Share Our Strength’s series of Taste of the Nation events casts childhood hunger in a disturbing light — as well it should: Childhood hunger is disturbing. It’s especially disturbing in a rich country like the United States, where we shouldn’t ha...
This was the display McDonald’s marketing people set up earlier this week as they promoted the introduction, announced several weeks ago, of the Egg White Delight McMuffin.
It’s like any other egg McMuffin, minus 50 calories, a ...
Chipotle Mexican Grill doesn’t launch new menu items very often. The fast-casual burrito giant tests things from time to time, like chorizo or some smaller items for kids, and at the moment it’s seeing if its new tofu offering has legs in...
Aureole, chef Charlie Palmer’s flagship restaurant in New York City, has evolved a lot with the times.
Once a luxurious fine-dining restaurant in a super-rich section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the restaurant was moved in 2009 to...
Food + Wine magazine’s parent company, American Express, e-mailed a press release yesterday morning announcing who the magazine’s ten “Best New Chefs” of the year would be.
Considering the fact that a party announcing who those chefs were was sc...
This was the line outside the McDonald's on 6th Avenue between 14th and 15th streets in New York City this afternoon. Considering the fact that this particular McDonald's location was giving away free sandwiches, it’s a pretty short line...
I’ve written a lot about chicken wings lately.
More precisely, I’ve written about things that aren’t chicken wings but apparently wish they were.
I reported here about how sales of boneless wings, which are of course pieces of ch...
Anthony Bourdain, in his 2000 book Kitchen Confidential, had this to say about brunch: “You can dress brunch up with all the focaccia, smoked salmon and caviar in the world, but it’s still breakfast.”
Bourdain is one of many, many restaurant ...
