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Hey Girl, You Smell Amazing Like Roast Beef
A Brooklyn scent shop has some food perfumes among their wide selection, but the roast beef isn't exactly flying off the shelves.

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The Transience of the McRib, Explained By Hard Economics
The Awl has a conspiracy theory that might explain why the elusive sandwich appears in American stores (and bellies) when it does.
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The New York Times Asks If Cookbooks Are Being Replaced By Apps
To which we would mutter something about glass houses, but we're too busy working on our forthcoming Tablet app

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Top 10 Least Healthy Thanksgiving Dishes
Think twice before digging into that gooey gratin—these are the most unhealthy Thanksgiving dishes.

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Roadkill Roundup
A look at the different ways we eat animals that meet their untimely ends at the side of the road.

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Let Drinkify Suggest the Perfect* Cocktail for Your Music
*Cocktail may not actually be perfect. But it's still a pretty great site to play around with!

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The Simpsons Will Have a "Foodie" Episode, Silly Raps and All
And Grub Street has an interview with the show's executive producer--check it out!

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The Canon of Food Puns
The brilliant minds at the Hairpin have done all the work for us. Now just to bask/groan in its glory.

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Caffeinated Beef Jerky and "Zapplesauce" in Experimental MREs
The Washington Post took a look at the Army's Natick, MA combat food lab, and found some interesting projects in the works.

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Things We Love
The artist is painting a limited-edition collection for the BA-favorite tableware company.

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Talking Oysters with Erin Byers Murray, Author of Shucked
Imagine quitting your desk job to work on an oyster farm, then writing a book about it.

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Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes (If the Food Coma Just Isn't Worth It)
Don't want to derail your healthy habits on Turkey Day? Here are some tips and healthy Thanksgiving recipes.

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Top 10 Best Chefs to Follow on Twitter
...who aren't the huge television celebrity chefs you hear about every day

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Junk Food Makeover
We challenged nutritionist Tricia Williams to revamp this classic after-school snack as a wholesome treat

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Taking Aquaponic Aquaculture to the Inner City
Read about a project in Youngstown, OH to grow tilapia in a vacant garage.

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Should Horse Meat Be Illegal?
It's been banned in the U.S. for five years now, with mixed results (and mixed implications).

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So, Rene Redzepi and the Princess of Denmark Walk into a School's Rooftop Greenhouse Filled with Kids...
I mean, you know how this one goes!

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Coors Light Silver Bullet Train Actually Chugging Into NYC
And oh, how the Coors Light decor will shine.

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Lasers Can Make Sure Your Food Is Fresh, May Have Inspired Swedish Scientist Romance
We're basing that second part on very little evidence, but one can dream.

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British Government Hopes Vampires Can Convince People Synthetic Meat and Blood Aren't Creepy
Finally, a solid argument for using synthetic blood and meat in our daily lives: "Vampires on TV do it"

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10 iPad and iPhone Apps that Will Make You a Better Cook
These apps are to the home cook as the utility belt is to Batman: They'll take you from zero to hero in the kitchen
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Farmers Turn to Inmates When Immigrants Are Turned Away
Because even with our astronomical unemployment, most Americans have no interest in doing the job.

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Post-Holiday Detox Recipes
Eat well the other 29 days of November with these healthy recipes.
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Test Your Knowledge of Fromage with Cheese or Font
A simple game probably proves that you know nothing about cheese and that most cheeses have goofy names.

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Dinner Theater Is Not Dead! The Kin Mixes Music, Food in Non-Lame Way
It's just been taken over by Australians.

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Peanut Allergy Cure In The Works
Researchers at Northwestern University may have figured out how to turn off potentially deadly food allergies.

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Young Farmers Shoot for Sustainable Rice Paddies in Vermont's Green Mountains
Check out this Epicurious interview with the people who are trying to make rice a staple crop for the chilly Northeast.

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Making Unfamiliar Treats from Classic Children's Books
Two intrepid Hairpinners try to make Turkish Delight and Raspberry Cordial, with mixed results.

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Only Four Days 'til Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino Unveils His "Couture" Lollipop
We promise, it's as baffling as it sounds.

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Ice Cream Activism! Ben & Jerry's Publicly Supports Occupy Wall Street
The affable ice cream company laid down some real talk on their website over the weekend expressing their support for the Occupy movements sweeping the country.
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The Hidden Art of Making Food Look Good on TV
The New York Times takes a look at "tabletop directors" and the complicated business of filming food.


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The Marijuana-Infused "Open Secrets" of California Wine Country
Check out Gourmet Live's great piece on the crossover between medical marijuana and American food and wine.

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New Trend in School Lunches Has Nothing to Do with Food
An apple, a juicebox, and a PB+J in a Ziploc is no longer enough--inspirational notes are becoming standard for some school lunches.

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E-Julia
And the NY Times has a good piece on how hard it was to wrangle that big 'ol book into a digi-friendly format.

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Junk Food Makeover
We challenged nutritionist Tricia Williams to healthy-up the king of packaged cupcakes
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Sesame Street's New Muppet Takes On Child Hunger
Lily (the new muppet) is introduced in a special called "Growing Hope Against Hunger."

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Ig Nobel Food Research
The annual awards have been announced, and both Biology and Chemistry went to food-related studies!

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Meet Your Matcha
Since it's jam-packed with antioxidants, here are more ways to sneak it into your diet

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We'd Like to Call Your Attention to
The sexy chicken finds its voice, cruelly rejects our Editor in Chief

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Domino's Founder Opens Military-Themed Burger Joint with Camo-Wearing Delivery Guys
It's called "Gyrene Burger," and boy does it sound like a bad idea.

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New Chef's Feed iPhone App Lets the Pros Do the Yelping
Big-name chefs can help you pick your next meal! It's like you're their friends, except only in a sad digital way.

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The New York Times Gets Sexy with Raw Chicken
A certain featherless bird gets its big break in nude modeling (NSFW if your boss already thinks you're a perv)

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Nicki Minaj Has a Pink Fried Chicken Necklace and You Can Too
We don't think that it's edible, but if you buy one, let us know for sure.

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Scientists Discover That Our Nose Knows What's Good For Us Before Our Brains Do
The idea that our noses are organized by what's the most pleasurable is at odds with what we know about most other sensory organs, and is a "tornado" sweeping through the smell-research world.

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Cooking with Nostradamus!
And yea, it is written in the stars that your candied orange peels will be excellently tasty

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Science Says Food Can Impact Our Genes
And we're not talking waist size! Ha! Because genes and jeans sound the same. For real, though, researchers have found that we incorporate food RNA into our own.

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Healthier Versions of Your Favorite Junk Foods (That Aren't Disgusting! Promise)
Love Doritos? How about Twizzlers? Here are healthier versions that taste just as good

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Junk Food Makeover
We challenged nutritionist Tricia Williams to re-invent the nacho cheesiest of chips as a wholesome treat

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The Ketchup Packet Is Dead; Long Live the Ketchup Packet
Heinz introduces a "Dip and Squeeze" heir apparent to the little ketchup packet throne.

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Obama's Beer
The White House makes its own beer, and the President shared some with Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer last week.

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Wylie Dufresne Will Braise Pork Ribs in Root Beer This Weekend, You Might Want to Eat Them
The chef chats with us about music, food, and his dad's soon-to-open sandwich shop

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The Nation's New Food Issue Is Food Politics Nerd Porn
The issue's mostly online, and it's chock full of essays and news from food celebrities and the vanguard of food progress.

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Recipe Start-up Gojee Gets $1.2 Million to Tweak Its Recs
If Groupon's thinking it can rake in $20 billion in an IPO, this site's pretty pictures are worth a mil+change.

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Pig-N-Ford Races
They race on a Model T while holding a pig. We know this doesn't really have anything to do with anything, but come on. Just watch them swap pigs, for us.

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Food as Medicine
From clearing up your face to battling serious illness, this chef-turned-healer has an answer--and it's edible

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Redesigning the Receipt
A London design firm has cooked up some interesting new takes on that point of sale staple.

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Nation May Have Little to Show for Billions Spent on Food Anti-Terror Efforts
The AP has found at least $3.4 billion spent on food anti-terror initiative as the seemingly ineffective programs are up for review at a Senate subcommittee hearing today.
