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The Washington Capitals NHL team has an in-house chef who prepares healthy, lean meals for players before games. But captain Alex Ovechkin skips them in favor of his favorite pre-game fill-up: chicken Parmesan. According to CBS Sports, Ovechkin has for years had a standing order with Mamma Lucia’s restaurant for an…
There are valid reasons to choose a vegan diet: health concerns about meat, lowering one’s environmental impact, ethical qualms about meat-eating. So it’s sort of baffling that a U.K. vegan advocacy group, Viva!, created an ad linking hormones in cow’s milk with cancer—a debated claim that, because it couldn’t be…
Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.
Amuse Our Bouche is The Takeout’s column that answers your burning, boiling, and flambéed food questions.
If you follow Kim Kardashian West, Amber Rose, or other such reality star-entertainers on Instagram, you know that every few posts is an #ad for some kind of crap beauty product: “waist trainers,” “flat tummy tea,” etc. But Kim Kardashian West stirred up controversy this week when she posted a sponsored Instagram…
“Best by.” “Use by.” “Best if used by.” “Sell by.” Is there any difference? The government doesn’t regulate the labeled dates on the groceries we buy (baby formula is the sole exception), so these dates can be confusing to customers who are unsure whether a product is actually safe to eat past its stamped date. The…
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Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.
“Would you eat food grown on a landfill?” asks a KVUE News anchor, eyebrows raised provocatively. (Viewers are meant to sneer, I guess, and recoil in horror?) The report goes on to highlight the work of Joy Youwakim, a University Of Texas economics major who is exploring the idea of growing crops on top of a former…
I had to ban Four Loko from my apartment circa 2010 after some friends made complete fools of themselves during a daytime party. Thankfully, the manufacturer has since changed its recipe to remove caffeine, taurine, and guarana, generally rendering its behavioral effects less horrifying. But now there’s another…
As a high school and early college student, I went through a completely cliché phase in which I (church youth group member, honor student, giant nerd) wanted to date guys who were “rebels.” But I didn’t know any meaningful rebels, so I mostly settled for guys who had bad tattoos, no ambition, and smoked a lot of weed.…
Last Call is The Takeout’s online watering hole where you can chat, share recipes, and use the comment section as an open thread. Here’s what we’ve been reading/watching/listening around the office today.
Most unincarcerated people don’t give prison food much thought, let alone the idea of vegan prison food. But California state senator Nancy Skinner says offering prisoners vegan meal options would be beneficial to their health and to the reduction of greenhouse gases. She’s introduced a bill, SB 1138, which would…
Americans like fast-food beef burgers, fried chicken, bacon breakfast tacos, even fish-filet sandwiches. So why not add lamb to the list? Bloomberg has an interesting look at how chain restaurants and fast-food joints are slowly introducing more lamb to the menu, warily watching consumers to see how the meat will…
IceBox Cafe at Miami International Airport seems like just the kind of place you want to find when you’re trying to eat healthy and fresh food while traveling: It touted its “farm-to-terminal” ingredients, locally sourced cocktail garnishes, and even “caught that day” fish. The reality? The food came from Sysco.
There is an entire generation who came of age after MillerCoors had already laid Zima to rest in 2008. They’ll never know its specific malt-beverage sweetness, nor other ’90s hallmarks like brown lip liner or The Rachel. How like, totally tragic for them, right?
Thanks to a recent interest in baking sourdough bread, I’m flying through butter at an alarming rate. But try as I might to remember to leave some butter unrefrigerated, I’m usually staring at rock-hard, refrigerated butter every time I want to spread some on a bread slice snack. Because I also don’t have a microwave…
