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Top Chef Canada Coming Soon

If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement......
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The True Identity of Haggis & Other Questions

Do you know what haggis is? According to a report in Reuters, 18% of Britons do not. That might not seem surprising at first -- identifying a grey mass of oatmeal, suet and offal is inherently difficult -- until you realize that it's not just that they can't identify the......
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A Brief History of North America, in Coca-Cola Ads

It's an anniversary of sorts for Coca-Cola. 25 years ago today the soft drink giant launched New Coke, a product that the company hoped would help them win the Cola Wars. It was an unmitigated disaster. People hated it, and quickly began hoarding cases of the original Coke. They staged......
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Airplane Happy Meals: Cocaine Hidden in In-Flight Food

Airplane food has always needed a little something to make it edible, even when it was free. Your average person might pack a sandwich and maybe drink a few more of those tiny bottles of gin to make it all palatable. Now Dutch police have detained 20 people for smuggling......
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2010 IACP Award Winners Announced

The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- which comes up first on a Google search, proving maybe that cops can SEO better than writers -- has announced their 2010 cookbook award winners. The honors took place......
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Green Beans: Happy National Jelly Bean Day

Sure, it's Earth Day. We know. Go watch An Inconvenient Truth for the zillionth time, then turn off the lights and eat something unbearably good for you by candlelight. And then start in on the jelly beans. Because not only is today Earth Day, but it's also National Jelly Bean......
Alice Waters; Credit: Chez Panisse

Alice's TV Show? Alice Waters Considers Television

The Next Food Network Star: Alice Waters? Probably not. But according to the AP, the Chez Panisse founder and champion of edible gardening is considering the Kindness of Televisions. Waters says that she's in the early stages of talks about doing her own television program, ideally on PBS. "Some of......
Koa Duncan at Nickel Diner; Credit: A. Scattergood

Chef Update: Nickel Diner Gets a New Pastry Chef

Nickel Diner is not your ordinary diner, with dishes of pulled pork and quinoa and pozole sharing a menu with egg scrambles and the kind of donuts that often seem more like the Platonic ideal of a donut rather than the sort normally found on diner counters, next to cups......