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Sam Dean

Sam Dean is a former staff writer for BonAppetit.com. He lives in Brooklyn.

Cooking

Hash Brown Waffles

Grated potatoes plus a waffle iron is a great idea. Scratch that: It's an absolutely brilliant idea.
Cooking

The History of the Word Chickpea

Chickpeas have nothing to do with chickens
Culture

"Fifty Shades of Chicken"

Food porn and badly-written fan-fic porn, together at last
Restaurants

Should Lunch Breaks Be Mandatory?

One guy is proposing that whopping 90-minute lunch breaks be enforced on the job, for everyone's benefit
Lifestyle

Colorado Man Wins $7 Million in "Microwave Popcorn Lung" Case

This guy got a respiratory disease from eating too much popcorn. More like Orville KILLYOUBACHER, amirite?
Culture

How Booze Built America (on the Discovery Channel)

Mike Rowe (from 'Dirty Jobs') has a new show that traces our nation's potable past
Culture

Watch Nick Offerman's Slam Poem to Bacon (with Bongos)

The bacon, and me. The bacon, in I.
Lifestyle

Getting Kids Hooked on Snack Food with Smartphone Games

Advertising to kids with video games isn't exactly new, but the WSJ finds it's working far better than it ever has before
Culture

The Popinator

This little guy takes half the human error out of tossing popcorn into someone's mouth. Progress!
Lifestyle

Sustainable Fish Hit the Plate in Maine

A Maine program promotes a different, underused fish every month
Lifestyle

Eating Badly Might Lead to Alzheimer's

A raft of new scientific research has linked dementia with insulin resistance, the condition that often leads to Type 2 diabetes, and is heavily linked to what you eat
Culture

Watch Harrison Ford Tell a Joke About Broccoli

The actor shows how joke-telling is done on Late Night with David Letterman
Culture

Is Bon Appetit "Classy" Enough for Grey Poupon?

We see how the mustard's Facebook app judges our interns
Culture

What Actor Michael Kenneth Williams Eats for Breakfast

The actor talked to us about his morning routine
Cooking

The History of Apples

Which, until fairly recently, meant any kind of fruit. For real
Lifestyle

Bloomberg Soda Ban Approved By Health Board

Theory: He's in the pocket of the seltzer lobby!
Lifestyle

Nip-Napped! Airport Workers Stole 100,000 Mini Liquor Bottles

Authorities say that airplane cocktail service will continue uninterrupted, thank God
Culture

You Can See the M*A*S*H TV Show Still at the Smithsonian Museum

The show's prop moonshine still is in the Smithsonian