Starbucks seems to be America’s favorite coffee spot, popular no matter the season. While fall brings favorites like the pumpkin spice latte, summer brings its own hot weather fare. And summer drinks are more…
After almost a decade long absence, the McCrispy Snack Wrap has returned to the McDonald’s menu in all its glory. It was officially reintroduced as of July 10, 2025 in response to ongoing customer…
Beer and pizza go together like, well, milk and cookies or maybe margaritas and tacos. Fast-food operations aside, it’s impossible to imagine a pizza parlor that doesn’t offer a good choice of brews, and…
Bars mean drinking (unless the words “tapas” or “sushi” are appended), but the majority of such establishments also serve food. The cynical view is that bars offer things to eat — sometimes free (though…
Where’s the beef? In America, it’s everywhere, in all 50 states. The cattle industry, including dairy cows, is the most important agricultural enterprise in the country. In 2019, it brought in some $66.2 billion…
Everybody wants our states and cities to reopen — to get back to business as usual. The situation is particularly critical for the restaurant industry, which has been especially hard hit by the pandemic.…
Americans spent an average of $3,189 on food eaten away from home in 2017 (the last year for which figures are available), according to data site Statista. People aged 35 to 44 spent the…
While the world struggles to contain the spread of COVID-19, there seem to be few areas of life that aren’t being dramatically — and at times devastatingly — impacted. One area that is being…
The idea that hours can be happy goes back centuries: Medieval sundials were often inscribed with the motto “Horas non numero nisi serenas” — I only count the happy hours. As for the kind…
Comfort food is just what it sounds like — food that comforts us, not just satisfying our hunger but warming us emotionally, making us feel better about life. It has these effects for reasons…
The ultimate authority on the biggest, smallest, longest, shortest, least, most, and sometimes just plain silliest things in the world has long been the volume that appears annually as Guinness World Records. Now published…
More than 820 million people around the world — just over 11% of the global population — suffer from hunger, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). At the same time, ironically…
There are more than 38,000 supermarkets in the U.S. The vast majority of these — over 25,000 — are so-called conventional or traditional markets. The Food Marketing Institute defines these as stores offering a…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated in 2018 that our annual consumption of chicken as a nation was about 98 pounds per person. When the National Chicken Council conducted a survey of chicken-eating habits,…
The National Weather Service reports that Hurricane Dorian, with its 185 mph winds, is the second strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. Now Dorian has lost some of its strength — it…
Which came first, the bacon or the egg? That’s an easy one: Eggs win by millions of years. As early as 7000 B.C., people in India and China had domesticated chickens and were eating…
More than 36% of American adults ate fast food on a given day between 2013 and 2016, according to a report on fast food consumption by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and…
According to the International Dairy Foods Association in its report on ice cream sales and trends, about 1.4 billion gallons of ice cream and related frozen desserts (like gelato and sorbet) were produced in…
Ah, cruising the seven seas — exotic ports, beautiful sunsets, bracing sea air, endless buffets, celebrity chefs, world-class bars, casinos, live music, sparkling swimming pools, and much, much more, all a million miles (or…
People first started calling a late morning/early afternoon weekend meal “brunch” in 1895, but neither the term nor the idea grew popular in the U.S. — or elsewhere around the world — until the…
