The Simple Pleasures of the New Grilled Chimichurri Salmon Dishes from Rubio’s

May 22, 2013 // 1:11 pm

Working at a food blog, you come to understand what will and won’t do well on your site. You actively seek out the ostentatious, the bizarre, the HOLY SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS, BATMAN. Little by little, your writing becomes less about celebrating food and more about gawking at it (which is,…

College Student Runs Dumpster Diving Cafe with ‘Recycled’ Food

March 31, 2013 // 6:00 am

Tufts University student Maximus Thaler has taken frugality to a whole new level by opening up a “freegan” cafe in his apartment that operates on donations and exchanged services rather than price tags. The twist? All food served in the cafe is pulled directly from the trash.

Thaler and…

McDonald’s Serving Sustainable Fish Now, Still Not Serving Sustainable Beef

January 25, 2013 // 4:40 pm

McDonald’s USA gets an environmental pat on the back this week for making a move towards sustainability and serving Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified sustainable fish at all of their U.S. eateries.

New York Artist Turns Doomsday Prepper by Serving Gourmet Rats for $100 a Pop

July 27, 2012 // 12:44 pm

It’s almost August now, which means we’re about 2/3 of the way through the year or 2/3 of the way closer to the zombie apocalypse, so it might be a good idea for us to all to step back, take a breather and cut a page from the book…