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This Is The One Ingredient Geoffrey Zakarian Can’t Live Without - Exclusive Chance Yeh/Getty Images By Molly Harris/March 29, 2022 2:39 pm EST Every pantry has its staple, but for celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian, there’s only one ingredient that he would consistently turn to for a wide variety of dishes. The Food Network star recently partnered with Harry & David and now has his own seasonal collections of gourmet foods and luxurious wines as he told Mashed in an exclusive interview....

This Might Have Been The Origin Of Kit Kat’s Name aperturesound/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/March 25, 2022 7:10 pm EST When you’re eating candy, you probably don’t care what it’s called so long as it tastes good — but don’t a lot of candies have some pretty weird names? You have the obvious ones like Hershey’s, which is named after founder Milton S. Hershey, but then you get to the pretty strange ones: Zagnuts, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Goobers, Nerds, the list can go on....

TikTok Had Doubts About This Al Fresco ‘Breakfast In Bed’ Situation MaraZe/Shutterstock By James Lewis/Updated: Jan. 28, 2023 1:16 pm EST Breakfast in bed is one of those sneaky joys in life akin to getting a free drink at a bar or a box of chicken nuggets with an extra one tucked inside. Whether it’s something simple like a couple of fresh pastries or as comprehensive as a plate piled with fat and grease, breakfast in bed mysteriously makes food taste better....

Wendy’s Hot Honey Chicken Biscuit - What To Know Before Ordering Wendy’s By Felix Behr/Feb. 26, 2022 4:26 pm EST We thought we had finally seen the end of the Chicken Sandwich Wars. Well, we hoped anyway. But alas, Wendy’s has decided that February 2022 is the perfect time to prove that they are the company that should try to introduce improvements to the simple-seeming chicken sandwich, even though the initial flurry of fast casual restaurant sandwich debuts occurred in 2021....

What Is Vitello Tonnato And What Does It Taste Like? Natasha Breen/Shutterstock By Michael La Corte/March 29, 2022 7:35 pm EST To the uninitiated, a mix of veal, mayonnaise, capers, and tuna may not sound especially appealing. In actuality, vitello tonnato is much more than the sum of its parts. With Italian origins reaching back for centuries, vitello tonnato is a classic cold dish, but one that is still relatively under-appreciated outside of Italy....

What More People Should Know About Running A Restaurant, According To The EatOkra Founders - Exclusive Rhea Kay By Alexandra Cass/March 23, 2022 12:25 pm EST The founders of EatOkra started out with a small, simple goal — to find the best Black-owned restaurants in their home of Brooklyn. Six years later, that quest has snowballed into a nationwide network connecting foodies all over the country with the best Black-owned food businesses in their area....

Why The Panera Drive-Thru Might Soon Look A Lot Different Facebook By Hope Ngo/Aug. 30, 2022 8:29 am EST Panera fans who live in the Upstate New York area aren’t likely to miss Tori, which the company has enlisted to try and improve the chain’s drive-thru experience. Tori is no ordinary hire — Panera is hoping the voice AI ordering technology will improve efficiency and increase the speed at which orders are taken, per Business Wire....

Why You Should Always Use A Timer When Cooking Inna Vlasova/Shutterstock By Karen Hart/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 2:55 pm EST Kitchen timers are a tool that you may be dismissive of when you are cooking. But if you are not getting the results you want and find yourself over or undercooking your dishes, you may want to start using them. And if you don’t have a kitchen timer, it might be time to invest in one....

Why You Should Think Twice About Ordering Wendy’s Chili Cheese Fries stockcreations/Shutterstock By James Lewis/April 11, 2022 12:36 pm EST Heat may well be beneficial for a bad back, but it’s not necessarily universally admired — after all, people live in places like Alaska for a reason. Climate aside, spicy food is an especially common example of how controversial heat can be. It’s not for everyone. Some people simply don’t want spicy food to rip apart their throat and turn their eyes into the Niagara Falls during a flood....

Why You Should Think Twice About Using Aluminum Foil For Leftovers grey_and/Shutterstock By Jared Kaufman/May 28, 2022 2:06 pm EST It seems like a no-brainer: After dinner, you close up your leftovers in a sheet of aluminum foil and pop them in the fridge. But before you reach for the Reynolds wrap, you should probably think again about the safest ways to store food for later. Foil traps heat and doesn’t create an airtight seal in the way that other wraps and containers can (via Taste of Home)....

50 Best Macaron Flavors Ranked Elena Eryomenko/Shutterstock By Julia Dunn/Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 12:08 pm EST Arguably and almost inexplicably, it was the hyper-aesthetic reimagination of French absolutist monarchs in Sofia Coppola’s 2007 “Marie Antoinette” that literally brought macarons back into the American mainstream via the silver screen (via Entertainment Weekly). Pastel-montages of powdered-face beauties surrounded by seemingly endless pastel mountains of macarons as “I Want Candy” blared was the stuff of dreams, Tumblr aesthetic, and indulgence....

christianthiel.net/Shutterstock By Elise DeVoe AND Ceara Milligan/Updated: July 13, 2022 12:31 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Plenty of shelf-stable snacks are discounted in honor of the occasion, too. Even if you aren’t planning to spend a ton of money on Prime Day, you can still score sweet discounts on smaller kitchen essentials, snacks included. After all, why pay full price when you don’t have to?...

Burrito Chains That Are Taking Over The U.S. Shutterstock By Andrew Sheldon/Updated: April 21, 2022 3:39 pm EST Mexican restaurants are seriously big business in the United States, where they’re expected to bring in more than $66 billion in 2021, per Statista. That’s nearly $30 billion more than just 10 years ago. So, why the massive change? A lot of credit can be given to the powerful rise of burrito chains across the country....

Costco Fans Are Freaking Out Over Its Returning Croissant Lunch Kit Reddit By Naomi Kennedy/April 19, 2022 12:20 pm EST We’ve all probably had at least one day in our lives when we’ve missed out on eating lunch. Perhaps you didn’t have time to make lunch ahead of time and planned on stepping out for a bite to eat, but suddenly found yourself with absolutely zero time to grab a meal once the lunch hours rolled around....

Geoffrey Zakarian Just Dropped The Recipe For His Favorite Dessert Roy Rochlin/Getty Images By Olivia Bria/March 18, 2022 12:12 pm EST Food Network is no stranger to Geoffrey Zakarian. You may have seen him on the infamous Iron Chef, Chopped, or even Cooks vs. Cons. Now, Geoffrey has made his way onto Instagram, with popular fitness posts and dinner dishes (bolognese and gnocchi to name a few). Recently, Zakarian’s secret egg salad ingredient was a hit with fans who couldn’t wait to try it for themselves....

Giada De Laurentiis Promoted This Famous Butcher’s Salt Blend Kevin Winter/Getty Images By Felix Behr/Feb. 27, 2022 5:27 am EST One face of it, pinzimonio is an eminently simple recipe. In fact, it is simply that simple. For those who don’t know, Taste Atlas describes pinzimonio as an antipasto that consists of cut vegetables and a small bowl of olive oil spiked with vinegar, lemon juice, and seasoning. Some recipes, like one posted by Great Italian Chefs, might toss in chili powder, oregano, ground peppers, and vinegar sans lemon juice....

Here’s Why Restaurants Are Opening Locations In The Metaverse Bloomberg/Getty Images By Amy Hamblen/May 31, 2022 10:34 pm EST In 1982 the term “metaverse” was strictly science fiction. According to Forbes, that was the year Neil Stevenson wrote his novel, “Snow Crash,” which features characters who would break away from their daily, dystopian lives using a virtual world. Fast-forward to today, and, as Forbes explains, the term has come to mean “a fully immersive internet” incorporating augmented and virtual reality and using “persistent avatars....

How Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential Got Started Craig Barritt/Getty Images By Margaret McCormick/June 21, 2022 4:32 pm EST The well-worn path to getting a book published generally involves securing an agent to help bring your book to a publisher, developing a well-crafted book proposal, submitting the proposal to a publisher, and waiting — for the green light or, sadly, a rejection (per MasterClass). You didn’t need to be a well-established name and best-selling author like J....

How Eating Pickles Could Help You Recover From A Hangover Viktorya Telminova/Shutterstock By Khyati Dand/March 20, 2022 1:07 pm EST Ah, hangovers — the pesky aftereffect of drinking alcohol that can make last night’s memories mucky with splitting headaches, bouts of nausea, and a general inability to function (via National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism). Though they can make some of us want to swear off booze for good, hangover days are also often spent skimming the internet for magical food cures....

How Long Smoked Salmon Really Lasts, According To Michael Symon Jason Koerner/Getty Images By Ashley Delmar/Aug. 3, 2022 5:40 am EST Smoked salmon has become a popular component of North American dining in recent decades and has been a staple in the diets of indigenous peoples for generations. The delicacy is most often associated with Alaskan natives and indigenous peoples of the Northern American and Canadian Pacific, originally used to allow these tribes to preserve salmon for long periods of time, explains fishermen group Wild for Salmon....