Food brand product placement has been around for a long time. In the early 1900′s, during the infancy of cinema, even before “talkies” had been realized, savvy companies have been paying film makers for brief brand cameos on the big screen, in an attempt to make new customers out of a captive audience. These days, [...]

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Americans are generally known to be a pretty chunky bunch. We’ve all seen story after story on the ever-growing obesity epidemic in this country. What we don’t see nearly as much of is the other side of the coin – people who are hungry and do not have access to nutritious food. I recently watched [...]

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It’s Monday, meaning it’s time for another edition of Eating Styles. As the entertainment industry gears up for fall movie season, we want to know: what’s your favorite movie theater candy? Almost everyone has a movie theater candy they gravitate toward, assuming you’re willing to pay the ridiculous prices movies theaters offer. As you sit [...]

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Like many of you I am a big fan of Game Of Thrones. I started reading the books shortly after they came out and when the TV show was announced I was thrilled. The books and the show have spawned many different types of official and fan supported supported websites, games, and my topic at hand, cookbooks. Started back in March [...]

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If there is one thing I can appreciate, it is dedication to the craft of food preparation. Certainly the taste of food is the most important thing, but when combined with the extra layer of attentive detail, the experience can really be inspiring. One of the reasons I love sushi is because it often combines [...]

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As you sit down to a table full of wings, chips, burgers and dips this SuperBowl Sunday, imagine being able to devour truck loads of these delicious items as a profession. Glamor, prestige & unlimited wet naps could be yours right? Meet Crazy Legs Conti;  a man with one lofty goal in life. His dream? [...]

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Morgan Spurlock has a new movie. But rather than lift the veil on the dangers of eating McDonald’s for 30 days straight, this one takes aim (and pokes fun) and the abundance of product placement in movies and TV shows. As such, rather than just being named “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” Spurlock nabbed a [...]

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A new documentary, entitled “Food Inc.” is scheduled to be released in NYC, L.A. and San Francisco on June 12th, and will hopefully be shown soon around the rest of the country. The film’s website describes the documentary as a film that: Lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly [...]

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Dear AMC Movie Theaters, I just got back from a midnight showing of Batman:The Dark Knight. (Which, I might add for my readers, was dope, dope, dope. Go see it. And I’m not just saying that because I have a giant asexual crush on Christopher Nolan and every movie he makes). Prior to the movie [...]

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Trouble With Toast is organizing a DC food blogger pot-luck. Heat, Eat, Review posts a video review of Kids Cuisine Deep Sea Adventure Fish Sticks. Manny & Olga’s will offer heart shaped pizza’s on Valentine’s Day. An episode of Dinner Impossible was filmed at the DC Improv on Thursday. Kotaku reviews 13 different energy drinks. [...]

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