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

  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. We bought huge servings of French Fries, smothered in salt, ketchup, and mustard, l

  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

  What’s round with a hole and not a donut? What can be threaded on a dowel or string or used, frozen, as a baby’s teether? What did American travel writers, Beatrice and Ira Freeman, describe as an “unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis?” The answer is easy – it’s the unassumin

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 America;

  Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. I was born with a chocolate one. I’m not alone. The global chocolate market is worth a paltry $138.5 Billion. Each European munches on a yearly average of 24 pounds. Americans consume 15 pounds a year or the equivalent of

Broccoli vs. cheeseburgers. Lettuce vs. filet mignon. Apple vs. hot fudge sundae (with whipped cream and a cherry) It’s a food fight! Memories of golden honey glazed ham, apple pie a la mode, and dark chocolate mousse battle with the harsh reality of what’s good for you. The words dan

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 lightning. That’s no surprise when over one billion peo

I’m Chiquita Banana and I’m here to say I am the top banana in the world today. Chiquita is a very different banana today than when she first appeared in the 1940s commercial with Bobby Soxers and a gooey banana split. Since then we’ve been flooded with banana bread, chocolate-covered