As you may have heard, a Starbucks on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was bombed very early in the morning yesterday. The coffee shop’s windows shattered, but nobody was hurt. To prove that clever graphic design can be a more effective form of protest than terrorism, we’ve rounded up these 14 Remixed Starbucks Logos.

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Yesterday an amazing story in the New York Times about the growing cook-off trend in the city got us really hungry. Passionate home cooks, event planners, bloggers and a few professional foodies have generated a bonafide cook-off community in New York, which comes together fairly regularly around events like tofu, cupcakes, risotto, cassoulet, fondue, pork, [...]

Today is Eat What You Want Day, and it says a lot about our messed up relationship to food, nutrition and all things health-related that we need a special day to eat the things we otherwise won’t allow ourselves to eat. That being said, in the spirit of the day we’ll venture something beyond our [...]

The tired conventional thinking that meat-eating and self-important masculine machismo go hand in hand is losing some of its credibility. Already, two realms of hyper-exaggerated male posturing have some very visible veggies among their ranks: rappers (Common, one member each from De La Soul and Little Brother, if memory serves), and athletes.
To prove that ethical [...]

One of our absolute all-time favorite Onion articles was this hilarious piece about an ill-conceived McDonald’s mascot named the Hammurderer, who killed the restaurant’s other mascots and stole their burgers to satisfy his cravings. Certainly no real restaurant promotion has ever failed so disastrously, but several featured in mental_floss’s listicle of 7 Food Promotions Gone [...]

There might be something to this whole TV hang-out thing, aspiring television writers out there. After all, a central locale where our favorite characters always meet to talk and laugh gives us something familiar and comfortable to look forward to, and a socio-behavioral model to follow in our own friendships. To boot, the owners and [...]

Yesterday was National Pretzel Day, and while we scoured New York City from one pretzel cart to the next, we wondered what kinds of pretzels we might find if we hit the road. Shortly thereafter we overdosed on pretzels and spent the following six hours lying on a bench in a daze while our stomachs [...]

The other day we bought red peppers at the grocery store for the first time in four years. Seriously, they’ve cost $8.99 per pound for ages now, but last week they were suddenly $3.99, the same price as their less tasty green, yellow and orange cousins. We got really excited and wondered: “Maybe the days [...]

As we’ve pointed out before, food and the act of eating are loaded with all kinds of sexy symbolism, so it’s no surprise that said sex appeal is often put to use in the selling of foods. To track this trend – and spurred by last week’s premiere of Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi’s scandalous [...]

You probably didn’t know it (in truth, we didn’t until the waiter at our seafood restaurant last night told us in a delightful song-and-dance routine), but today is National Crabmeat Day. Take a few moments to process this startling information, then check out these 10 Feisty Crabs for National Crabmeat Day.
Smoking Crab

National Crabmeat Day is [...]