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Why I Hate a Food You Probably Love: Pickles
via lbreslouer@thrillist.com (Thrillist) Pickles: I hate them. I don’t know what my deal is. I know everyone else fiends the things. They’re clearly a very lovable foodstuff. But I hate them. Every last briny one of them. And I’ve tried to confront this hate! Lord knows I’ve tried. I’ve got...
Read moreCronut Burger, Breakfast Sandwich In Chicago: Devil Dawgs To Debut Hype-Heavy ‘Wiches (PHOTOS)
via joseph.erbentraut@huffingtonpost.com (Joseph Erbentraut) It was bound to happen sooner or later. The cronut, perhaps the most (over?)hyped mash-ups ever, has itself been mashed up with another greasy American favorite: the cheeseburger. On Sept. 10, Devil Dawgs, a hot dog stand in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, will unveil two new...
Read moreConsider the Onion
via annemaxfield@gmail.com (Anne Maxfield) In honor of Labor Day, the Accidental Locavore would like you to take a closer look at an onion. Why an onion and why on Labor Day? As it turns out, there is an awful lot of labor connected with something as everyday as an onion...
Read moreFood & Wine: Best Burgers in the U.S. (PHOTOS)
via Food & Wine The burger, America’s quintessential comfort food, can now be enjoyed in an impossibly endless number of ways. There are round-the-clock burgers at 24-hour-roadside joints and ephemeral late-night burgers sold out in mere minutes; burgers grilled in hundred-year-old cast-iron broilers and burgers steamed in state-of-the-art ovens; burgers...
Read moreBurgerBusiness: Top 10 Foods on British Menus Starts with Burgers
via BurgerBusiness Burgers are the most commonly found food on increasingly Americanized British menus, reports London-based researcher Horizons’ 2013 Menurama survey. That Americanization extends to cost-cutting measures: Burgers average 6.35 ounces, a 17 percent decrease from the 7.69-oz. average found in the summer of 2010. Still burgers showed a 13...
Read moreThrillist: 10 Stupidly Expensive Burgers You Need to Eat Before You Die
via Thrillist CREDIT: Serendipity 3 Think nine bucks is too pricey for a guacamole burger at Chili’s? Well you’re definitely right. But things get worse. We rounded up some of the most insanely priced burgers in the world, then sold all our catamarans so we could buy all of said...
Read moreDavid Rosengarten: Griddle Me This!
via David Rosengarten It is raining cats and dogs today. Drat. Today is just the day I’ve chosen to cook up some steer, in my annual burger-on-the-grill party. And the downpour will not allow this to happen on my outdoor grill. Am I disconsolate about the wash-out? Not at all!...
Read moreBon Appetit: The Pop-Culture History of the Tomato, from the Stage to the Simpsons
via Bon Appetit Michael Y. Park The tomato may be a relative newcomer to the wider world’s dining table, but there’s no denying that the spherical fruit…or is it vegetable?…has made a huge impact on popular culture. Sure, it doesn’t have a devastating and world-changing famine named after it, like...
Read moreLiza de Guia: Grazin’s Grassfed Burgers: A Small Diner Aims to Make The Cleanest Burger You’ll Ever Eat
via Liza de Guia “It’s an artificial cheapness that’s associated with meat in America. I rather you spend your money on a good burger and just do it less frequently.” Meet Andrew Chiappinelli, the owner of Grazin’, the world’s FIRST farm-to-table direct, 100 percent Animal Welfare Approved grassfed and finished...
Read moreBurgerBusiness: Burger Backs Off Menu Strategy
via BurgerBusiness Following the announcement of negative Q2 comp-sales growth in the U.S. and Canada, Burger King says it is pulling back from its menu/marketing strategy of introducing limited-time products in multi-item, seasonal waves. It intends to introduce fewer items at any one time to improve impact and appeal. Burger...
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