Food & drink

Food & drink

Luckily for U.S. imbibers, Jack Daniel's makes top-tier whiskey that's widely accessible. Here at Tasting Table, we've long been praising Jack Daniel's as the absolute best Tennessee whiskey that discerning sippers can easily locate on store shelves far and wide - which, in a roundabout way, is why Tennessee Travelers fell to the bottom of the pack in our definitive ranking of 14 Jack Daniel's whiskeys.

This is after Mike's Hot Honey announced a collaboration with Bush's beans, and Austin Eastciders, and Utz chips, and Taco Bell. You can get Mike's Hot Honey on your KFC order, or on pizza and wings from Pizza Hut. And despite partnerships with national corporations and fast food, you can also still probably find it on a pizza at whatever wood-fired Neapolitan-ish place showed up in your neighborhood a decade ago.

Note: As many redditors have pointed out in the original thread, these examples are not to discredit how useful pre-prepared foods are to those who are disabled or have a super packed schedule. There's nothing wrong with buying these from the store - we all do (I say, with a jar of pasta sauce literally sitting on my counter right now). There's no shame in it!

As a child growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in the 1970s and 80s, Sean Sherman, an Oglala Lakota member and a James Beard award-winning chef, recalls pounding dried bison and mixing it with chokeberry to create a snack called wasna. He and his cousins would often hunt for pheasants and grouse, or harvest wild berries and Thipsila, a wild prairie turnip that's a staple Lakota food.

Clarence Birdseye was a visionary. As the founder of Birds Eye Frosted Foods he revolutionized the frozen foods industry when he patented a quick-freezing machine that froze foods without damaging cell walls, ensuring the flavor, texture, and nutrition remained intact. Although Birdseye developed the patent, it was actually fish that changed the frozen foods industry forever. On a trip to the Arctic, Birdseye had seen Native Americans flash-freeze fresh fish using ice, wind, and temperature.

This is extremely important. We want to make sure we feed everybody. We want to make sure we don't have hungry people in San Francisco.

There are few things more comforting on a cold fall evening than pulling a warm dish out of the oven. This fall sheet pan gnocchi and squash bake, with its tender textures and sweet, savory, and roasty flavors, will fill your kitchen with tempting autumnal scents. With the brown-butter-fried sage and a rich, creamy white wine sauce, this sheet-pan dish might be the best way to eat pasta.

Aldi is very quickly becoming a big deal with American shoppers. The German discount retailer has surged in popularity, largely thanks to its range of products and seriously affordable prices. In fact, Aldi is hoping to open 800 new stores in the U.S. by 2028. So, it's safe to say its popularity is unlikely to die down anytime soon. But, as the Kardashians are all too aware, with more fame comes more rumors.

All it takes is one taste to notice the difference between Coca-Cola Zero Sugar and Diet Coke. Even though both are sugar-free versions of Coca-Cola, the formulations are distinct and offer different flavor profiles. Coca-Cola Zero Sugar uses the same flavorings as regular Coca-Cola, and is sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame potassium. Diet Coke only uses aspartame. As a result, the zero sugar version tastes more like the original sugar-sweetened kind.

Costco makes it easy to return and get a refund on just about any product, even without a receipt. But this warehouse retailer has its limits. Some items, like electronics, have shorter return windows, and others you can't return at all, like alcohol or tires, even if you used them just once. And when it comes to food returns, some items have extra rules.

Fresh produce cost pennies at farm stands, potlucks were filled with top-tier dishes, and the local farmers' market and restaurants were overflowing with flavorful and fresh foods. My great-grandfather, an Italian immigrant, passed down his passion for food, and I was lucky enough to inherit his love of cooking and eating. As a chef and recipe designer, born and raised in Vermont, there's nothing I love more than trying new restaurants.

Krasi is the crown jewel of the Xenia Greek Hospitality group, a polished Back Bay gem that showcases the best of Mediterranean culinary flavors and a renowned Greek wine list. While dinner takes on a more moody, candlelit ambiance, it's the daytime brunch that is a bustling affair that requires reservations well in advance. Prepare to scooch around tightly packed tables and trip over stray bags, but it's all worth it in the name of the brunch menu.

Meat and cheese trays. They are wildly time-consuming: $100 bucks a tray, $30 in food, and at least an hour in labor. Every year, at one store, a company orders at least 100 trays. It's like a $20,000 order, and they want it delivered over the course of two weeks. So, for two weeks, two to three employees just sit back and make meat and cheese trays for eight hours a day.

Figuring out the best thing on the menu at your favorite fast food place is no easy task. Places like McDonald's and Burger King are constantly innovating with new menu items and experiences to keep you coming back. We all have our old favorites, but it never hurts to expand our horizons and try something different. So how do you know what's going to be worth your money? Ask the experts.

Self-basted and uniformly browned, nothing beats the flavors of delicious rotisserie chicken. Spinning the perfect meat, though? Apparently, that's not so easy. Tasting Table reviewed the most popular grocery store rotisserie chickens and ranked them worst to best, and one major chain's was a big disappointment: Publix. In fact, our taste tester cuttingly summarized that "The most interesting thing about Publix rotisserie chicken is the packaging." Ouch.

Stepping into a dive bar can become either a disastrous choice better forgotten or a platform for an evening you never want to forget. This gamble is part of the appeal of such establishments. Whether you're looking for no-frills booze or a cheap pint to wash away the day, some of the best dive bars in every state offer the drinks and the ambiance that contribute to stories you might want to retell.

And it's not just the pubs that are worth their salt in the capital. It's bars too. From sophisticated cocktail dens to sweet wine bars and trendy natty wine joints, London has everything whatever your tipple of choice may be. Now it's official: 35 bars in London have been named amongthe world's best in the Top 500 Bars list. And we can vouch, because we've sampled drinks at nearly every bar named on the list.

Now, if you're asking why, it's because carrots release more antioxidants than other veggies during the canning process - specifically beta carotene, which is essential for things like good vision, immune function, and to protect against chronic diseases. Not to mention, carrots make for a tasty side dish that most adults and kids alike can agree on. They don't get the same bad rap as something like broccoli or Brussels sprouts, which was why I set out to collect all the brands of store-bought canned carrots.

Here at Tasting Table, we're all about sustainable shopping practices like bringing along reusable shopping bags and buying in bulk for staples like rice. But, one of the most impactful, cost-effective, and often-overlooked strategies for saving money and reducing food waste during your weekly grocery run is to shop your kitchen first. Thoroughly check what is already in your kitchen to plan meals more effectively and shop less wastefully.

Few things are more exciting when you're out at the grocery store than finding a sale. Maybe you see boneless, skinless chicken breasts priced at $8.17 for two pounds, which is 20% off the normal price. That sounds great. But there's a five-pound tray for $12.85. The first one is over $4 per pound, while the second is just over $2.50.

Dishwashers are some of the most underrated appliances in the kitchen - they're always there to clean up the mess. But you do need to take care of your dishwasher so it can keep working as intended. Hard water mineral buildup and old food residue stuck in filters and corners can make your dishwasher run poorly and smell bad. There are things you can buy at the store

Revival Restaurant Group (Little Betty, Uptown Cantina, and the Family Dog) is ready to show off its shiny new interiors and menus for steakhouse Luella, which opens on Tuesday, November 25, in the former Ivy Buckhead space. Luella is billed as a "steakhouse inspired by European sensibilities," so there are slabs of premium beef and wagyu cuts, but the restaurant also offers plates of pasta and a few sushi rolls, because why not throw those in, too?

When Dani was there, Costco's setup had just three basic options in their pump dispensers. Worse, it didn't look very sanitary - there was a lot of sauce splatter around the station. What started as a single hot dog cart turned into Costco's iconic food court, and even if that $1.50 hot dog was a steal, the condiment bar didn't make it appetizing. Additionally, the pumps also mean there'd be a line while people are dressing their food, which can be a nightmare scenario of held-up lines on weekends or busy hours.

Chef Ron Sonderman's gift lies in elevating the comforting into the sublime. That's what he did with slow-smoked meats as the pitmaster at critically acclaimed Federalist Pig in Adams Morgan and with fried chicken at Honeymoon Chicken in Petworth. Now he's aiming to make his mark on Capitol Hill by tackling two other classics, fried wings and rotisserie chicken. On Dec. 6, Sonderman willtake to the patio of forthcoming Little Engine on Seventh Street SE, across from Eastern Market.

As a born-and-bred Southerner from the Mississippi Delta, where I spent childhood surrounded by cornfields, flooded rice paddies, and canopied pecan orchards, food was always central to the concepts of community, connection, and abundance. When shelling huge sacks of black-eyed peas or shucking corn on the front porch, it's a given that the bounty will nestle beside something fried by suppertime - preferably piled-high platters of crispy fried chicken. It's the unofficial multi-state symbol of Deep South cuisine, at least in my book.

On December 4, Milk Bar is teaming up with McCormick to give away free Eggnog English Toffee Cookies at two Manhattan locations, in honor of National Cookie Day. The first 100 customers at Milk Bar's flagship (Broadway and 29th Street) and its West Village shop (74 Christopher Street) will each score one of the limited-edition treats. Doors open at 10am in Nomad and 11am in the West Village.

I combined way too many foods that should've never met, and now it's your turn to make sense of the chaos. First up is a food fusion quiz! You'll get 10 images of completely made-up hybrid dishes that I created, and your job is to guess which two foods were combined to create each one. (For example, if you saw a slice of pie stuffed into an ice cream cone, the answer would be: Pie + Ice Cream).