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How Michael Symon Keeps Chronic Pain At Bay Jason Koerner/Getty Images By Cristine Struble/April 7, 2022 11:45 am EST While he might live to cook, James Beard Award-winning chef, best-selling author, and food television personality Michael Symon appreciates that food can be more than just an ingredient to curb hunger. Even though he has mastered cooking competitions and served a myriad of guests at his many restaurants, the dishes served at his home table tend to have a particular slant....

How Much Money Do McDonald’s Fry Cooks Typically Make? Bloomberg/Getty By Julia Mullaney/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 2:20 pm EST For decades, McDonald’s has been one of the most well-known fast-food restaurants in the world. In terms of profitability and number of locations, McDonald’s beats out every other restaurant chain in the world. According to Forbes, there are nearly 19,000 international McDonald’s locations — as in, not counting the United States spots....

Jamie Oliver’s Potato Salad Uses An Unexpected Ingredient KarepaStock/Shutterstock By Jennifer Mathews/Updated: May 24, 2022 11:24 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. British celebrity chef and advocate for healthy school lunches Jamie Oliver began working in his parents’ pub as a child, which influenced his career path early on in life (per Biography). Oliver soon became known to legions of fans after he started hosting a hit cooking show called “The Naked Chef” in 1999....

McDonald’s Pumpkin Creme Pie May Be Returning Soon Facebook By Crystal Antonace/Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 10:35 am EST While some of us are still in the thick of complaining about the summer heat, fall lovers are already dreaming about the pumpkin-y foods soon to grace their kitchens and stomachs in the very near future. While there are a ton of pumpkin recipes to make this autumn, some retailers know how to hook pumpkin fans by dangling those seasonal treats right when folks are ready to say goodbye to summer....

Padma Lakshmi’s Meme About Grandmas’ Cooking Is So Relatable Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty By Jennifer Mathews/Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 11:59 am EST Padma Lakshmi, the 51-year-old co-host of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” has had an impressive career as a New York Times best-selling cookbook author, tabloid fodder, actor, entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist (not to mention being a mother, too). Deemed “India’s first supermodel,” Lakshmi, well known for her long, deep scar on her arm, has been in the public eye since top designers like Armani and Versace began hiring her for their modeling campaigns....

Sandra Lee Has ‘All Sorts Of Emotions’ About Getting A Hysterectomy David Livingston/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/March 2, 2022 12:15 pm EST Chef and TV personality Sandra Lee found herself dealing with uncertainty after she was told about her breast cancer diagnosis in March 2015. According to Good Housekeeping, Lee was taken aback by the update but was determined to learn as much as she could about the disease and watched the show, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” for several days....

Subway Just Upgraded Its Italian Subs With 3 New Menu Options Subway By Aimee Lamoureux/March 10, 2022 9:24 pm EST Subway has undergone a major transformation in recent months. Last July, Subway announced massive menu changes in what would become “Eat Fresh Refresh,” the biggest menu update in the sandwich chain’s history. The refresh featured 20 revamped menu items, including the return of two sandwiches, the release of four brand-new subs, and the introduction of eleven different types of “improved ingredients” to the menu, according to Thrillist....

The Best Hell’s Kitchen Finale Pair, According To Reddit Frazer Harrison/Getty Images By Kate Hagan Gallup/Updated: April 25, 2022 3:36 pm EST “Hell’s Kitchen” is Chef Gordon Ramsay’s gauntlet of both team and individual cookery. In a show that brings the heat, culinary skills are displayed alongside emotional outbursts and outright rivalry. As The Coldwire explains, while these reactionary moments are not directly scripted, much careful planning goes into designing and explaining the challenges as well as choosing the right mix of skill and personality for each season....

The Controversial Condiment J. Kenji López-Alt Can’t Help But Love Instagram By Hope Ngo/Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 9:19 am EST In the United States, at least, the names Parmesan and Parmigiano-Reggiano may be used interchangeably. But in Italy, there is only One True Parmesan Cheese. The cheese is hard and can be grated on top of pasta, consumed in chunks, or dipped in balsamic vinegar before being popped in the mouth and enjoyed for its rich, buttery, creamy, nutty, and salty flavor, per Serious Eats....

The Hot New Popcorn Flavor You Can Only Get At Sam’s Club Louella938/Shutterstock By Lauren Farkas/Aug. 22, 2022 4:05 pm EST Popcorn is one of those snacks that’s always up for a makeover. In its essential form, it has a mild flavor profile and soft crunch, making it the perfect base for countless unique flavors. Versatile and perfect for pretty much any occasion, it’s no wonder that Americans munch on about 15 billion quarts of popcorn per year (via the United States Census Bureau)....

The Truth About Monique Feybesse From Top Chef Season 19 Instagram By Boshika Gupta/March 4, 2022 3:23 pm EST “Top Chef” is back with its latest season that’s taking place in Houston, Texas and features Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, and Gail Simmons. According to Bravo TV, 15 participants are competing in this edition and will be required to “use their expertise to take on iconic regional dishes” and tackle challenges such as preparing food for crowds of people at the city’s Asian Night Market....

The UK Restaurant That Transports Diners To Gotham City Photo Art Wall Decoration/Shutterstock By Brianna Corley/Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 9:23 am EST When it comes to dining out, modern-day foodies have become ravenous for uniquely themed restaurants. In Japan, Brasserie Kyushoku Toban offers its guests the chance to feel like a kid again by giving them the opportunity to experience what lunchtime is like at a Japanese elementary school (per Atlas Obscura)....

The Untold Truth Of Wolfgang Puck’s Frozen Pizzas Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock By Felicia Lee/Updated: April 12, 2022 4:36 pm EST When Austrian-born chef Wolfgang Puck rose to celebrity chef status in the 1990’s, it was in large part because of his radical re-imagining of what a pizza could be, according to the Chicago Tribune. Until he introduced his celebrity clientele at his first restaurant, Spago Hollywood, to pizzas topped with surprising ingredients such as duck sausage and smoked salmon, American diners had a pretty uniform and narrow vision of what pizza was supposed to look and taste like....

This Celebrity Is A Huge Fan Of Costco Bloomberg/Getty Images By Margaret McCormick/Feb. 19, 2022 1:58 am EST Just like many people who aren’t famous for a living, some celebrities have found things they love about Costco. Reality TV star and entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel has shown a devotion to Costco that appears to run deep. “I live for bulk stores in general, but Costco is … my religion,” Frankel has written (per Bravo TV)....

This Might Be The Exact Date IHOP’s Pumpkin Pancakes Return In 2022 Facebook By Stephanie Smith/Aug. 8, 2022 9:55 am EST “Brace yourselves. Pumpkin flavored everything is coming,” warns Imminent Ned in one of the many versions of the “Game of Thrones” meme. To some, pumpkin spice season is indeed a fate worse than winter. From Peeps to Spam, nothing is safe from being pumpkinized. In fact, PSL lovers spent $511 million on pumpkin products in 2019, proving the fall flavor is anything but basic....

This Study Might Finally Reveal Why COVID Makes You Lose Your Taste And Smell Photoroyalty/Shutterstock By Lauren Cahn/March 4, 2022 9:28 am EST Much about COVID-19 has been unexpected, from how capriciously it has affected different populations to the many and varied ways it’s been known to present. One of the most baffling symptoms associated with COVID-19 is the loss of the ability to smell, which began emerging in some patients early on in the pandemic and remains among the most commonly-reported symptoms to this day, according to the authors of a 2022 study published in the journal Cell....

Walmart Just Dropped A Stranger Things Chicken Nugget Collab Instagram By Taylor Huang/May 3, 2022 4:17 pm EST Dino-shaped nuggets may have been a childhood staple in the early 2000s, but perhaps that trend will shift to chicken nuggets created in partnership with popular TV shows. “Stranger Things” on Netflix has been the center of many brand collaborations in the past, including crossovers with clothing companies like Highsnobiety and a partnership with Doritos (via Snacks....

We Finally Know Why P.F. Chang’s Is So Cheap Hethers/Shutterstock By Alex Darus/April 20, 2022 1:04 pm EST One of the restaurants to really popularize an American take on Asian cuisine is P.F. Chang’s. First opening in the early ’90s, the chain has gone on to boast hundreds of locations around the world. The menu takes inspiration from many places, particularly China and Japan. P.F. Chang’s popularity is responsible for bringing menu items like Sriracha sauce and lettuce wraps into mainstream U....

What Are Crawfish And How Do You Eat Them? Shutterstock By Kirstie Bingham AND Mashed Staff/Updated: June 29, 2022 4:54 pm EST Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs. The names are interchangeable, and they all refer to those tasty little critters that look like miniature lobsters. While they are related to lobsters, per Britannica, their taste is more of a mashup of lobster and shrimp. Crawfish have less of a salty bite to them, too, which makes sense given that most species live in fresh water....

Why Is Everyone Saddling Up To Cowboy Caviar This Summer? Cesarz/Shutterstock By Rebecca Cherico/June 24, 2022 11:37 am EST Caviar — isn’t that the thing that’s actually really expensive fish eggs? So now it’s gotten popular on TikTok? Now it makes sense! Only that doesn’t quite explain it — what’s the cowboy got to do with caviar? Actually, Cowboy Caviar isn’t caviar at all. It’s just a nickname for a corn and bean salad-salsa that’s been popular in the South for many years....