Malcolm Bedell

Taco Bell has never been a stranger to remixing existing ideas and ingredients into new product offerings. It's the natural consequence of having only five basic fillings to work with; sometimes, you've gotta get inventive. The latest launch, however, marks the first time that Taco Bell has cross-pollinated across both......

Unless your idea of fine dining includes eating a room-temperature slab of grey beef from a warming tray at a highway rest stop while sitting in the stuffy sleeping compartment of your semi, the cold sweat prickling your skin as you pray to come down smoothly from the benzadrine you've......

It's no secret that Taco Bell is the industry leader when it comes to fast food innovation. The chain's Doritos Locos line, a natural coupling (and teenager's fever dream) that finally paired "Doritos" and "tacos" in eternal matrimony, have been an unqualified hit for the chain, generating over a billion dollars in......

Until 2012, the Indian bhut jolokia (or ghost chile) was the hottest pepper in the world. With about 300 times as much heat as the humble jalapeño, the pepper grows naturally in the town of Tezpur, in Northeastern India. It's not widely used as a flavoring agent for food in......

When it comes to encouraging rabid fast food fetishism, the humble Del Taco chain very often fails to get the respect it deserves. It's hard to imagine why; when it comes to the world of dirt-cheap Mexican food that you can order by the sack without ever leaving your car,......

The menu at Subway has historically been designed to serve two groups of people: those who believe that good sandwiches are defined not by flavor, but by "customized" arrangements of flavorless meat and cheese, differentiated only by texture and temperature, and those who further believe that physical fitness can be achieved through......

According to a March 4 blog post by Emily Atkin at Climate Change, Chipotle is publicly warning its millionaire investors (not to mention the rest of us normal folks) of the real consequences of global warming. What's the threat? A potential avocado shortage that could force the fast food chain......

After quietly dropping them from the menu a few months ago in the face of low sales and mostly lukewarm reviews, Mighty Wings have reappeared on drive-through menu boards nationwide. Why the sudden reappearance of America's "meh"-iest chicken wings? With the launch of Mighty Wings, McDonald's was swinging wildly for......

In 1962, Cincinnati, Ohio-based McDonald's franchisee Lou Groen had a problem. His local clientele was close to 90% Roman Catholic, which was causing his restaurant to founder mightily on Fridays and during Lent, the 40-day period leading up to Easter during which Roman Catholics abstain from eating meat. In those......

Taco Bell's army of food scientists may be the most creative minds currently at work in the back rooms and laboratories of the fast food industry. Following the staggering, game-changing success of its Doritos Locos line of tacos, Taco Bell hopes to raise its status as an innovator even further......