Does Your Coffee Have Superpowers?

          Does your coffee have powers like Popeye’s spinach? Do you need Morning Mud to start the day? Do you guzzle java like a TV cop on a stakeout? Coffee. It has a lot of aliases like jitter juice, rocket fuel, cup of jolt, and cupped lightening. That’s n
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Does Your Coffee Have Superpowers?

  Does your coffee have powers like Popeye’s spinach? Do you need Morning Mud to start the day? Do you guzzle java like a TV cop on a stakeout? Coffee. It has a lot of aliases like jitter juice, rocket fuel, cup of jolt, and cupped lightening. That’s no surprise when over one bil
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WHERE’S YOUR BEEF?

  Whoppers, Wimpy, and Wahlburgers. Jimmy Buffet sang Cheeseburger in Paradise and Ronald McDonald clowned for the world. Where’s your beef? Hamburgers are an American icon as well as one of the most popular sandwiches in the world. Fifty billion burgers are eaten each year in Am
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WHAT’S IN A MEAL?

Food says a lot about you. Are you a chocolate or vanilla person? Coffee or tea?  Pizza or wonton soup? What’s in a last meal? How many “last” meals did you have before going on a diet or eating at a friend’s house (who is a terrible cook)? What about the last meal of summer or the ho
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ARE FRENCH FRIES REALLY FRENCH?

Winter. When I was a kid that meant bundling up against the bitter cold and piling into the car. Mom and Dad took us to the original Nathan’s in Brooklyn – long before most people knew the name, food, and frozen products. We bought huge servings of French Fries, smothered in salt, ket
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ARE FRENCH FRIES REALLY FRENCH?

Winter. When I was a kid that meant bundling up against the bitter cold and piling into the car. Mom and Dad took us to the original Nathan’s in Brooklyn – long before most people knew the name, food, and frozen products. We bought huge servings of French Fries, smothered in salt, ket
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LIVE BY YOUR FORK!

  Times are changing. The forks (and spoons) are getting nervous. With inflation, food shortages, droughts, and floods, our culinary future is endangered – like tigers, polar bears, and koalas. According to Hoffmann, Koplinka-Loehr, and Eiseman in their new book, Our Changi
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