Turducken is one of those portmanteau foods whose name reflects its ingredients — the name, and the dish, combines turkey, duck, and chicken. Although it sounds like some kind of bizarre modern invention, oddball foods expert Andrew Zimmern says turducken is actually part of an ancient tradition.
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Restaurants are just starting to hang up their "Open" signs, but things are far from normal in restaurantland, where the pandemic is causing closures and job losses around the country. The latest casualty to announce it is shutting down and pulling out of several states is Rubio's Coastal Grill.
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If bacon has one flaw, it's that it's a bit insubstantial and tends to be more of an accent than a main dish. Well, this new way to cook bacon is about to change all that. If you want to know how to beef up your bacon, it turns out the secret lies in giving it the old chicken-fried steak treatment.
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You probably already know you can customize your favorite beverages with different milk alternative options that Starbucks offers — but as it turns out, one of these ingredients is not what it seems.
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If you feel like ground beef goes bad faster than other cuts of beef, well, that's because it does. Here's why.
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Do you know why lemons made it big? During the 1918 influenza pandemic that took the lives of between 20 and 50 million people worldwide, hot lemonade was touted as a miracle cure. Lemons still have plenty of benefits, so maybe you should start eating more lemons.
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These hacks make shopping at Sam's Club a no-brainer. You'll learn the ins and outs of the store so you can always find the best deals, whether that means learning to decode the price tag or using the technology at your disposal to make shopping a breeze.
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Sardinia, Italy is known for Fregula pasta, fresh lobster, roads that almost took George Clooney's life, and casu marzu, which is a contraband delicacy — and maybe the world's most dangerous cheese.
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Although there are a sizable number of people out there who recognize the name Ina Garten, there are probably even more who know her as the Barefoot Contessa. And an even smaller number of people than those who know both her real name and her stage name know what she did before.
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Doughnut fans everywhere rejoice! Popular doughnut brand Krispy Kreme plans to launch its first-ever nationally distributed retail product line on June 24th, 2020.
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While Aldi is one of our favorite supermarkets, they do have a few flaws, and one area in which they tend to be a bit under par is in their produce section. While Aldi has been taking steps to correct this issue, sadly, they've just been hit with a more serious produce-related issue.
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If you added up all the minutes we've spent picking sticky bits of papery onion skin off of our onions, our fingers, and our knives, it would likely amount to days and days worth of oniony nonsense. That all changes today though, thanks to a life-altering video.
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Half the fun of traveling is getting to try food and drinks that are way different from what we have at home. That's why everyone was pretty upset that Pepsi's new orange flavor soda was only available in Japan when it was first released in February. Luckily, it's now possible to order this drink.
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Aunt Jemima might have been part of America's collective breakfast experience for more than a century, but Quaker Oats has decided to give the brand a complete makeover. Not everyone, though, has been celebrating Aunt Jemima's impending retirement, including descendants of women who portrayed her.
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Fast food myths — we've all heard them (and maybe even believed a few). There have been fast food chains tainted by allegations that are completely without foundation, and one such accusation was the whisper campaign that linked Church's Chicken to an unsavory organization.
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Everyone has had a few vegetables that have turned brown before they could be used. While it's tempting to toss them in the trash, there are plenty of ways to use them despite their less-than-fresh appearance.
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Unfortunately, despite how easy it is, coffee happens to be one of the many things you should never nuke. When you microwave a cup of coffee, you're changing the chemical makeup of the beverage. Coffee contains more than a thousand odor compounds. These begin to deteriorate over time.
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When it comes to what not to order at Wendy's, we're not just talking about high calorie count here. We found the worst offenders on the Wendy's menu, from sketchy food preparation practices to gross revelations about the cleanliness of equipment.
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There's nothing like strong coffee in the morning, but sometimes you need a change of pace. Here are things you never thought to add to your coffee.
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In the words of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "I get by with a little help from my friends." It probably helps a lot when those friends give you millions of dollars. That was certainly the case for chef Emeril Lagasse in 2008. Lagasse got by with a little help from his friend, Martha Stewart.
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One of the biggest pitfalls when it comes to making rice is having a finished product that comes out gloppy, clumpy, and sticky when you certainly didn't intend to make sticky rice to begin with. There's one habit above all others that will result in this type of mush.
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But, Five Guys is bypassing the debate over the perfect burger temperature all together by serving every one of its hand-formed, 100 percent pure ground beef burgers well done (via Eat This Not That). Why? The answer has to do with safety and efficiency, and we can't be mad at that.
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Don't don't worry — you're not a kitchen klutz. It turns out, there's a lot of behind-the-scenes food styling that goes on when Food Network is producing a recipe, and some of the things being added to those delicious-looking dishes aren't even edible.
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While slow cookers are great for making a vast number of meals, they are not good for everything, and some ingredients require a little more TLC than what a slow cooker is really meant to provide (via Today). One ingredient that is greatly debated for slow cooker use is pasta.
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There's nothing better than having a few bags of fresh berries stashed away in the freezer because they can be used in so many versatile recipes. But, if you have ever tossed them all in a resealable bag and were disappointed to find them clumped together, that's because you froze them wrong.
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Not everything is fit for drain disposal though, and eggshells top the list. It's actually the inner membrane of the eggshell that is the enemy, not the shell itself. According to The Spruce, eggshell is a sticky catch-all for everything else that goes down your drain.
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A few years ago, the Food Network conducted an anonymous survey of professional chefs, asking them to spill the tea on all the things that happen in restaurants (that you may never have wanted to know). Flay joined Today to share his thoughts on what the survey revealed.
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