Best Travel Stories, local food stories, food recipes, travel and food news and more!
Chef and owner of Los Angeles restaurant Slab BBQ, Burt Bakman, is trying to catch the city’s reputation for barbecue up to the likes of southern states like Texas. “The LA barbecue scene is really at its infancy,” he says. “The type of barbecue culture that they have in Texas, they don’t have here. There’s […]
The paths to becoming food famous used to be fairly limited: First, you needed to cook really well, or at least know what good cooking was and have a particularly fine way with words. You could get there by creating an amazing cookbookor writing a new Yorker essay that would inspire a memoir, which in […]
I hate making a peanut butter sandwich. While I thoroughly enjoy the end product, there’s something extremely annoying about creating what many view to be the world’s easiest lunch. My biggest issue is the knife, which must be washed or wiped down after plying the peanut butter to avoid getting any errant PB into the […]
Windmill Organics, the UK food firm behind the Biona product range, has taken full control of Netherlands-based peer Machandel. The Dutch firm’s founders’ Glasbeek Haulerwijk vehicle has sold its 40% stake in the business to Windmill, which has owned a 60% majority stake in the business since 2012, for an undisclosed sum. The Glasbeeks – […]
The television adtation of pachinko, based on the international bestseller by Min Jin Lee, follows one family over the course of eight decades, from the rural community of Yeongdo in 1930s Busan to the fast-paced world of 1989 Tokyo. The story focuses on Sunja, played by three separate actresses over the course of the show, […]
Global food commodity prices reached unprecedented highs in March led by a surge in the cost of vegetable oils and cereals as the Ukraine-Russia crisis disrupts supply. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, which compiles the FAO Food Price Index tracking a basket of commonly-traded food commodities, said today (8 ril) the ongoing conflict had […]
Nothing says the holidays like extravagant meals. Americans bought $64.9 billion worth of poultry during 2019, most of it during the holiday season. But turkey is just one of many cooking party dishes. When you’re preparing an event, you need to think of a variety of party dish ideas to appeal to all of your guests. What are […]
As the name implies, the nightc has always served as the epilogue to an evening. More often than not, that closing act is a heavy hitter—a decadent dessert-like pour or a cocktail of the strong-and-stirred variety. Today’s interpretations of the final drink of the night, however, are breaking the mold, placing a premium on comfort […]
The managing director of the UK arm of Danish dairy major Arla Foods has warned of potential supply issues because farmers are producing less milk as a result of higher costs. Ash Amirahmadi said farmers need confidence to carry on producing and that means securing a higher price from Arla’s customers – the supermarkets. „For […]
It has been, you might say, a week. After lots of meetings and a constant swirl of anxiety only explicable by the current state of chaos in the world, I somehow ended up taking an hours-long stress n yesterday afternoon that stretched much later into the evening than I expected. When I woke up at […]
Supermarket shopping in Moscow, March 2022 (Credit: Oleg Elkov / Shutterstock.com) Russia’s government has introduced temporary restrictions on the export of grain and sugar in an attempt to shore up supplies in its domestic market. Moscow yesterday (14 March) announced it would ban shipments of wheat, rye, barley and maize to neighboring Eurasian Economic Union […]
“I’m defined by two places: New York and Kentucky,” says chef Edward Lee, who ran a successful restaurant in his hometown of New York City, but found fame by opening 610 Magnolia in Louisville, Kentucky, which honors and celebrates the traditions of Southern cuisine. In this documentary for YesChef, Lee visits two Kentucky institutions that […]
0