The world has lost another kitchen talent this year. Aaron Grissom, who competed on season 12 of Top Chef, died in a traffic accident in Washington state. His cause of death was listed as multiple blunt force injuries. He was just 34 years old.
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It looks like national soda brand Mountain Dew will be debuting a new flavor in early 2021 that has soda fans everywhere excited. In promotional materials leaked on the Reddit message board r/MountainDew, the company seems to be gearing up to release an all new flavor named Major Melon.
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Fall and winter are always good for some tasty seasonal treats and regardless of what the calendar actually says, that favorite time of year has officially arrived in the world of food. Eggo recently launched their new Pumpkin Pie Pancakes and Gingerbread Cookie Pancakes.
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Throughout the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci has taken a firm line against the idea of eating in restaurants or hanging out in bars or coffee shops. The CDC says there are now signs that eating out could be linked to an increased risk of catching Covid-19.
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Whole Foods responded to employee complaints about the risks they were forced to take during the height of the pandemic, upping employees' pay rates by $2 dollars an hour and relaxing its attendance policy to ensure that workers could take time off. Now, Whole Foods is changing its policies again.
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A Super Bowl ad helped launch a new Pringles flavor called Pickle Rick. The Rick and Morty-inspired flavor was a huge success — 'literally out of this world,' as a marketing director for Pringles put it. So naturally, Pringles is releasing two new flavors on the bizarre Rick and Morty spectrum
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Families have given up so much this year already. Youth sports leagues shut down (via Today). The Class of 2020 missed out on its graduation ceremonies (via ABC News). And the Halloween ritual of going door-to-door for candy seems especially risky in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On Tuesday, September 8, 7-Eleven played a cruel trick on its customers and social media followers by creating a fictional snack: the Oreo taquito cannoli. They even created a mock-up of the sweet snack and shared it on the social platform where they created a stir.
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Wholesale, members-only grocery chain Costco is known for super low prices and their high quality, in house Kirkland Signature label. Recently, the brand has debuted an all-new cookie that has fans of the bulk-buy company excited.
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While we're hoping that people are washing their hands more carefully and more frequently since the pandemic started, we still can't be too sure that that is the case. Here's a novel way some grocery stores are protecting themselves from COVID-19.
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If you live in Fayetteville, North Carolina and you happen to look up at the sky, you might catch a glimpse of Walmart's latest innovation — a drone delivery service which, earlier this week, began flying the delivery skies to drop off selected grocery and household items.
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Pillsbury just dropped a new product, and it's the perfect way to make sure your mornings are appropriately pink-filled. The newest must-buy item are boxes of Mean Girls Toaster Strudel, and they're incredibly "fetch." Pink icing aside, the pastry company pulled some deep cuts from the 2004 movie.
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Chick-fil-A is not wasting any time closing the door on summer. Out with the old and in with the new, as they say. A Little Rock, Arkansas-based Chick-fil-A posted to social media earlier today that they were selling the remainder of their summer drinks until supplies ran out.
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If you're an Arby's fan, you know that the chain lives up to its promise that they "have the best meats." But what if we told you Arby's is testing a scheme allows them to sell their famed fillings sans sandwich? In nine Atlanta locations, the restaurant chain has been selling three of its meats.
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What seagulls really like to chow down upon is other people's food, as many seaside (and parking lot) picnickers have found out to their dismay. If this has ever happened to you, you'll be glad to know that scientific research has finally come up with a way to save your snack from a seagull attack.
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You were hoping nothing else bad would happen this year. Then your local grocery store set up its Halloween candy display, and you noticed something was missing: Halloween-themed Peeps. The culprit, of course, is COVID-19. The pandemic that canceled school and sports isn't done with us yet.
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The pandemic has meant many things to restaurants around the country. To smaller shops, it's meant business has had to wind down and close, with Yelp saying that as many as 60 percent of establishments that shut their doors at the start of the pandemic won't be reopening.
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To make cooking a little easier, Chick-fil-A has been offering its fans take-home meal kits for several months. What comes in them, and how do people like them?
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A life-size statute of T. rex has startled drivers and fascinated dinosaur-obsessed children since it went up. Now, after ruling this corner of Tuscon for more than a quarter-century, the T. rex is facing possible extinction -- not from a meteor, but from people who believe he never existed.
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The late, great Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold once called Dominique Ansel's cronut "the Frankenstinian love child of a croissant and a doughnut, whose limited daily run inspires endless early morning queues." Thanks to the pandemic, LA is losing its Ansel restaurant.
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As things are getting back to, well, somewhat more normal(ish) as the COVID-19 virus seems to have slowed its spread, why is Walmart announcing that it is keeping one of the changes it made regarding its hours of operation?
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For people with a serious sweet tooth, it's not always feasible to wait until after dinner for something sugary, and luckily there's a brand new addition coming to the most socially acceptable way to have dessert for breakfast: sugary cereal.
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If Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP' is your new favorite empowerment anthem, then you'll want to get in on the Starbucks' WAP latte action.
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Are you ready for the Christmas season yet? Yes, ok, we're barely past Labor Day, but in a year when pumpkin spice season begins in August, you have to know that Christmas in September is going to be a thing. Now, rumors are leaking of a new Mountain Dew seasonal flavor — this one they call Snap'd.
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The most iconic Christmas candy of all — probably the most iconic of Christmas foods, if you discount plum pudding and sugarplums — has to be candy canes, but their iconic status doesn't save them from tinkering. Every year we have new flavors, and they just seem to get weirder and weirder.
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Fall is just around the corner, and even pumpkin spice latte season has arrived at Starbucks. But thanks to the latest addition to the bakery at Costco, you'll have another cozy and comforting flavor to savor over your morning cup of joe.
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Mitch Orr is a celebrity chef in Sydney, Australia where he is known as the "Prince of Pasta" for his work at his former restaurant Acme. One of his signature dishes there was Macaroni, Pig's Head, Egg Yolk. Gordon Ramsay recently plated something similar, and caused a bit of a stir in doing so.
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