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Food & Drink
There’s so many interesting tidbits contained in this Businessweek profile of AB InBev, the world’s largest brewing conglomerate, and 52-year-old Carlos Brito, the man in charge of the company, that I’m at a loss where to begin. It’s a deeply fascinating look at how there is the runaway train of AB InBev and then craft [...]
First they showed us how they advertise its food, then they revealed how the Big Mac sauce gets made, now, the third video from McDonald’s Canada reveals the industrial magic behind the company’s famous french fries from farm to fryer. They obviously left out the part where the fries are sprinkled with crack on them. [...]
In celebration of The Rolling Stones’ 50th Anniversary, Japanese distillery Suntory has released 150 limited edition whiskey bottles shaped in the band’s iconic lips and tongue logo. It’ll be Suntory time for you, if you have $6,300 to spare for one of these bottles. Probably best to just get a bottle of Jack Daniels white [...]
Jack Daniel’s Unaged Rye Whiskey — described as having “a sweet and fruity smell, plenty of rye bite, and a crisp, dry finish” — will be available in Tennessee in December for $50. It’s the distillery’s first new mashbill in about 100 years. “Jack Daniel’s has a unique quality where we are similar to a [...]
Dwight Garner hips me to the Peanut Butter and Pickle sandwich, which he insists is a “thrifty and unacknowledged American classic.” Why can’t the peanut butter and pickle sandwich get a little respect? A few weeks ago, I began calling and e-mailing smart food people — chefs, journalists, cookbook writers, editors — to get their take [...]
Does Elmer’s Store, located in Ashfield, Mass., have the best pancakes in New England? — a region that debates its pancakes quality with the grim seriousness of Puritan religion. Sure, why the hell not. My money is still on Polly’s Pancake Parlor in Sugar Hill, NH, but I’m open to your thoughts on Elmer’s Store and [...]
Blue Bottle Coffee, which has become a staple of the Bay Area, the equivalent of Stumptown Coffee for that area, has taken $20 million from venture capitalists, who are banking that the area chain can go national and maintain its coffee snob street cred. Oddly enough, the last coffee chain to take outside investment for [...]
Nicola Shipley, of Tattoo Cakes, made a nifty collection of cupcakes inspired by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which come to think of it should’ve been on the AV Club’s list of the 50 best movies of the 90s, but wasn’t. Anyway, the attention to detail on these cupcakes is just astounding! We have no idea if they contain any [...]
This is why GQ’s recent list of America’s best beer cities can’t be taken seriously. Remy Scalza visits one neighborhood in Portland, Ore., one!, and makes it seem better than anywhere else in America. Now, take that experience and multiply it by about 30 neighbors and you still aren’t even close to experiencing Beervana. Just [...]
