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You might have heard that Americans overwhelmingly favor mandatory labeling for foods containing genetically modified ingredients. That’s true, according to a new study: 84 percent of respondents said they support the labels. Brandon McFadden and Jayson Lusk But a nearly identical percentage—80 percent—in the same survey said they’d also like to see labels on food…
Sarma Melngailis had it all: an Ivy League degree, model looks and a hot vegan restaurant, Pure Food and Wine in Gramercy, beloved by Alec Baldwin and Bill Clinton. Now, she’s got a mug shot, a $350,000 bail and husband Anthony Strangis: an alleged gambling addict with a criminal past and an 11-year-old child he…
Chances are the last time you ate at a Sbarro restaurant, you were at the mall. For many in Generations X and Y, the weekends meant window shopping at mall chain stores — KB Toys, Waldenbooks, Sam Goody, Aeropostale — and then hitting the Sbarro at the food court. What was significant about a restaurant…
The company is anti-LGBT, Councilman Danny Dromm said. View Full Caption Flickr/scuddr ELMHURST — National chain Chick-fil-A plans to open its first location in the borough at the Queens Center Mall — but not everyone’s excited to eat more chicken. The company’s first Queens restaurant is set to open this fall, an effort to serve…
Jude Milhon, a cyberfeminist who died in 2003, was one of the first women to witness online harassment. Writing in Wired magazine, she urged women to “toughen up”. “Whether we’re set upon by zealots or bigots or abusively correct politicos, we have to learn to defend ourselves,” she said. The year was 1995, and Jude…
(Amy King/The Washington Post; images from iStockphoto) There is a lie we like to tell ourselves, a bending of the truth that permeates most of the food world in the West. We like burgers and fries, and other quintessentially American dishes, but we also love foreign cuisines, the vast and varied bucket of foods we rush to…
Today is National Pretzel Day, or as some of us like to call it, “free pretzel day” — since a number of major chains are giving away free pretzels to celebrate. The biggest pretzel chain in the country is Auntie Anne’s, which is offering a free pretzel — with a catch. You have to have the Auntie Anne’s…
Farm to Fable STEVE MADDEN | Times At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction First in a series | April 13, 2016 By LAURA REILEY Times Food Critic The restaurant’s chalkboard makes claims as you enter from the valet parking lot. At the hostess stand, a cheery board reads, “Welcome to local, farm-fresh…
Begin: WordPress Article Content After laying off staff in December as it shifted business models to find a sustainable operation, Dinner Lab has officially shut down, according to a blog post on the company’s site. Dinner Lab, like many startups, is facing a challenging environment for startups that lately have to find their way to…
Three-and-a half years ago a few of us came up with a novel idea; bring together random people, in an unconventional location, and give an up-and-coming chef a chance. The idea was meant to be pretty simple – give a newcomer, an underdog, someone that no one else believed in yet, a platform to showcase…