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A Taste of Nutella (and a Look at Its Nutrition)
In the wake of a class-action suit against Nutella for misrepresenting its product as a healthy breakfast for kids, Supertaster samples the stuff and stacks its nutrition against Peanut Butter & Co. Dark Chocolate Dreams, Jif to Go Chocolate Silk, and 3 Musketeers.
How Do You Get Chile Burn Off Your Hands?
If you've ever chopped hot chiles with hands unprotected by food-prep gloves, you've experienced the searing burn of capsaicin. The active component of chile peppers feels like torture when it gets into your eyes or mucous membranes, and it can irritate your fingers with a burning pain that lasts for hours. Obviously, your skin isn't actually burned, explains Dr. John Hayes, director of the Sensory Evaluation Center at Pennsylvania State University. Your body is just tricking you. READ MORE
Chunky Monkey, Big in Japan
A line of at least 60 people huddled under umbrellas in a relentless spring rain in Tokyo's Harajuku neighborhood. What were they all in line for? As I got closer it dawned on me: free ice cream scoops to mark the opening of Ben & Jerry's Japanese flagship store.
So far on this vacation, I hadn't thought much about sweets. Most restaurants in Japan didn't serve dessert, and if they did, it was usually a sticky, chewy mochi concoction. But I did notice that sweet shops abounded in Kyoto, with displays of beautifully wrapped boxed things—typically mochi sheets wrapped around fillings mostly made of bean paste. But the products all looked the same, a bit sterile, even boring. READ MORE
10 Party Dishes from Convenience-Store Ingredients
A bunch of friends descend on your house, and you need some fast and easy party food. Quick! Hit the corner market! Here are 10 tips on how to create simple snacks and drinks from the local convenience store. Easy entertaining on the fly! READ MORE
Party-Friendly Food and Drinks for Cinco de Mayo
45 recipes to help you celebrate Cinco de Mayo, including tacos, dips, DIY tortilla chips, and beer cocktails. BROWSE RECIPE SLIDESHOW
“Game of Thrones” Party Menu
If you think George R. R. Martin's wildly popular medieval-esque A Song of Ice and Fire books (chronicled in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, now in season two) are only about power struggles and swordplay, you're wrong. The books also contain lots of vividly described food references—enough to inspire a food blog called The Inn at the Crossroads. We got so into it we came up with our own Game of Thrones menu, just the thing to serve this weekend when your faux-fur-and-robe-clad fan friends come over to gorge on the latest episode.
Start off your viewing party by raising a mug of steamy mulled wine, just like Salladhor Saan, the commander of a fleet of mercenary ships, would. Get recipe>> READ MORE
Kung Pow Spicy Peanuts Provide a Kick to the Mouth
The Sichuan peppercorn–boosted kick of Kung Pow Spicy Peanuts does a number on Supertaster's palate.
Vote in Round 2 of Our Best Brewpub Bracket!
The fighting in CHOW’s Best Brewpub in America Bracket's first round of 16 contenders was anything but sweet. Now, 8 have emerged to brawl again. Congratulations to the winners, and let the voting for week 2 begin! READ MORE
The Dim Sum Cart Goes Bistro
Since rolling into American Chinese restaurants in the 1970s, pushcarts loaded with little dishes have become synonymous with Hong Kong–style dim sum. But at State Bird Provisions in San Francisco, owner-chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krazinski have refashioned the dim sum cart to be the vehicle of their small-plates bistro, a place where you won't find a single shumai or steamed pork bun. Each night through the narrow dining room, servers wheel the custom-built, orange-framed cart (a midcentury-modern Scandinavian tea cart inspired its oblique angles), stopping to ID cold dishes like Miyagi oysters on the half shell, drizzled with a sauce containing dashi. Hot dishes likewise circulate on custom wood trays, and you can order some things in the traditional way, off a short printed menu of "Commandables." It feels like a cocktail party with a cool edge, or what local restaurant critic Jonathan Kauffman calls “a meal of constant motion and surprise.” READ MORE
