Food & drink

Food & drink

"Pizza Pockets'' instead of Michelin-star-worthy fois gras - after a judge held her on bail for her latest alleged food filching. The 34-year-old wannabe influencer, who has been repeatedly busted in recent weeks for allegedly scamming top restaurants out of free meals, is being held on $4,500 cash bail in the women's quarters at the city's notorious jail by Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Jung Park after she was arrested for at least the ninth time Friday.

They've been to the Michelin-starred restaurant. They're on first-name basis with the city's top chefs. They know about the cool underground spots seemingly before they've even opened. What then, could you possibly buy the on-the-pulse food fanatic that they haven't already thought of themself?

Located on the topmost floor of the French brand's Rodeo Drive flagship, Monsieur Dior offers enough pomp and circumstance to satisfy 90210 locals and visitors, plus the level of technical precision and plating befitting of the person behind San Francisco's three-Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn. Expect to spend well over $150 per person for a sit-down meal with three courses, plus a complimentary amuse-bouche, bread service, and mignardises.

Panes con Pavo is an opened-face sandwich that typically features slow-cooked turkey on a breadroll with a combination of tomato, cucumber, radish and curtido a type of vinegar slaw often seen atop pupusas. Everytime I eat it I'm transported to those large family-and-friends holiday gatherings and, as Thanksgiving quickly approaches, I often find myself longing for those flavors. Xinia's Bakery, tucked into the Plaza Sobrante along San Pablo Dam Road in El Sobrante, has always been my go-to spot to satisfy those cravings.

In the case of Texas A&M - specifically, its athletic department - that means a partnership with Unreined Whiskey, a relatively new entry to the spirits world, but also one with Texas roots.More specifically, it's a whiskey company with a deep connection to Texas A&M itself. As Ralph Green of the Houston Chronicle reports, the company's seven founders are all university alumni. The partnership will involve Unreined's bourbon being made widely available at the Aggies' stadium, Kyle Field, along with sales of the whiskey at other Texas A&M athletic events.

Save the date for the 6th Annual Pho for the People event at Monster Pho! This will be a fantastic community event with free pho and lots of connecting with the community. Seiji Oda will be performing, so come for the pho and stay for the music! This is also a community toy drive, so remember to bring a new toy to donate. Pho will be available from 10am until 3pm, or until they run out.

Made fresh daily with a formula for a perfect milkshake that includes soft, premium ice cream, real cane sugar, and cage-free eggs, Shake Shack's milkshakes are available in several different flavors year-round. However, just because the fast food chain has a set menu doesn't mean you have to stick to it. If you're bored with its standard lineup of vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, coffee, black and white, and cookies and cream, create your own fruity rendition using cookies and cream as your base.

According to the findings, Brits tuck into four party spreads over the winter holidays with 74 per cent saying they plan to host a festive dinner or lunch party. Some 36 per cent said they actually prefer small platters or a buffet-style feast to a traditional sit-down meal. Baked cheese such as camembert or a fondue topped the leaderboard, with 50 per cent of respondents saying it was among their favourite of all picky bits.

If you're in the mood for seafood, there are plenty of places you can go to eat. Seafood includes a wide scope of creatures and dishes from shrimp scampi to bacon-wrapped scallops to calamari, but what if you're in the mood for a specific seafood dish: fried fish? Ah, well, options are more limited, and good-tasting ones are even more difficult to find.

The plant-based meat brand Beyond landed in last place in our ranking of breakfast sausages, which might not come as a surprise to meat eaters. But Beyond has managed to create fake meat that tastes surprisingly like the real thing; we certainly thought their newest stack burgers could pass for beef. Unfortunately, Beyond's breakfast sausage patties miss the mark entirely, especially with texture and juiciness.

Next month central London will get a new five-storey food hall. Added to the city's already-formidable street food scene will be Market Place Leicester Square, which has billed itself as one of the 'largest and most ambitious food hall experiences the UK has ever seen'. The new food hall, which will sit right next to Leicester Square's Odeon, will offer more than a dozen vendors. It'll be the fifth Market Place venue in London, following openings at St Paul's, Vauxhall, Harrow and Peckham.

Pizza might sound simple as a concept, but it's a complicated beast in the kitchen and hitting all these notes is surprisingly rare, especially in the chain restaurant world. While pizza quality is inherently subjective, when it comes to pepperoni pies, there are some universal truths we can all agree on. The perfect pepperoni pizza has evenly distributed pepperoni rounds, sliced thin with a slightly crispy edge, the ideal cheese-to-sauce ratio, and a balanced crust that's light but chewy.

The original recipe for Aunt Bill's Brown Candy first appeared in 1928 in the regional newspaper The Daily Oklahoman, and became a favorite across the country almost immediately. The original version vaguely calls for "nut meats," with the understanding that pecans were the preferred nut. Our version uses a mix of walnuts and pecans to give the chewy candy a touch of depth and complexity.

After a long session at the ice-skating rink, I'm ready to refuel with my greens and cheese quiche. It's baked in a crust flecked with herbes de Provence and filled with Parmesan and Gruyère cheeses, baby spinach, and luscious sweet onions. I serve it all winter long, in big wedges for friends at my skating club or in elegant slices for holiday brunches at home.

According to Costco's menu board, the smoothie has no added sugar, contains an impressive six servings of fruit, and boasts just 230 calories, all for the low price of $2.99. We did a deep dive into what's in a Costco food court fruit smoothie and found that frozen fruit like strawberries, aç, and blackberries are the main characters that give it that lovely, deep maroon hue.

Peas actually do have a lot going for them. They really do, I promise. They're rich in essential nutrients, support healthy digestion thanks to their natural fiber content, and are a great source of plant-based protein. Thanks to canned peas, you can also enjoy them all year-round-not just in their peak season during spring and summer. The challenge is simply to find the right canned pea brands. The wrong ones are sure to deepen the pea hatred even more.

A group of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark offered "...an outlook on potential ways in which what we eat, where we eat, and how we eat might positively support creative thinking, with applications in the workplace and home. [They presented] the view that, by offering a rich multisensory experience, eating nourishes not only our bodies but our mental well-being." They went on to state that, "If creativity is based on the process of discovering heretofore unknown links between different areas/sensory attributes, then consuming food that offers more sensorial experiences should give more opportunities for inspiration."

Coca-Cola was the invention of Dr. John S. Pemberton of Atlanta, who had a particular interest creating his own medicines, often combining them with flavorful drinks. Faced with the introduction of prohibition in the state, and battling his own morphine addiction, he created a tonic containing coca leaf and kola nuts that would revitalize and stimulate without the need for alcohol. Pemberton released the first iteration of Coca-Cola in 1886 as a syrup to be mixed manually at soda fountains.

Priced at $5 to $7 a can, some are fruit-flavored seltzers while others mimic cocktails. "This one is the Mary Jane Mule," says Nathan Wilkinson, as he puts a can in his shopping basket. "So that's kind of clever, but it's a Moscow mule. It tastes like ginger beer, you can have it with a little bit of lime and put it on ice."

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.

We are deeply saddened to share news of Skye Gyngell's passing on 22 November in London, surrounded by her family and loved ones. Skye was a culinary visionary who influenced generations of chefs and growers globally to think about food and its connection to the land. She leaves behind a remarkable legacy and is an inspiration to us all. The family requests privacy at this time.

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.

The chocolate ganache has a smooth, fudge-like texture, and the vanilla pudding ice cream is perfectly creamy. All in all, the ice cream brings the same joy as the dirt cakes made in times past, a sentiment shared by fans of the ice cream. Some naysayers liken the flavor to an overrated version of cookies and cream ice cream, but the 4.6-star rating speaks for itself - hardly anyone wants to see Dirt Cake in the Ben & Jerry's flavor graveyard.

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.