4 Innovations in Food: Environmentally-Friendly, Healthy Ways of Eating You Wouldn’t Believe Actually Exist
From the farm to your face, from the air to your plate. Here are some of the new things in food.
8 Latke-Filled Nights: What to Eat (and Gift!) for Hanukkah This Year
Seems like Thanksgiving is only just in the rearview mirror, and it’s already time for Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Light! Starting at sundown on Thursday, December 10 and ending Friday, December 18, we will light the menorah for eight consecutive nights, trade gifts, and eat fried potato latkes and sufganiyot (a type of jelly-filled […]
The 15 Best Cookbooks of 2020
Goodbye, 2020, and good riddance. No one will be sorry to see you go. But as terrible a year as it was for world health, American politics, and climate change crises, I will admit begrudgingly that there was one silver lining amid the misery: people were inspired (by necessity, yes, but still) to cook for […]
The 15 Best Cookbooks of 2020
Goodbye, 2020, and good riddance. No one will be sorry to see you go. But as terrible a year as it was for world health, American politics, and climate change crises, I will admit begrudgingly that there was one silver lining amid the misery: people were inspired (by necessity, yes, but still) to cook for […]
These Chicago-Area Restaurants Are Offering Election Night Specials on Dinner and Cocktails To Go So You Have One Less Thing to Worry About
No matter who you cast your vote for, there is one thing that is for certain — election night is going to be a nail-biter. While you are glued to your TV, and your Twitter feed, why not support a local restaurant by ordering cocktails-to-go or special Election Night meals? Here are just a few […]
Why We Love Comfort Food: The Science Behind Holiday – and Covid – Indulgence
As the holidays approach — a time of year typically filled with socializing, passing appetizers and get-togethers full of merriment (laughing, talking and basically a whole lot of exhaling in public) — it is apparent that this year’s festivities will be colored by Covid-19. Let’s make the best of it. Many of us have long […]
Why We Love Comfort Food: The Science Behind Holiday – and Quarantine – Indulgence
As the holidays approach — a time of year typically filled with socializing, passing appetizers and get-togethers full of merriment (laughing, talking and basically a whole lot of exhaling in public) — it is apparent that this year’s festivities will be colored by Covid-19. Let’s make the best of it. Many of us have long […]
5 Perfect Pumpkin Recipes for National Pumpkin Day
October 26 is National Pumpkin Day, and with just a few more sleeps until Halloween, now’s the time to celebrate all things pumpkin. Because there’s clearly no better way to enjoy everyone’s favorite symbol of the season than to eat it, the Disney Parks Blog shared five delicious pumpkin recipes inspired by seasonal dishes served […]
Food in Film: These 21 Food-Forward Movies Are a Feast for Your Eyes
All of our questions are answered in the movies. Unforgettable visuals, soaring scores, characters worth knowing, language that becomes part of our lexicon. But film also has given us delicate pastel macaroons in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Marie Antoinette, a gourmet prison feast of razor thin garlic, iced lobsters and seared steak in 1990’s Goodfellas, the Naranjo […]
Not Your Basic Guide to All Things Pumpkin
There are many ways we can measure seasons: temperature changes, equinoxes, grasses growing, leaves falling. Though perhaps more than anything — sorry, nature — the thing that informs us the most about what time of year it is, is advertising. Whether it’s the Honda Summer Spectacular Event, or the Toyota NowVember Sales Event, or the […]
