Professor of History Texas State University Austin, Texas Michael Pollan Author, “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto” (Penguin Press HC, 2008) Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine Knight...

Cheeseburger, fries, and a bedtime story please.

A California family may be the only people not asking that question.

McDonald’s drops the Double Cheeseburger from its dollar menu, and beef prices keep on rising.

Fourteen tons of spilled Oreo cookies might be something to cry over.

Culinary tourism is the new eco-tourism, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette informs us. A new study indicates that the U.S. gastro-travel industry is about to get huge—and that could have bad implications for chowhounds.

“Try Legal Weed”—Innocent city boosterism on a bottle cap or insidious plot to promote drug use?

The Corn Refiners Association attempts to reverse high-fructose corn syrup’s bad rep.

Here’s an early contender for the biggest story of 2008: “‘Hearty eater’ says buffet banned him, relative.”