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Every weekday morning, I used to stop at a hole-in-the-wall bodega, before a long commute from Brooklyn into Manhattan, to buy a coffee before I got on the subway. There was nothing uniquely special about the place, besides that the man behind the counter knew my order (small, milk, no sugar), and it cost just 75…
Some takeout restaurants choose to decorate their menus with large, unappetizing photographs of their food. Not a good idea. I’m no restaurant industry insider but I bet it’s probably better for your restaurant if you don’t show bad pictures of food. Try it with no pictures of food at all and see how it goes….
A lot of good and decent people like seltzer water. My friends like seltzer water, people I love dearly enjoy gulping down the fizzy drink that is sometimes flavored. I am here to deliver a devastating truth. Seltzer water is very bad. In fact, I would go as far as to say that seltzer water…
But his highbrow, lowbrow image — of the jet-setting mogul who takes buckets of fried chicken onto his private plane with the gold-plated seatbelt buckles — is also a carefully crafted one. If President George Bush revealed his patrician upbringing by requesting “a splash” more coffee at a truck stop in New Hampshire, and John…
President Obama is so disciplined that his wife has teased that he eats precisely seven lightly salted almonds each night. George W. Bush was an exercise buff, obsessed with staying trim by mountain biking and clearing brush at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. But Donald J. Trump is taking a different approach: A junk food…
Take this quiz to find out In the land of “two Americas,” it turns out Republicans and Democratsdon’t even like the same foods. Using exclusive data provided by Grubhub, an online food delivery service that partners with restaurants all over the country, we examined the aggregate ordering patterns of customers across nearly 200 congressional districts. Out of 175 popular…
Once again, Japan is raising the bar with hamburgers. This time, it’s turned its skills to Ghostbusters. Entabe reports that J.S. Burgers Cafe is rolling out Ghostbusters themed food at its restaurants. There’s the G.B. Burger (above), which comes with burgers slathered in black olive and anchovy paste, “bloody hot ketchup,” and cream on black…
Soylent is a startup that makes a nutritional powder and drink that are supposed to be able to replace meals. As part of Silicon Valley’s desire to disrupt everything about modern life—whether it needs to be disrupted or not—Soylent has become a popular company for venture capitalists to back and Valley types to be seen…
Photo In a photo in Jack Daniel’s old office, Daniel, with mustache and white hat, is shown at his distillery in Tennessee in the late 1800s. The man to his right could be a son of Nearis Green, a slave who helped teach Daniel how to make whiskey. LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Every year, about 275,000…
How does drinking affect your dating life? Slo Down Wines pulls back the covers to find out. Does your date become more attractive after a little (or a lot) of booze? Does a glass of wine make you want to take your pants off and dim the lights? Does getting buzzed prevent you from getting…