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Wendy’s Creates Baconator Fries
via BurgerBusiness The alternative to adding something completely new to the menu is to shuffle on-hand pantry ingredients to create something familiar that doesn’t complicate operations. Burger King is especially adept at this, juggling toppings to create new Whopper variations. Wendy’s now shows its skill with this culinary strategy by...
Read moreBurger Chains Beef Up for Summer
via BurgerBusiness Burger chains all put their menus on diets but you know how it is: summer comes and good intentions melt away. A parade of new items is marching onto burger-chain menus or into their test-market pipelines, and no chain has been more active than McDonald’s, which took an...
Read more14 Most Dangerous Summer Foods
via Health.com by Linda Melone, Health.com Who doesn’t love picnics and barbecues? Thing is, if you don’t practice safe food preparation, outdoor eating can also set the stage for foodborne illness. Every year approximately 1 in 6 Americans gets sick, and 128,000 are hospitalized from foodborne diseases, according to the...
Read moreA Flavor Chemist Explains Burger Toppings
via Dan Pashman A great burger is a thing of beauty. But it’s also the product of a complex array of variables: meat, bun, toppings, cooking method, and more — like an equation for handheld deliciousness. (Not to be confused with the Burgers equation from fluid mechanics, which is far...
Read moreMcDonald’s Tests ‘Signature Burger,’ ‘Mini Meals’
via BurgerBusiness In selected markets McDonalds is trying out a “Signature Burger,” a new low-price entry that anchors what’s been rechristened the “Lovin’ Value Menu.” The Signature Burger doesn’t bring new ingredients to the McDonald’s pantry. It combines two regular burger patties with white Cheddar cheese, tomato, lettuce and creamy...
Read moreBest Burger Restaurants in America
via GAYOT.com There are few foods more all-American than the hamburger, which is why we consider it our civic duty to bring you the best examples of this national treasure from across the country. While the burger in its simplest form is a ground beef patty between two slices of...
Read moreBest Colleges and College Towns for Good Food
via Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz Given all the popular cooking shows on TV these days, no wonder high school students (and their parents) are beginning to ask how food is at different colleges and about the food scene in nearby neighborhoods and towns. I have personal experience with a “foody” son....
Read moreThe Most Audacious Burger List
via Eat Drink Lucky It’s National Burger Month and Eat Drink Lucky has curated the ten best burgers in honor of the occasion. We looked for a certain bravado, an audacity of flavor and a gung ho approach to this most humble of dishes. Here is the list for you,...
Read moreIconic Creator of America’s Best Burger, Ann Price, Dies at 72
via Billy Honor The creator of America’s best burger died recently. Her full name was Annie Bell Price; but to those who knew her and loved her famous burgers, she was simply known as “Ms. Ann.” For forty-plus years, Ann was the owner and head cook-in-charge of an Atlanta snack...
Read moreThe 16 Best Street-Food Cities in the World, Ranked
via Thrillist By: Dan Gentile Credit: Dan Gentile/Thrillist Sometimes the finest dining a country has to offer isn’t in a Michelin-starred restaurant — it’s within a few feet of spinning Michelin tires. Street food is the true fuel of the people, and there’s no better way to get to know...
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I love food. Unfortunately, I can't cook worth a damn. I've been known to even burn water.
When I watch chefs and good cooks on tv, I'm so envious of their skills. This blog is the closest I get to cooking, other than the microwave ;)
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