Two dudes named Josh Rabinowitz and Nick Vatterott thought it would be fun to play a prank on their friend Micah Sherman. They set up a card table with a whole cut in the middle and one of them knelt underneath to surprise Sherman when he walked in the door.Sherman…
Primanti Bros. is a legendary Pittsburgh restaurant and pizzeria known for its monstrous pizzas and popular “Pittsburgher” sandwich.We’ve been known to frequent the 24-hour Primanti Bros. location in Fort Lauderdale after a few too many… cigarettes. But massive hunger aside, there’s a reason that people flock to the restaurant: Its food…
In Food Trucks: Dispatches and Recipes From the Best Kitchens on Wheels, author Heather Shouse visits more than 100 food trucks across the country (including South Florida) and handpicks recipes from some of the tastiest trucks in the roadside business. Shouse talks to Clean Plate Charlie about everything from how…
Just in time for beach and boating season, Reef has introduced the flip flop flask. For about $40, you can hide a few shots of booze in your shoe. We’re thinking this is perfect for smuggling a little pick-me-up to the beach or on a boat. Heck, we might even fill them…
It seems a little strange that America treats criminals as well as it does.Yes, we lock them up in prisons with other burly men (or women) and let them out of their cells infrequently. And yes, there is the chance that they will be raped, shanked, or beaten to a…
Stephen Colbert made a disturbing discovery on the Colbert Report. Turns out that some wacky Chinese scientists, in another effort to feed the world, are genetically modifying dairy cows by implanting human genes into cow embryos. The result being these poor cows will produce human breast milk. Colbert wonders what’s…
Sandra Lee, host of Food Network’s Semi-Homemade Cooking, proves that you neither have to be a chef nor interesting to have a cooking show on television. Though Anthony Bourdain has called her the “frightening hell spawn of Kathie Lee and Betty Crocker” (and we tend to listen to EVERYTHING Tony…
There are a lot of scientists working to cure the world’s hunger crisis. Scientists are working with crops, trying to find better grains and even growing meat in test tubes. That’s all great, and we commend them, but one Japanese scientist has gone way too far. Mitsuyuki Ikeda at Okayama…
Last night, Eric Ripert tried to cook some sole on the Late Show With David Letterman, but nothing comes easy when it comes to Dave.First, Dave grills the Le Bernadin hottie on the general safety of seafood coming from Japan. When Ripert assures Dave that all his fish is checked for…
Chances are you’re as addicted to playing Angry Birds as we are. Who doesn’t like catapulting fat, mean little birds into obstacles in order to squash them? Rovio, the creators of these pesky little avian kamikazes, is cashing in on the success of Angry Birds by self-publishing a family cookbook…
Last week my favorite cheftestant, Hugh, was sent packing for his mayo as science project (which is ironic because I always thought of mayo as more “weird science” than condiment). That leaves Mary Sue, Floyd, Traci and Naomi to duke it out for spots in next week’s finale. Quickfire The…
Okay, so last week Big Mommy–I mean, the fed’rull gubmint–unveiled its latest ploy to convince us to eat all the things we really don’t want to. It’s the Food Plate, called My Plate, the successor to the Food Pyramid, which during its lifetime had about as much influence on the…
On last night’s Conan, Top Chef Masters Aussie hunk, Curtis Stone, tried to teach Conan how to score on date night by cooking his lady a nice meal. But get two guys to play with their meat together and hilariousness ensues. As Curtis tells Conan to “get his pork in…
Snack foods that all but promise to send you to the emergency room. Fast-food items that invoke natural disasters and use meat in place of grains. Bacon dishes that require weaving skills. A hell of a lot of modern food products sound as if they were developed by a room…
Jon Stewart went off like a bottle rocket on Donald Trump and Sarah Palin’s decision to dine together at a Times Square pizza joint the other day. Nop, he didn’t touch on politics, though I’m sure he wanted to. What really got him going was…the pizza! You see, New York…
It’s not really news that Candace Crawford and Tony Romo got hitched. The story is centuries old — football star marries former beauty queen. Like any young couple, they’re in love and in desperate need of kitchen supplies. That’s probably why they registered at Crate and Barrel. If you didn’t…
Sugar news has been flying all over the place. What – you missed the food fight? Well, here’s a recap. A YouTube lecture on sugar goes viral. The speaker? A UCSF childhood obesity specialist who called sugar toxic — not like, a little bit bad for you, like alcohol and…
We’ve all seen the Wheaties boxes that have celebrity sports figures on the box — everyone from Lance Armstrong to Yogi Berra has helped sell cereal. While Wheaties are still around, we found a bunch of other celebrity cereals that haven’t fared so well. Here are a few of our favorites…
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution will be back on the air this Friday. The first episode of the series brought us pink slime and a busload of sugar. We thought we would check out what’s been happening with Oliver since — both on his show and in the news…
The cheftestants walk into the kitchen and see headphones, a blindfold, and a nose plug. This could only mean one thing – a late night of partying with the cast of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. (wait – it’s not?) OK, then the blindfold means that the cheftestants need…
Bon Appetit is usually known for its food porn covers – juicy roasts, steaming bowls of pasta, a cake that makes you want to eat the paper its printed on. But the June issue has a different kind of “dish” on it – Gwyneth Paltrow. In the magazine and website,…
Anthony Bourdain is equal parts brilliant, snarky, and, well, hot. He’s the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, tattoo-sporting, drug-using bad boy from your younger days all grown up. Make that, mostly grown up. With a family, a hit show on the Travel Channel, and a series of books, Bourdain has toned it down…
