Food & Drink

  • Everglades Gator Grill

    11 Foods You’ve Never Eaten Unless You’re From Florida

    Florida might be known for theme parks, hurricanes, humidity, and beautiful beaches. However, the state’s mashup of Southern, Caribbean, and Latin American influences has also created a menu that’s intriguing, bizarre, and deeply local. Some dishes are so specific to…

  • Good & Gather Pea Zucchini Kale & Thyme Baby Food

    Target Baby Food Recalled for Lead Contamination

    It seems like nothing you buy at the grocery store is safe anymore, and now that unfortunately includes baby food. Target quietly issued a recall on some of its store brand baby food last month, and the U.S. Food and…

  • Four regional pies on a cutting board on an old fence on an old road

    Skip the Road Trip: Bake Your Way Across America With These 12 Legendary State Pie Recipes

    From Alaska’s campfire salmon pie to Florida’s no-bake Key Lime, these regional desserts prove there’s a lot more to America than apple and pumpkin.Pie is as American as, well, you get the gist. According to a survey by the American…

  • A customer carries a package of toilet paper at a Costco store on March 14, 2020 in Novato, California.

    Costco’s Worst Kirkland Signature Products, According to Shoppers

    Costco’s private label, Kirkland Signature, is not your average bargain-bin brand, and calling it a “generic” label doesn’t quite cover it. Costco partners with big-name manufacturers, keeps the branding low-key, and passes the savings on to you. So you get…

  • Friends eating burgers and fries and have fun in outdoor restaurant

    States That Eat the Most Fast Food

    Escoffier School of Culinary Arts analyzed some data on the number of fast-food restaurants in each state, as well as general fast-food consumption across the country, and gave each state a score (for the full, complicated methodology, check here). Want…

  • McDonald's vanilla soft serve

    Why McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Never Work

    Every few weeks, usually at night, I have a sudden craving for vanilla soft serve from McDonald’s. But just as I start to fantasize about the immaculate, snow-white swirl, I remember the futility of it all: A working McDonald’s soft-serve…