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It's not just a hot sauce: It's a tattoo, a beer cozy, a Valentine, and more. We've got visual evidence that the Rooster sauce is taking over America
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It's not just a hot sauce: It's a tattoo, a beer cozy, a Valentine, and more. We've got visual evidence that the Rooster sauce is taking over America
Now that we've all gotten used to saying "Sriracha," what does the word itself actually mean?
Sam Dean
Why did we give our favorite citrus a name that rhymes with almost nothing? A look at the fruit's juicy linguistic origins
Sam Dean
From the towering feasts of Versailles to the natural foodscapes of Noma, a historical look at how we serve fancy food
Michael Y. Park
What were "cates" and who brought them into the house? A look at the origins of a very familiar term
Sam Dean
Popcorn was just the start: A history of movie-theater snacks, from the red-licorice war of the 1920s to "When Harry Met Salad"
Rachel Friedman
The term of endearment (and, okay, the sweetener) has a history that stretches back to the dawn of human civilization
Sam Dean
We like novels. We like food. And book publishers, aware of our appetites, are pushing this new genre. Alexander Chee devours 7 of the tastiest
Alexander Chee
Sub, hoagie, hero, grinder, spuckie, po' boy, wedge: here's why you call the footlong (or longer) sandwich whatever you do
Sam Dean
What do baths and brothels have to do with what we cook in a pot? More than you'd ever suspect
Sam Dean
How such a silly word became standard English for the slurpable starch
Sam Dean
Get ready for New Year's by learning how to say "hangover" in everything from French and German to Vietnamese and Finnish
Sam Dean
Tolkien's halflings love mid-century British comfort food. Don't scoff! Those mince pies and seed cakes can be tasty for humans, too
Bon Appétit
The delicious dessert's name has its roots in a familiar black bird
Sam Dean
How a typo and a train got mixed up with our favorite sauce
Sam Dean
A pictorial history of the presidential turkey pardon, from Truman to Obama
Bon Appétit
From Tex-Mex hexaflexagons to Busby Berkeley watermelons
Sam Dean
The Belle of Amherst's cookie recipe (plus bonus poem on distance and loss)
Sam Dean
How the coconut came to be named after a Spanish (and Portugese) Halloween terror
Sam Dean
This week's Eat Your Words looks at a fall favorite: cider
Sam Dean
The website Handwritten Recipes collects old recipes found in used books, and occasionally even tests them out
Sam Dean
One of the leading explanations for one the spookiest events in American history
Sam Dean