Month: July 2014

Everyone knows that buying a bottle of wine for under $10 can sometimes feel like a gamble. Sure, it doesn’t hurt the wallet, but it can offend your taste buds — and do a number on your head. But now we have the much-beloved Jamie Oliver to thank for …

Tacos are one of those foods that will never be boring. From Baja fish tacos to crispy carnita tacos, there so many ways to make and eat a taco that we could chow down on a different variation every day of the week and never get tired of it. Still, eve…

We hate to be the ones to tell you this, but if you’ve never had an heirloom tomato then you’ve never tasted a real tomato. With tomato season just upon us — and dreams of yellow, red, pink and purple slices on our plates — we began to wonder what it…

Outside Sinbad, women in hijabs, or headscarves, chatter in Arabic over glasses of hot chai. Listening in, I pick out the phrase inshallah—literally, “God willing,” but functionally, “maybe” or “tomorrow,” or, if it’s work-related, “don’t count on it.” Their accent is heavy, distinctly Mesopotamian, and for a second, I’m back in Iraq. Sinbad is one […]

Someone made a fantastic-looking cake with the outer dressed nicely in a Argentina flag. Whoever made it decided to fill the inside with the colors of the German flag. So, it’s unclear what fan this cake was made for, but it sure looks delicious!

The world’s cruellest cake. #GER #ARG pic.twitter.com/mW5xCaIxcq

— NextBet.co.uk (@NextBetTips) July 15, 2014

(H/T Bleacher Report)

By Anjali Athavaley NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) – A proposal to overhaul nutrition labels on packaged foods sold in the United States does not go far enough to influence consumer choices and reduce obesity, a former U.S. Food and Drug…