Instead of filming this selfish, food-hoarding behavior, — which is admittedly adorable — this dog's overlords should probably be creating a more peaceable animal kingdom by teaching the dog how to share with other species, even when they have a terrifying red face like this duck. The dog is white so I'm going to go …
A Chicago school has banned bag lunches because theoretically, school lunch is healthier than what parents pack for their children. Naturally, parents are up in arms over the accusation that the school is better at feeding their children than they are.
There's a possibility that brightly-colored staples of the American child's diet, including Jell-O, Froot Loops, and Pop-Tarts will now come with a warning. The New York Times reports that the F.D.A. has asked a panel to review evidence on the link between artificial colorings and health problems in children.
In the wake of years of low-fat and non-fat diet news and advertising, we're living in a culture that has oversimplified the complex equations of nutrition into fat=bad. As Harriet Brown writes for Psychology today:
The USDA released new dietary guidelines today, and for the first time it suggests Americans should eat less. Yes, the government is finally standing up to the food lobby and declaring we should consume less of its delicious, fatty wares!
The recession has given rise to a weird trend: otherwise-respectable adults skipping out on the check at nice restaurants.
For the past 60 days, Washington State Potato Commission head Chris Voight ate only potatoes to protest the government banning or limiting the vegetable in some programs. Voight lost 21 pounds and lowered his cholesterol, but the restrictions remain.
[London, November 2: Taking the cafeteria nightmare 400x higher, this one is aiming to recreate the Spanish "Tomatina" food throwing contest. Image via Getty.]
On Sunday Sonya Thomas ate 181 chicken wings in 12 minutes, winning the National Buffalo Wing Festival's eating contest and beating top professional eater Joey Chestnut. "Joey's so strong," says the festival's founder, "But Sonya's so fast with the hand."
"Foodie" — which is sometimes used to describe anyone with a passing interest in eating quality nutrients — has become a bad word.
[Bunol, Spain, August 25. Revellers cuddle in tomato pulp during La Tomatina festival. More than 45,000 people participated in this year's festival, throwing over 100 tons of rotten and over-ripe tomatoes. Image via Getty.]
In a post titled "The depravity of Major League Eating," William Saletan makes the argument that competitive eating - cramming 68 hot dogs down one's throat in a matter of minutes - is somehow like porn. But it's not.
Michael Pollan is a bona fide food celebrity, and rightly so: much of America's changing attitudes towards food is due to his peruasive and intelligent writing. But what's his deal with those pesky "feminists?"
We have few authority figures we can look up to anymore. Politicians are up to their eyes in love-children and corruption. Priests reel from accusations of child-tampering. What's left? Cook's Illustrated, a bastion of goodness in a naughty world.
Missy Chase Lapine, who claimed Jessica Seinfeld's best-selling Deceptively Delicious was a rip-off of Lapine's Sneaky Chef cookbook, has lost round 2: the Second Circuit Court of Appeal threw out Lapine's lawsuit yesterday. [NYDN]
"Yesterday new battlelines were drawn as domestic goddess Nigella Lawson launched her iPhone app, putting her in direct competition with Jamie Oliver. Gordon Ramsay has also thrown his toque in the ring." [Guardian]
NY Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd and others in the media are all abuzz over the Obamas' mysterious and possibly subversive decision to eat both burgers and healthy foods.
The video at left is an excerpt from an '80s sexual harassment training video titled "food fight." We hoped it would explain whether throwing a pie in a coworker's face is considered harassment or not, but the boss complementing his employee's cucumber handling is an amusingly cheesy alternative. [Vintage Ads]
Today on the HuffPo, Victoria Namkung tells everybody to leave poor Alice Waters alone!
Update: after an elderly woman scared off robbers
Holiday weight gain may be mostly a myth, but holiday stories about weight gain are oh-so-real. Today, even a little excess weight will kill you, but you have your city planner to blame.
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The Sneaky Chef author Missy Chase Lapine, hot on the heels of having just sued Jessica Seinfeld over the striking similarities between her own book and Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious, has just inked a deal to do yet another installation in her series. Lapine's latest book is to feature even more ways to hide fruits…
So remember Jerry Seinfeld's wife Jessica? It seems like forever ago that she published that book about how you can get kids to eat pretty much anything if you figure out how to disguise them in the midst of more appealing foods, like with pot and brownies. And indeed, it's been on the best-seller list for an…
Jessica Seinfeld was on the The View today, and in between bites of "deceptively delicious" food, Barbara Walters asked Seinfeld to elaborate a little on the scandal surrounding her cookbook Deceptively Delicious. Jessica Seinfeld: "I can understand why [Missy Chase Lapine, author of The Sneaky Chef] would've been upset.…
Do not fuck with Martha Stewart. Post-prison Martha will cut you. Or at least make your soufflé fall on purpose. If we were Rachael Ray, we'd start hiding out now. Ray, the annoyingly chirpy maker of 30-minute meals and head of her own Martha-esque media empire (Magazine? Check. Talk show? Check. Cook books? Check),…
Is it time to feel bad for Jessica Seinfeld? We don't know why she was the subject of a story in yesterday's New York Times, and whether or not she cheated on her first husband with Jerry and whether or not she lied about this when it first happened eight years ago. Hiding spinach in brownies is stupid and giving Oprah …
Writer Mimi Sheraton (the first female chief food critic at The New York Times) has taken on Jessica Seinfeld's bestselling book Deceptively Delicious. Says Sheraton of the controversy on the similarities between Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious and Missy Chase Lapine's The Sneaky Chef: "I say: a plague on both their…
