Month: July 2014

“Keep drinking, and drink more and keep drinking. So, don’t stop drinking.”

That’s Jose Andres’ response to the question of how to cure the incurable hangover. Right before that, he suggests that “if you keep drunk all of the time you will feel in a …

Recall childhood moments in the kitchen with a parent or grandparent – and the joy of sweet or unexpected flavors along with the beauty of organized chaos? Flour everywhere! Bowls of batter to lick clean. And the payoff: brownies or cookies, a hear…

Yelp unveiled a new tool last week that lets you search how often certain buzz words appear in reviews over the span of several years in different cities. The snapshots give insight into important questions like: Is the doughnut really the new cupcake? Is D.C. a gin or a whiskey town? And is terrible service on the rise? Y&H played around […]

Whatever happened to milk chocolate? In recent years, everybody seems to be siding with dark chocolate, leaving milk out in the cold. Everywhere you look, people are singing dark chocolate’s praises, from its potential to prevent heart attacks and strokes to its mood-boosting properties to its beauty benefits.

Milk chocolate, which contains milk powder or condensed milk, is actually a relatively recent invention in the long history of chocolate. In 1867, Swiss chemist Henri Nestlé developed powdered milk, and 12 years later Swiss chocolate manufacturer Daniel Peter combined it with chocolate liquor. Milk chocolate was born and the chocolate industry and Valentine’s Day hasn’t been the same since.

We admit, many of us here at HuffPost Taste prefer dark chocolate to milk. We are, however, also fans of milk, and since today is National Milk Chocolate Day, we feel it’s only fair to give milk chocolate its due.

Here are 11 reasons milk chocolate might just be better than dark chocolate.

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Between writing about food all day and eating out way too much, we here at HuffPost Taste have just about had it with misspelled food words. Sure, everyone spells words incorrectly here and there and we can be as guilty as the next guy. But when it com…

Let’s talk about donuts today, guys.

Donuts, which have been making our mornings better for decades upon decades. Donuts, which delight and entice us with glazes, frostings, cream fillings and sprinkles. Donuts, which put all other breakfast pastries…