Amy Scattergood

Today's adventure in food word clouds comes courtesy of Pink's, the hot dog stand (legendary, iconic, fabulous, pick your overused yet applicable adjective) on La Brea. This is not the ordinary menu but the "super specials" menu, from which you can order hot dogs created for actual legends and icons......

It's difficult to decide what to say first about this new product, called Toastabags and created by the Dutch company Boska, a toastable sandwich bag that supposedly simplifies the process of making grilled cheese sandwiches. Because, you know, they're so hard to make already. So maybe we'll just quote @gastropoda,......

Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus San Pellegrino has just announced its list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the third consecutive year, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at No. 1. (Congratulations to Rene Redzepi, who is having......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Outside of Mexico, you'd be hard-pressed to find a restaurant serving huazontles capiados -- it's known mostly as a humble peasant's dish eaten during Lent, which might be kind of the point." Bizarra Capital: Beyond the......

There's playing with your food, and there's Playing With Your Food. A kind of brilliant example of the latter is the artwork of Ben Campbell, a Texas artist who recently constructed a mummy entirely out of McDonald's food. Campbell, who describes himself as "some guy in West Texas who makes......

Drinking stuff you shouldn't drink to get buzzed is hardly a new idea. Think bathtub gin, just for starters. Soviet-era Russians pretty much turned the practice into an art form, if you can call it that. But recent reports of teenagers drinking hand sanitizer to get high are a lot......