Derek Thomas

In a typically outrageous Japanese promotional campaign, Burger King Japan is offering a Godzilla-sized, seven-patty Whopper for seven days only to celebrate the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. While you won't find the Windows 7 Whopper on the menu here in America, you may just be able to......

Ramen from Sendai-based chain Chibaki-ya was the soup du jour at Mitsuwa's autumn food fair in Torrance over the weekend. The festivities coincided with the stateside debut of Chibaki-ya's "cup noodle," a just-add-water version of their popular ramen bowl. Also served on scene: Osaka-style okonomiyaki (with bacon!), chestnut and green-tea......

FOX broke out the booze and the bacon to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween specials at Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar on Sunday night. The tricks? Twisted Twister games, Lucha Libre mask making, custom-screened T-shirts, and a caged-kid-as-bowling-ball parental travesty (don't ask). The treats?......

How many Burger King double cheeseburgers can you get for $20? Twenty! Starting today at all BK lounges nationwide, the quarter-pound double cheeseburger -- formerly priced at $1.49 -- is an even one buck. We'll take 20 to go......

G4TV's demolition duo Paul and Craig Pumphrey smashed to bits a vacant fast food restaurant Thursday, the old Kentucky Fried Chicken on Centinela Avenue and Washington Place in Culver City. The professional obliterators are in town to tape the second season of their crash-and-crush television series Human Wrecking Balls, wherein......

Sure, it's fun to make giant-sized versions of food, like twenty-pound hamburgers and torso-esque burritos. But how about a giant pupusa? "When you cook it, you have to turn it," says Liborio Market's CEO Enrique J. Alejo. "Fry it on one side, then turn it and fry on the other......

Just how different can taquitos really be? Turns out there's a lot more going on with these Mexican delicacies than their "tiny taco" name would suggest. So how do three Olvera Street favorites stack up?......

After stints in the kitchens of Alain Ducasse, Rocco Despirito, David Bouley and Ferran Adria, the jocular Eric Greenspan made a quick leap from sous chef to executive chef at Joachim Splichal's Patina, then opened a place of his own, The Foundry on Melrose, two years ago at age 32......