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Here’s Why You’ll Probably See More Celebrity-Branded Food In 2022 Najmi Arif/Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/Dec. 25, 2021 10:00 am EST Over the past few decades, celebrity endorsements of food items have become more and more prominent. Most notably, Dr. Pepper has had a great run of success with their celebrity endorsements, from Kelly Clarkson to Pitbull. And lately, McDonald’s has been seeing some pretty decent traction from their collaborations with celebrities to create specialized meals, including pop band BTS....

How People Really Feel About Trader Joe’s Chatty Cashiers, According To Reddit LMWH/Shutterstock By Taylor Huang/Dec. 22, 2021 10:18 am EST Trader Joe’s cashiers have a reputation for being extremely friendly. And that fact comes with little surprise — cashiers and “crew members” are offered excellent perks, including store discounts and the promise of high salaries through annual raises. People have even made satirical videos about the congeniality of Trader Joe’s workers....

Instagram Is In Love With Guy Fieri’s Newly Adopted French Bulldog Steve Jennings/Getty By Jen Peng/Nov. 15, 2021 7:56 pm EST Celebrity chef and Food Network star Guy Fieri may be known for his bold personality and tough-guy looks, but it turns out that the host of “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” is actually a real softie when it comes to animals. In addition to owning a Chihuahua named Smokey, a German Shepard named Cowboy, and a Mastiff named Roxy (via Dogster), Fieri also has some rather unique pets in the form of a pet tortoise named Pops, peacocks, and hundreds of goats (via The Washington Post)....

Jeni’s Bizarre New Ice Cream Flavor Is Inspired By This Breakfast Food Rimma Bondarenko/Shutterstock By Justina Huddleston/Jan. 25, 2022 2:02 pm EST When you were little, did you ever think to yourself, “I can’t wait until I’m a grown-up, because then I can eat ice cream any time I want”? If so, then your dreams are about to come true. That’s because the concept of breakfast ice cream is finally here....

Nestlé Is Releasing A Sweet New Line Of Smoothie Pouches Outshine By Gina LaVecchia Ragone/Feb. 17, 2022 9:01 pm EST Smoothies are a tasty, efficient, and popular way for people to meet nutritional needs. In the United States, the smoothie market was valued at more than $12 billion in 2019, according to Market Data Forecast. Both bottled smoothie brands, like Naked Juice, and chains, such as Jamba, are responsible for a large part of the consumption of these cool, refreshing beverages....

Quick Homemade Pad Thai Recipe Ksenia Prints/Mashed By Ksenia Prints/Updated: Sept. 14, 2021 11:12 am EST Pad Thai is the perfect dish: a balance of noodles, a sweet and tangy sauce, a healthy dose of vegetables and not one, but three choice proteins. Topped with crunchy peanuts and a squeeze of lime, this is a dish you’ll want to make again and again. Probably the most ubiquitous dish of Thailand, pad Thai is a classic for vegetarians and meat eaters alike....

Rachael Ray Fans Are Loving Buddy Valastro’s ‘Shagadellic’ Sweet 16 Cake Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock By Lisa Curran Matte/Sept. 21, 2021 2:19 pm EST Rachael Ray kicked off the 16th season of her long-running television show in style with a shagadellic rainbow cake created just for her by her personal friend and renowned cake maestro Buddy Valastro. In a video shared on the “Rachael Ray,” Valastro hinted at his inspiration as he began to adorn the two-tier cake with an array of bright frosting colors....

The Creative Way This Boston Restaurant Celebrated Steph Curry’s Basketball Record Kevin Mazur/mg21/Getty By Boshika Gupta/Dec. 23, 2021 3:19 pm EST Basketball icon Steph Curry is a food lover who has a few dishes that he simply cannot get enough of. His wife, Ayesha Curry told Mashed in an interview last month that he used to love eating chicken parm and has now moved on to spicy seafood dishes. “The family favorite right now is the rasta pasta....

The Real Reason There Are No Menus At Rao’s - Exclusive Ethan Miller/Getty Images By Carly Caramanna/Nov. 17, 2021 10:20 am EST If you had to define the epitome of Southern Italian food in America, you’d have to look no further than Rao’s. Per LA Weekly, the 125-year legacy of the iconic restaurant brand now includes a line of jarred tomato sauces, cookbooks, and a multitude of celebrity fans — but it all goes back to the original restaurant located in New York City....

The Sad Death Of Ado Campeol, The ‘Father Of Tiramisu’ Fascinadora/Shutterstock By Hope Ngo/Updated: Nov. 18, 2021 10:06 am EST Most dessert lovers have heard of tiramisu — the ubiquitous Italian treat made with coffee-soaked ladyfingers and mascarpone — but there’s a chance they don’t know about the late Italian restaurateur Ado Campeol. The 93-year-old “father of tiramisu,” whose death was reported this weekend by BBC, was the owner of a northern Italian restaurant called Le Beccherie, without which we might not have the famous sweet we now enjoy at eateries throughout the world....

The Truth About Johnnie Gale From Alex Vs. America Crawfish Town USA/Facebook Link By Lauren Cahn/Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 8:28 am EST Food Network’s new cooking competition series “Alex vs. America,” which began airing on January 2, 2022, sees Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli challenging herself by competing against professional chefs who may be as talented as her, even if they haven’t yet reached her level of fame (via Reality Blurred). Hosted by Chef Eric Adjepong, each of the five episodes comprising the first season have Guarnaschelli competing with three professional chefs in an area of cooking where they all possess considerable expertise....

The Truth About Team Dough Angels From Holiday Wars: Season 3 New Africa/Shutterstock By Kate Hagan Gallup/Nov. 28, 2021 9:31 am EST Food Network’s “Holiday Wars” is back for a third season and fans are breaking out the cookies and milk as they follow this sweet special at home. Hosted by Maneet Chauhan of “Chopped” and “Iron Chef” fame, this year’s judging adds additional food expertise beyond that offered from past season hosts, including Raven-Symoné and Jonathan Bennett (via Distractify)....

The Truth About Tex-Mex Agave Photo Studio/Shutterstock By Crawford Smith/Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 9:42 am EST Tex-Mex is now one of America’s favorite foods, with restaurants in every state serving up dependable classics like margaritas, enchiladas, tacos, and queso. Since it’s so ubiquitous now, it’s shocking that the cuisine didn’t start spreading across America until well into the 20th century. While many Tex-Mex dishes existed in some form hundreds or even thousands of years ago, most of the modern versions of these foods were invented less than a century ago....

These Pokémon Eggo Waffles Will Have You Feeling Nostalgic Instagram By Ralph Schwartz/Oct. 7, 2021 3:05 pm EST Pokémon turned 25 this year, and as kids’ fads go, the Japanese-born video game, trading card, movie, and TV phenomenon has been amazingly enduring. The power of Pokémon got a boost in 2016, with the introduction of Pokémon Go — the augmented-reality version of the monster-catching game. But as the BBC observed a year ago, Pokémon might still feel fresh because the arrival of all those cute “pocket monsters” in our Nintendo Game Boys in the late 1990s introduced us to what our society would become — a bunch of people addicted to interacting with each other digitally....

This Bread Company Handed Out Loaves To Stranded I-95 Drivers MShev/Shutterstock By Gillie Houston/Jan. 5, 2022 4:35 pm EST Desperate holiday travelers stranded for 24 hours in an unexpected highway snarl earlier this week got a much needed helping hand from one long-standing Baltimore bakery. The standstill traffic, which began the evening of Monday, January 3 on an icy stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia, was caused by thousands of snowstorm-related crashes that stalled vehicles across the state and subsequently forced the closure of I-95 (via The New York Times), trapping thousands of drivers in their cars for upwards of a full day....

This Simple Egg Hack Will Change The Way You Make Avocado Toast Anastasia Izofatova/Shutterstock By Amanda Tarlton/Jan. 28, 2022 8:45 am EST There are a lot of acceptable toppings for toast: a smear of butter, a tablespoon of jam, or, if you’ve been on social media lately, a dollop of yogurt. However, arguably the most popular toast topping over the last few years is avocado. Avocado toast was named the biggest breakfast trend of 2017 by My Fitness Pal, according to Insider, and it continues to be popular today....

Trader Joe’s New Marinated Artichokes Are Turning Heads Instagram By Erich Barganier/Jan. 31, 2022 11:03 am EST Artichokes might seem like a daunting ingredient if you never used them before. According to Simply Recipes, you can eat this vegetable hot or cold, and the most basic preparation just requires you to trim the tips of the leaves off, slice the top of the artichoke off, and steam the vegetable. Trader Joe’s now has an artichoke product that can bypass most of this hassle, and shoppers are all over it....

Twitter Can’t Believe This $50,000 Bill From Salt Bae’s London Restaurant Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images By Adrianna MacPherson/Updated: Jan. 8, 2022 2:33 am EST Fans of fine cuisine and internet sensations may recognize the name Salt Bae, a.k.a. Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe, whose unique and bicep-accentuating method of seasoning food made waves back in 2017 and had audiences around the world drooling (via NBC News). Salt Bae has been causing quite a commotion on the internet lately, but it’s not because of any video that features his steamy tableside seasoning — it’s because of an eyebrow-raising bill that came out of his London restaurant, Nusr-Et....

Why Oprah Is Probably A Fan Of Noodles & Company’s Truff Mac DFree/Shutterstock By Karen Hart/Dec. 28, 2021 4:51 pm EST Oprah Winfrey’s “Favorite Things” list is pretty much the Bible of gift giving. If the item is on Oprah’s list, chances are your friends and family are going to love receiving it. That’s why when we saw she included TRUFF’s white truffle infused hot sauce on her 2019 list, and TRUFF’s original black truffle hot sauce on her 2018 list — which Oprah’s partner Stedman Graham apparently called “really delicious” (via Oprah Daily) — we figured the media mogul might be a fan of Noodles & Company’s TRUFF Mac....

Why Reddit Thinks Some Trendy Restaurants Have Gone Too Far Prostock-studio/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/Oct. 4, 2021 8:28 pm EST You may have seen the common criticisms of the average “trendy restaurant”. The food is too overpriced or just not that good, the atmosphere is too pretentious, and so on. That’s all fine — everyone is entitled to their own opinion and personal preferences, and no one is here to bash those hard-working people....