Eleven years of Catholic school had lasting effects on me, most of which I’m still working through with my therapist. Some of its more benign legacies include my ability to sing the third verse of obscure Christmas songs, my affection for sweater vests, and my recall of random Biblical passages. There’s no passage I…

At certain restaurants, guests go into a meal knowing they’ll take home leftovers. It’s the entire premise of Olive Garden’s “Buy One, Take One” special, in which diners get an entree at the restaurant and one to take home, starting at $12.99. But all those doggie bags add up to a lot of packaging; why can’t customers…

You may raise an eyebrow at single-subject cookbooks: “Am I really going to make enough cake pops to justify an entire book on the subject?” (I owned the cake pop cookbook. I made them once and donated the book thereafter.)

Basil is one of the easiest herbs to grow at home, thriving even in small containers on apartment fire escapes. If you subsequently find yourself with a bumper crop of your own—or you just went on an herb shopping spree at the farmer’s market—then you’ve made your fair share of pesto pasta and pesto pizza. What else…

Don’t blink. Seriously. In the time it takes you to draw half a breath or sneeze, you’ll miss the entirety of this machine solving a Rubik’s cube. At just 0.38 seconds from the moment a keypress is registered by a computer to the final turn of the cube, it’s the record for fastest machine solve. (The human record…

There’s been much hand-wringing this week on social media about the concept of—I’m so sorry—“foodie calls,” when people go on dates they’re not particularly interested in just to score free food. The practice recently got the full what-does-it-all-mean treatment in The Atlantic, and like a sudden summer downpour…

Most coverage of the rollout of meatless fast-food burgers like Burger King’s Impossible Whopper and White Castle’s Impossible Slider pegs them as a long-awaited drive-thru option for vegans. But new data indicates it’s not vegans who are buying them, but meat eaters.

Like any good American, I love corn in all its forms, but sweet corn-on-the-cob is in a league of its own: crunchy, nostalgic, and slippery with butter. But nothing in life is truly perfect. Those damn corn silks, the thin hairs that snake and snag between the kernels, slow down what would otherwise be a painless…

It has come to my attention that my colleague, Kate Bernot, has never cracked open a peanut shell with her teeth. I know this because when I mentioned this to her, she reacted with a horror as if she witnessed the Holy Ghost. What follows is a conversation over Slack of me attempting to expose her to the joys of…

Update, July 17, 2019: Responding to public pressure, including a Change.org petition launched by two U.K. children, McDonald’s says it will decrease the number of hard plastic toys offered with U.K. Happy Meals. Nation’s Restaurant News reports the change hasn’t yet come to the U.S., where this week McDonald’s rolled…

I’m grateful to our readers for a number of things, but one truly wonderful aspect of our audience is they allow—and even seem to appreciate—our bizarre food-related thought experiments. What if we made a sandwich out of KFC skins? What if offices served mac and cheese instead of pizza at meetings? What if we sent…

Bacon Bitch knows it’s on to something. We hadn’t heard of the Miami Beach breakfast and lunch restaurant, and we are indebted to the South Florida Sun Sentinel for bringing it to our attention. The restaurant—presumably friends with Eggslut, Lasagna Whore, and Ham Sandwich Asshole—has created a whole identity around…

Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and arguing on Slack.

Despite the profusion of Bob Ross merchandise, the goods the man actually produced—his paintings—are notoriously difficult to find, let alone purchase. Why? The New York Times took on the question, leading them to Bob Ross Inc. headquarters in Herndon, Virginia:

Even if you’re fuzzy on the finer points of what precisely the keto diet is, you’ve likely heard the term more often within the past year. According to the Mayo Clinic, the keto diet’s high-fat, low-carbohydrate regimen means your body begins burning fat for energy, a state called ketosis. (All that fat plus a…

Once America better understood the risks of secondhand smoke, publicly lighting a cigarette—especially around children—came to be seen as almost an aggressive act. A study recently published in the Journal Of Alcohol And Drugs suggests “secondhand drinking” is its own social ill, causing harm to 20% of Americans…

Just two weeks ago, I opened the menu at Brady O’Generic’s Pub & Grille in the Seattle airport, where I could read that a Caesar salad would set me back $12 and a burger would total $15. But the beer, wine, and cocktails? No prices listed there. It’s a pet peeve of mine—I know I’m about to be ripped off, but I’d like…

Restaurant kitchens have a reputation for not being the most gentle of workplaces. Not only is the work itself difficult, but some chefs still think macho, militaristic kitchen culture—which can at worst become outright abuse—is acceptable. Exhibit A: A chef at Calcot & Spa in the Cotswolds, England, says he was…