On Friday, Mark noted in his Buzz post that “Guy Fieri says the big mean New Yorkers are just picking on him.” In case you missed it, I want to mention what has so ruffled the culinary self-promoter’s feathers. On the 13th, New York Times restaurant reviewer Pete Wells wrote about Fieri’s new Times Square [...]

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While Domino’s has been rebuilding basically everything on their menu over the past few years, Pizza Hut was still dominating them in one category: pan pizza. That was mainly due to the fact that Domino’s did not have pan pizza. Well, now they do. The new pizza comes in one size, medium (12″), and with [...]

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I just can’t get away from bugs. Silkworm pupae, crickets and now grasshoppers. A co-worker of mine recommended a place called Mezcal in San Jose, California and we both had the chance to make the short trip down there from nearby Belmont. The food was supposed to be excellent but the grasshoppers were the major lure for this [...]

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A shiny desert oasis full of strippers and slot machines, Las Vegas is a city known for excess. In Vegas, bigger is better. Yard-long drinks. Sky-scraping hotels. Back-breaking fake breasts. Wallet-destroying prices. You get the picture. Also known for excess: Hash House A Go Go. When I told Eick I was going to Vegas, he [...]

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God Bless America.

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Not everything in the world of Fast Food is all baked apple pies & Happy Meals, kids. Some spokes-creatures are far more disturbing than pink slime and McRibs combined. While marketing executives labor long hours coming up with new Mascots to entice hungry dollar holders through door & arches, often the results are abominations that [...]

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I never leave DC. I mean, I do, but it usually involves me leaving the city limits to go to the airport and hop a plane to someplace entirely different. Lacking a car, and any desire to travel more than 45 minutes from my home base, I often find myself neglecting the surrounding areas of [...]

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If I told anyone 20 years ago that  in 2012 I could take them out to a fine dining restaurant and be served an edible helium balloon that tasted of green apple, they’d probably have scoffed & asked me to say Hello to George & Jane Jetson. Yet here we are. Molecular Gastronomy itself has [...]

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I came across an article about the New Wendy’s Fois Gras burger and it got me thinking. If you have not seen the wide variety of regional or global specialties at McDonalds, it’s worth a look. (The Kiwi Burger sounds strangely good) Link to full size image Internationally, particularly in China, KFC is the dominant brand with items like a Dragon Twister and [...]

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There are many ways that people celebrate the holidays. Whether you celebrate, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule or Festivus, chances are you have a family meal tradition that goes along with it. In my house we do the Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve. Traditionally this is a very long meal of many courses that ends just before midnight, so [...]

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