food

The Future of Organic Food Is Walmart

Hamilton Nolan · 04/10/14 12:45PM

It's tough being Whole Foods. Competing fancy grocery chains threaten from one side. Big box stores selling organic food threaten from the other side. "All natural" food will thrive in the most unnatural environments.

KFC Secretly Rolls Out Chik-fil-A Knockoff Restaurant

Hamilton Nolan · 04/07/14 08:17AM

This week, Arlington, Texas will get the thing it most desperately needs: a new greasy fast food chicken restaurant. But this greasy fast food chicken restaurant marks the launch of a greasy fast food chicken restaurant war.

What Healthy Food Is the Tastiest?

Hamilton Nolan · 04/04/14 01:35PM

Some food—cake, pie, pizza, nachos—tastes great. Some food—wheatgrass, chia seeds, kale—is healthy. But what one food tastes the best while still being healthy?

The Best Restaurant in New York Is LOX at The Jewish Museum

Caity Weaver · 03/27/14 12:40PM

There are a bunch of restaurants in the world, including some in New York City. But in a city of over 24,000 restaurants, how do you find the best? You begin your search in places that are already popular: New York's hottest tourist destinations. In The Best Restaurant in New York Is, writers Caity Weaver and Rich Juzwiak attempt to determine the best restaurant in New York.

Rising Food Prices Could Be Great For Our Health

Hamilton Nolan · 03/18/14 08:58AM

Consider us, the average American consumers: couch-bound, sluggish, overweight, grazing on a steady diet of heavy meats, hormone-laced milk, and refined sugars. An economically required fast is the best thing that could happen to us.

I Guess You're All Too Good For Bad Frozen Food Now?

Hamilton Nolan · 03/14/14 09:03AM

There is NOTHING more American than a Lean Cuisine-brand frozen dinner, which combines our national passions for junk food, fad diets, and sadness all in one easily microwaveable package. And now you ingrates are abandoning this proud legacy in droves.

High Protein Diets Make You Look Good, Kill You

Hamilton Nolan · 03/11/14 10:35AM

Americans do not remember anything from chemistry or biology class, but they will damn sure buy anything that contains "protein," because I think it gives you muscles? Sadly, it appears that high protein diets may also cause you to die.

New York’s Best Restaurant Bombed Its Health Inspection

J.K. Trotter · 03/04/14 01:10PM

Per Se, which calls itself “the urban interpretation of The French Laundry,” is considered one of the best dining establishments in New York City. The city’s health inspectors seem to disagree. Eater points out that the Columbus Circle restaurant racked up 42 “violation points” during a February 19 inspection—enough to earn a failing “C” grade if Per Se’s owner, American chef Thomas Keller, fails to contest the Department of Health’s findings. (In the meantime, the restaurant is required to display a prominent “Grade Pending” flier.)

Fast Food Breakfast Envelops America In Ceaseless Embrace

Hamilton Nolan · 02/25/14 09:56AM

There is nothing that you, the consumer, love more than a paper bag filled with piping hot breakfast items purchased from one of our nation's fast food outlets. It is the only high point in the otherwise dreary days of the majority of Americans. Fortunately, fast food breakfast will now be more inescapable than ever.

Let's Read a Review of a Restaurant Where Dinner for Two Costs $861

Adam Weinstein · 02/18/14 04:25PM

Would you pay $21 for a green tea? Well, if you were cultured, you would, you goddam heathen. But since we can't take you out anyplace nice, let's instead swig our swirled leaves with Ryan Sutton, the food critic for Bloomberg News and enjoyer of one fat night in Chicago.

Finally, the Military Perfects a Futuristic Pizza That Doesn't Go Bad

Adam Weinstein · 02/17/14 02:45PM

The Department of Defense, with its huge purse and huger paranoia, has long been a driver of technological advances. But none may be so momentous as this one: an unfrozen piece of pizza that stays edible for years. And years. Army Rangers and armchair generals, rejoice!

White Tiger Mauls Man Who Offered Himself as Food in "Support"

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/17/14 02:12PM

A Chinese man narrowly escaped a bloody death over the weekend after he leaped into a zoo's white tiger enclosure and attempted to get himself eaten. He was apprehended by zookeepers and escaped with only minor injuries.