Hot on the heels of Floss, the hidey-hole-finding, paintball-field-terrorizing Yorkshire runaway comes word of an unnamed bovine escapee on the run in Queens today. Last we heard she was being corralled with the help of the mounted (on horses, that is) police force. The spectacularly-named Richard P. Gentles, spokesman for the city Animal Care andRead more »

The Atlantic Food Channel brings us word that KFC is launching a trial run of halal fried chicken in a few branches in London. No word what that’ll mean for the UK’s thriving world of non-Kentucky Fried Chicken; it remains to be seen whether Dallas Fried Chicken, Euro Fried Chicken, New York Chicken and Ribs,Read more »

Just recieved the following video from our Senior Vice President Susan: Rupa Bhattacharya, Culinary Writer

Yet again, we’ve got pig on the brain. This time we’re not feeling very hungry. While health organizations around the world scramble to contain the spread of a swine influenza virus that’s brought us with breathtaking speed to the brink of a global flu pandemic (who says pigs can’t fly!?), relatively little media coverage hasRead more »

So I guess Wayne Gretzky is making wine now. This just arrived in my inbox, for all three of you who are going to be in the vicinity of Acker Merrall & Condit on Saturday and also have dueling interests in hockey and wine: 5pm-7:30pm: Canadian Wines of Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Great, presented by formerRead more »

AHT brings us word of a cheeseburger-themed version of everyone’s favorite romantic vampire teen sensation: I could almost get behind this iteration. Rupa Bhattacharya, Culinary Writer

On further thought: As much as Skinny Bastard would seem to hold little appeal for guys, I’m coming to think that’s kind of beside the point. My initial pessimism re: the book’s potential for success is perhaps a sign that I’d fallen for a clever bit of misdirection on the part of the authors/publisher. DespiteRead more »

On Monday, the women behind the mega-selling ‘Skinny Bitch’ diet book franchise are hitting bookstores with their latest opus ‘Skinny Bastard.’ This time around the ‘Bitches’ are taking their mixture of tough love + veganism to the guys. Subtitled ‘A Kick-in-the-Ass for Real Men Who Want to Stop Being Fat and Start Getting Buff,’ KimRead more »

I’ve switched from baseball mode to cocktail mode (yes, for work, why are you looking at me that way), and just came across this fantastic home bar primer by the SF Chronicle’s Jon Bonné and cocktail legend Gary Regan. If you’re looking to get a handle on cocktail basics, you could do far, far worse.Read more »

Press mentions of our concession stands are slowly starting to trickle in — check out here and here from Major League Baseball (who, incidentally, share our office in Chelsea Market), and we’re alluded to in this thing here in the New Yorker. On a side note, my favorite moment in every game I’ve worked atRead more »