As you’ve probably heard, after 68 years Condé Nast is closing the book on foodie mag Gourmet–Gawker even took an empty cubicle tour of the publication’s office–leaving many gourmands unsure where to turn for recipes and food news of all sorts. Have no fear, however, because we’ve been cooking up a listicle of 8 Blogs [...]

October, in case you weren’t already aware, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so get aware. And more so than just about any other medical cause, the folks behind breast cancer awareness have some really spectacular merchandising and licensing ideas, which is how they’ve come up with the items listed in Comedy.com’s 15 Strangest Breast Cancer [...]

Today is World Vegetarian Day (and, in related news, the first day of Vegetarian awareness month), and though all our pledges to go veggie over the years have eventually been undone, we really mean it this time. For inspiration, we’ll be watching plenty of movies and TV to draw strength from these Top 10 Vegetarian [...]

We work in an office, but, happily, we’re either very honest and expressive about our feelings, or very patiently repressive, so we never encounter (or author) any angry notes to co-workers. It may also have to do with the size of our office, which wouldn’t allow for much anonymity in the posting of said nasty [...]

As a general nutritional rule, we’re always a little suspicious of foods that require a cute animated spokesperson to give them some kind of appeal they can’t achieve by just showing us the food. Gunaxin’s listicle of 25 Famous Animated Food Mascots does a good job of chronicling that very problem, and though we agree [...]

Today is TV Dinner Day, which is a fancy way of saying that the first TV dinner was sold by Swanson 55 years ago today. Fortunately we arrived late enough on the scene that we weren’t raised on those seminal ready-made meals, but looking over some of the flavors of yore, we suddenly feel like [...]

As we all know all too well, people get some really terrible tattoos. From logo tattoos and unicorn tattoos to Obama tattoos and misspelled tattoos, folks just don’t stop to think long enough to realize that the thing about to be permanently written on their skin is extremely lame, uncool, silly, offensive or wrong. We [...]

As children, we were often encouraged to play with our food, as doing so was seen as a way to promote creative thinking and unconventional use of materials and objects. There were french fry cabins, eggplant sunsets and, of course, the meatloaf locomotive, which we affectionately christened the “meatlocomotive.” The latter would fit nicely into [...]

As kids we had some killer cool lunch boxes. There was a Batman one for a little while in 5th grade that was totally hot. A couple years before we’d asserted our lunch box cool with a flashy red Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles number, but we eventually lost touch with our fans when we sported [...]

Exactly 140 years ago today, Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York patented the very first waffle iron. His was a simple model, which sat atop wood or gas ovens, and whose two cast iron plates were attached by a hinge. Though the mechanics of modern day waffle design are basically the same (except, you know, [...]