Confessions of a private chef: foie gras for pets, ecstasy for pud

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Confessions of a private chef: foie gras for pets, ecstasy for pud More from The Times and The Sunday Times Jack Burke, who cooked for the one per cent, reveals a world where nothing is off the menu — including…

Nobody Wants to Be a Foodie

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“When did you become such an adventurous eater?” my mom often asks me, after I’ve squealed about some meal involving jamón ibérico or numbing spices. The answer is, I don’t know, but I can think of moments throughout my life…

The messy reality of feeding Alaska – High Country News

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After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state’s food supply chain.

The Semi-Fictional Book That Transformed the Culinary World

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“The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth” inspired culinary luminaries like Alice Waters and Samin Nosrat. Does it matter that it’s largely made up?It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I…

Cooking with Mayonnaise Is the Most Convincing Appeal to Mayo Haters

Eater

If there’s a condiment that truly divides diners, it’s not ketchup or sweet relish — it’s mayonnaise. From the Worldwide I Hate Mayonnaise Club (founded in 1988 by a repulsed Honolulu-based writer) to the Wesleyan Anti-Mayonnaise League (because of course) and HoldThatMayo.

How Will We Eat in 2025? 9 Predictions to Chew On.

If you want to understand what’s going to be big in food next year, ignore the fridgescaping and hot-honey espresso martinis. Instead, peer into the nation’s psyche. When Americans were scared and isolated during the Covid shutdown, they ate comfort food with abandon.

In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything

Eater

In March 2020, when pandemic stay-at-home orders had just started and everyone was figuring out how to get groceries and purchase in bulk for the next several weeks, I already had a chest freezer full of food and a pantry stocked with months’ worth of meals at my home in Fairbanks, Alaska.

I Spent Three Years Inhaling Tacos and Corn Dogs in Eating Contests. Here’s Why I Stopped.

Texas Monthly

The first time I entered an eating contest, I made a little girl cry.

I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?

WIRED

It’s 10 pm on a Wednesday night and I’m standing in Blessed, a south London takeaway joint, half-listening to a fellow customer talking earnestly about Jesus. I’m nodding along, trying to pay attention as reggae reverberates around the small yellow shop front.

Review: The Buffet of Buffets

Semi-Rad.com

We were just wrapping up our fourth buffet of the day when the guy came over and asked Pitt if he was OK.

Why Colorado and New Mexico are Fighting a Hot War Over Green Chile

Outside Online

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Orange Is the New Yolk

Eater

An egg yolk is precious; a hundred are terrifying. In an Instagram reel from last year, a pair of disembodied hands tips a large metal bowl full of neon-orange yolks into a well of flour, an act whose ostensible purpose is to make fresh pasta but whose effect is to freak me out.

An Even Better Way to Eat Eggs

Now that I’ve settled into the warm weather and its rituals, market runs and farm visits, ripening fruits crowd my kitchen counters, fresh greens burst from my crisper bin and tomatoes, chiles and lemongrass await, gifts from my little garden patch.

What a Hot Dog Eating Champ Eats in a Day

Outside Online

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On July 4, competitive eating champion Miki Sudo will face the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for the ninth time.

My Benihana Myself

Eater

The seventh point on the waiver I had to sign was “Please do not throw or toss food into anyone’s mouth, plate, etc.” I felt cheated: This was the implicit promise of Benihana — Japanese Steakhouse and Place Where I Would Learn How to Flip a Shrimp Into My Friend’s Mouth.

Taco Bell’s Innovation Kitchen, the Front Line in the Stunt-Food Wars

The New Yorker

Lois Carson always wanted to find a new way to fold a tortilla. “Life’s like an experiment to me,” she said.

Medieval Pantry Stocked With Spices Found in 500-Year-Old Shipwreck

Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists found saffron, as well as peppercorns, almonds, raspberries and other foods. Marco Verch Professional Photographer via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 In the summer of 1495, King Hans of Denmark and Norway anchored his warship off the southern coast of Sweden.

An Ode to Kraft Dinner, Food of Troubled Times

While the world has continued to change, Kraft’s product has remained the same, somehow evading inflation at one or two dollars per box.

Why Are Border Smugglers Trafficking Bologna?

Texas Monthly

The bologna arrives in darkness. Hundreds of pounds cross into the U.S. from Mexico at once. Rolls are stuffed into the backs of SUVs, sewn into car seats, shoved into spare tires, or hidden in suitcases beneath heaps of shirts and socks. Once, in El Paso, a U.S.

The Legend of the Choco Taco

Eater

Empellon chef Alex Stupak owns four New York City restaurants devoted to tacos. He’s the author of a taco cookbook. But growing up in Leominster, Massachusetts, there was no Mexican food in Stupak’s life ("Old El Paso taco night" aside).