Duff’s New Ice Cream: This Ace of Cakes has partnered with Blue Bunny to create four cake-themed ice creams. Here’s the scoop on the new flavors: Chocolate Lovers Triple Chocolate Cake, Strawberries are Forever Shortcake, I Do I Do Wedding Cake and Red Carpet Red Velvet. We’re already screaming for them. [eater.com] Bolivia’s Quinoa Conundrum:Read more »

Sure, Austin has enough melty queso to spread across the great length of Texas, but for a moment at South By Southwest on Saturday night, it was also home to a 640-pound block of cheddar sculpted into famous internet cats. Friskies, celebrating the launch of their new cheese-flavored cat food, Tasty Treasures, tapped the folksRead more »

The Audio Files of One Oenophile: An Austrian winemaker has invented a sound system that plays classical, jazz or electronic music to grapes as they ferment. “The sound waves, he claims, positively influence the maturing process and produce a better tasting wine.” [thehour.com via grubstreet.com] [Food Network Wine] NYC Restaurants: ‘The Customer Is Not AlwaysRead more »

Tacos With a Side of Gasoline: The Wall Street Journal highlights a new trend: the gas station taqueria. From California to Maine, you can fuel up on both tacos and gas at these five spots – so chose your route accordingly. [wsj.com] New Mexico Chilly On Other Chiles: The state’s chile industry has taken aRead more »

A Wish to Never Eat Farmed Salmon Ever: The New York Times’ Mark Bittman is concerned about the future of fish. Given that worldwide consumption of seafood has doubled over the past few decades and the state of the aquaculture industry (wherein wild-caught fish are turned into meal for farmed fish), the sea is beingRead more »

What’s the Big Whoop? Pie-minded folks in Pennsylvania are in a heated debate with their compatriots in Maine over which states’ residents created the first whoopie pie. Throwing a wrench into both of their half-baked arguments is a food historian, who tells the Wall Street Journal that the original documented fluffy cookie sandwich is actuallyRead more »

The Super Bowl’s Super Food Pizza chains will likely experience a 35% boost in sales this Super Bowl Sunday, the Chicago Breaking Business reports. Will you mix and match toppings that best represent your team? While it might seem like the Cheeseheads have a leg up here, there must be a Pittsburg-friendly pizza version ofRead more »

A Super-Scientific Study Reveals Paula is Popular: In a new survey based on Facebook fan count, the Feast finds that today’s most-liked chef is none other than our Queen of Southern Cuisine. With 1,244,012 folks who’ve given her a thumbs-up, Paula beat out Gordon Ramsay, Thomas Keller and a few other Food Network stars. [thefeast.com]Read more »

That’s The Cheddar: Since everything tastes better with cheese, spread the word about how these 8 popular cheeses got their names. [mentalfloss.com via eatocracy.cnn.com] Food Pyramid Controversy: A nonprofit doctors’ group is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health for failing to recognize a vegetarian alternative to the traditional foodRead more »

Today Is National Spaghetti Day: How will you celebrate? We can think of ways both healthy and classic (okay, and weird.) New Super Food: Almonds A diet rich in almonds could ward off type 2 diabetes, a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition reveals. Good thing dark chocolate andRead more »