10 Cosmetic Uses for Everyday Foods

Sometimes, getting egg on your face can be a good thing.

Advice for Despised Laptop Users

How to avoid dirty looks in coffeehouses.

Dumped Over Dinner

Is it OK to break up in restaurants?

How Are No-Boil Lasagna Noodles Made?

Pasta you don’t have to boil is counterintuitive, but it works.

What Are Buffalo Wings?

Are they the clipped appendages of miniature flying bison?

Keep Your Eyes Off My Dish

Is it OK to ogle other people’s orders?

Wait, Lemme Google It!

The dreaded iPhone faux pas.

Bogus Butter Bake-Off

This week’s mission: sticks of fake butter, and protein pimped by a famous doctor.

Wow, You Eat a Lot

Is it rude to comment on how much a woman can put away?

Whole Grains with Flavor

Or a grain of barley, or couscous, or anything whole and wholesome.

It Must Be Like

How do you ask somebody to dinner on Valentine’s Day without implying everlasting commitment?

Rice Krispies on Steroids

This week’s mission: Classic breakfast cereal gets bigger, multigrainier, and fruitier.

Filet of Petri Dish

The same technologies scientists use to grow human tissue in a lab may one day be used to grow animal tissue to feed the world.

Try Mezcal Again

It used to be that mezcal was thought of as a poor man’s tequila. No more. Great mezcal is now being imported into the United States.

Ditching an Annoying Guest

She came last year, must she again?