The Time-lauded “Silence Breakers” movement started in September with revelations about sexual harassment and assault accusations against Hollywood uber-producer Harvey Weinstein. Although the original New York Times article containing those revelations led to a virtual avalanche of stories about other alleged (and…

In Hasty Gourmet, The Takeout writers offer reliable recipes that are dinner-party worthy with only a handful of ingredients and a minimum of effort. 

It’s surprising, and heartening when a show like The Affair, which sometimes gets bogged down in its own headiness, can turn out its best-ever episode in its fourth season. Can still offer an unexpected plot twist, and even draw on its own duplicitous viewpoints to add some mystery to that event. Last season I mostly…

As school approaches, and I’m searching out orange looseleaf folders at Target and back-to-school outfits at Old Navy, there’s a special sort of dread that usually leads me straight to The Container Store: The return of daily homemade lunches.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, August 19. All times are Eastern.

Samantha Bee only gets more fun when she goes off set and on location on Full Frontal, and her journey this week offers a valuable view into how immigrants constitute the backbone of the restaurant industry. Many are undocumented, and sending money back home, so they often do the food-industry jobs no one wants to do…

Cans of wine seem to have an implicit advantage ahead of bottles of wine: lightweight, unbreakable, portable, easy to open. As a result, as Forbes notes, although retail U.S. wine sales were flat between June 2017 and June 2018, “sales of wine in boxes rose by 7 percent and sales of wine in cans jumped a whopping 43…

The source of that food-poisoning outbreak that sickened hundreds of people at a Powell, Ohio Chipotle may have finally been discovered. NPR reports that “Health officials have determined that a type of bacteria found in food left at unsafe temperatures is the cause of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that…

The school year got off to a bumpy start in Richmond, Missouri, where Dear Elementary school posted the following new policy on its Facebook page:

Recently we published a story on whether or not you can still use ground beef that has turned brown (TL;DR: Probably, but if it smells bad it’s got to go). A commenter then posted another interesting question in the is-it-okay-to-eat category: How can you tell when blue cheese goes bad? After all, it smells pretty…

It’s the dog days of August; it’s hot; and back-to-school sales are already happening. You’ve likely already taken your vacation, hopefully fulfilled some things on your summer bucket list (water slides, outdoor concert), and frankly, you’re out of energy to do much except hang out on the sofa with some air…

As The Takeout has previously noted, bears this summer are horny, hungry, and ready to party. This has caused them to wander into people-filled places where they wouldn’t ordinarily venture, looking for food and hookups. This wanderlust led a bear into a liquor store in Bristol, Connecticut, where fortunately the…

Ohio man Matthew Matheny clearly wasn’t planning on a huge hike when he headed out for Mount St. Helens the morning of August 6. The Washington state friends he was visiting had to work, so he borrowed their car and took off to check out a trail, only wearing a pair of flip-flops. Unfortunately, he got lost, and wound…

You’d be hard-pressed to find a parent of a toddler who didn’t keep a baggie full of Cheerios on their person at all times for daily snacking emergencies. No doubt parents everywhere will find the news this morning particularly distressing. As Fortune reports, “If you or your children are eating Cheerios right now,…

If you are of a certain (millennial) age, you may remember Four Loko, a fruit-flavored 12-percent-alcohol malt beverage that also had the caffeine level of a cup of coffee. The result, according to this fascination oral history about the beverage on Grub Street, was a drink that “basically gets you super, super drunk…

Send your thoughts and prayers toward Brooklyn, friends, as the borough grapples with its latest culinary roadblock. A article entitled “Hey, Where’s My Oat Milk?” in which magazine?—ah The New Yorker, indubitably—outlines Brooklyn’s current predicament (ominously subtitled: “Brooklyn residents embraced the non-dairy…