This Is Why You Don’t Eat the ‘World’s Hottest Chip’ on Live TV Last year, demented gourmet-snack-maker Paqui invented the #OneChipChallenge, a “contest” that pits you against a $4.99 tortilla chip dubbed “the world’s hottest” because it’s made from Carolina…
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France Is on the Brink of a Major Croissant Crisis Pastry under fire. France is experiencing a butter shortage, causing a potential crisis of unprecedented magnitude: Croissant prices might go up. The shortage, as reported by Reuters, is the result…
New Report Says Bobby Flay Quit Iron Chef in the Most Bobby Flay Way Possible [He Claims It Was a Joke] The guy whose theatrical battle in 2000 against Masaharu Morimoto basically convinced Food Network to bring Iron Chef to…
Il Laboratorio del Gelato Expands for the First Time in 7 Years In the decade and a half since Jon Snyder launched Il Laboratorio del Gelato as a primarily wholesale business, New York’s ice-cream universe has seen the rise of…
José Andrés Announces He Will Scale Back His Puerto Rico Relief Efforts With FEMA and other aid groups working to feed Puerto Ricans, chef José Andrés tells the New York Times today that it’s time to start scaling back his…
Kellogg’s Apologizes for Making Racist Corn Pops Corn Pops cereal boxes are getting a hasty makeover after a customer noticed that the current packaging makes incredibly racist assumptions about the occupations of darker-skinned people. Right now, the back panel of…
The Absolute Best Bagel in New York We’re going on 50-plus years of lamentations that the glory days of bagels are behind us, but tell that to the bakers who still hand-roll, custom-proof, kettle-boil, and board-bake every day. Here, the…
Anthony Bourdain Blames Himself for the Restaurant Industry’s ‘Meathead’ Culture In the wake of the explosive report detailing years of sexual harassment and abuse at John Besh’s restaurants, people have been eagerly awaiting outrage from the industry’s leading men, and…
Somebody Invented Diet Avocados At least now you’ll be skinnier when you cry about all the home-buying money you squandered on avocado toast: A fruit company over in Spain has invented an actual diet avocado — all the Instagrammability, only…
David Lynch Finally Releases Twin Peaks Beers David Lynch: iconic director, onetime milkshake connoisseur, and, now, craft-brew collaborator. Beer-geek darling Mikkeller announced that it joined forces with Lynch to brew not one but three different Twin Peaks–inspired beers: Log Lady…
Lawsuit Claims Danny Meyer’s No-Tipping Movement Is a Plot to Overcharge Customers Several of New York and San Francisco’s top restaurateurs have been hit with a class-action lawsuit that argues that their no-tipping policies are actually part of a “conspiracy”…
The Absolute Best Jerk Chicken in New York There’s a reason jerk chicken, which is thought to have originated in Jamaica, is a staple in the cuisines of many other Caribbean islands: When done well, it’s spectacular, a marvel of…
Hwa Yuan, New York’s Original Home of Sesame Noodles, Makes a Splashy Return Restaurants don’t often come back from the dead. Those that do tend to be ones that loom large in the minds of New Yorkers — like Hwa Yuan.…