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Extra Virgin Olive Oil May Be a Waste of Money
If you're shelling out a buck per tablespoon to cook with extra virgin olive oil, you might want to think about going a cheaper route—say humble canola oil for about a dime per tablespoon. That's...
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10 Dumbest Food Inventions
Have you ever truly benefited from a spork? Do you face a pressing need to bake muffin tops, not actual muffins? The Daily Meal rounds up the most useless food-related inventions: Quesadilla maker:...
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Make This Year's Cookout a Green One
With 10% to 30% of greenhouse gas emissions coming from food, why not make this year’s Fourth of July cookout a green opportunity? In the New York Times , Brian Palmer offers some tips: Don’t boil your...
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Food & Wine Gets Reality TV Twist
Reality television apparently isn't too lowbrow for Food & Wine. The magazine's January issue will feature a 24-page special section called Top Chef Magazine. The articles, which will be labeled as...
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Japan Eclipses France as Culinary King
Japan has overtaken France as the fine dining capital of the world—at least according to the latest Michelin Guide , reports ABC News . The newly released 2012 edition of the influential guide has...
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Happy Birthday, Julia: You Changed Our World
Julia Child would have turned 100 tomorrow, and New York Times food writer Julia Moskin pays her respects. "It was Child—not single-handedly, but close—who started the public conversation about cooking...
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Grilling App Crashes After Zuckerberg Praises It
Want to boost traffic to your site? Try getting an endorsement from Mark Zuckerberg. His Facebook post on the iGrill app caused so much traffic that it shut down iGrill's servers for two hours. The app...
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Chef 'Slow Cooked' Wife's Body for Days: Cops
Investigators say a southern California chef has confessed he "slow cooked" his wife's body for days in 2009, then disposed of the remains. "For some reason I just got violent," David Viens, a chef who...
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London Poised to Beat Paris as Foodie Haven: Michelin Boss
Looks like London's not just meat and potatoes anymore. After 16 British restaurants got their first Michelin star yesterday and three their second, the city is rivaling Paris as a destination for fine...
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Archeologists Find First Evidence of Spicy Cooking
The first foodies? Archeologists have uncovered the oldest known evidence of humans cooking with spices, they report in PLoS One . The UK researchers found traces of garlic mustard seeds in...
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Now You're Cooking With ... a Dishwasher?
For those too lazy or cheap for a microwave, NPR looks at the fabled art of ... cooking in a dishwasher. Yes, this is an actual thing that people actually do, and apparently it's growing in popularity....
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This May Be the Internet's Most Popular Recipe
What's more popular than pancakes, banana bread, and chocolate chip cookies? With 12 million views in the last five years alone, it appears the answer is John Chandler's lasagna . The dish, with its...
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'Mother of Italian Cooking' in US Dead at 89
Marcella Hazan—"the first mother of Italian cooking in America," according to restaurateur Lidia Bastianich—has died at age 89 in her Florida home, after years of emphysema. Even if you've never heard...
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12% of Your Spices May Be Contaminated With 'Filth'
Great, the FDA has identified one more thing for people to worry about in the kitchen: spices. The most comprehensive testing yet finds that 7% of spices imported into the country are contaminated with...
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How You're Cooking Your Eggs Wrong
Scrambling some eggs for breakfast? Be warned: They're "one of the most overcooked dishes in America," food writer Michael Ruhlman tells NPR . "We kill our eggs with heat." What we should really be...
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Paula Deen Cooking Up Paid Digital Network
Paula Deen is taking the next step into reinserting herself into your life: The fallen Food Network star is going digital in her quest for a comeback, announcing plans today for the Paula Deen Network,...
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IBM's Supercomputer Whips Up Own BBQ Sauce
What does a machine with no mouth, no taste buds, and no interest in consuming ribs know about barbecue sauce? Everything, according to IBM. The company says its Watson supercomputer has analyzed huge...
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Rocket Scientist Rethinks the Saucepan
It doesn't have any buttons or a touchscreen, but a new saucepan could represent serious progress in cooking technology. The Flare Pan, which doesn't look much different from a normal pan, cooks food...
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Chefs High on Cooking With Cannabis
If someone made kale trendy, someone can make marijuana recipes that taste good. So says former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl to the New York Times about a growing culinary niche: cooking with cannabis....
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Officials Investigate Paleo Cookbook ...for Babies
You're never too young, it seems, for a trendy diet. The release of an Australian paleo diet cookbook has been delayed amid concerns over its recipes for babies, Australia's ABC News reports. Officials...
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