Ever since the foodies took over the world we’ve been besieged with the concept of “food pairings”. Not content with insisting that food is only good when there’s some jizzy foam or liquid nitrogen in it, the foodies are now telling us what we need to drink with different foods.
The whole food pairing movement started [...]
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From the Foodies Fridge: The Best Diet Soda Pairings
January 20th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Boston, Food, Humor
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From the Vault: 2008 Halloween Candy Live Blog!
October 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Food, Humor
Well, it’s finally here…the greatest day of the year! As usual, my wife is out trick-or-treating with the kids and I’m home manning the door. The scary music mix is on the stereo and the faux-Rastafarian dreadlocks are on my head. I haven’t eaten any candy yet today so I’m ready for a full night [...]
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In Defense of (Shitty) American Beer
September 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Food, Humor
“Thank you, microbreweries, for making my alcoholism seem like a neat hobby.” – Jimmy Fallon
The fact that there is such a thing as “beer snobs” is both oxymoronic and deeply disturbing.
In the never-ending battle between snobs and slobs, us slobs were fortunate to claim some of the most awesome things that our society has to [...]
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A Truffle Scuffle, or The Most Dangerous Word in the English Language
May 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Food, Humor
Unless it’s a smutty double-entendre I’m generally not a big fan of words that have multiple meanings. So I was trying to think of the most egregious example of a word that poses the greatest threat of misinterpretation. And after many, many years of reading dictionaries, attending prestigious universities and interviewing linguists, I [...]
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