2010′s Food Themes: Pies vs. cupcakes. GIY (grow it yourself) produce. Designer ice cubes. And yes, Sandra Lee as NYC’s First Lady and the Cooking Channel. We didn’t even pay the foodie folks at SeriousEats.com for those last nods, but they included them in their fun roundup of the top 10 themes and memes inRead more »

Dissecting the Gingerbread Man: Two-thirds of those polled in a Dunkin’ Donuts survey say they go straight for the jugular when biting into a gingerbread man. What’s more is that this act, according to neurologist Dr. Alan Hirsch, reveals something about one’s inner workings. Head-biters are “achievement-oriented individuals,” Hirsch tells the New York Daily News.Read more »

The Potato Non-Famine: Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, announced last October that he was going to eat nothing but potatoes for 60 days. His reason? “It seemed as if the potato was being blamed for the obesity crisis, for diabetes, that it was the scourge of the earth,” Voigt explainedRead more »

Time to Stock Up on Chocolate: Turns out that cocoa, the stuff responsible for so many confections we love, is less than sweet to grow. According to industry experts, farmers may stop producing the crop, resulting in skyrocketing chocolate prices over the next 20 years. “[Chocolate] will be like caviar,” John Mason, Executive Director ofRead more »

Pop Goes the Kernel: If you’ve 12 seconds to spare, use them to watch the moment when a single kernel of corn explodes into the popped puff we love to pour butter over. It’s a dramatic coming-of-age tale, told by the folks at Modernist Cuisine, who slowed down the transformative moment to 6,200 frames perRead more »

The Candy Land Before Time: Turns out candy and Halloween haven’t always been BFFs; in fact, bite-sized sugary treats were only doled out after coins, nuts, seasonal fruits, cookies and a slew of other trinkets until about 1950. Read up on their rocky road to a love that’s good and plenty. [The Atlantic] Redesigning theRead more »

Trend Alert! Garlic Bread? The Wall Street Journal was surprised to find two trendy NYC restaurants serving spruced-up garlic bread. Will we start to see the garlicky favorite making menu appearances all over the place? Will garlic bread be the new bacon? [Wall Street Journal] No Cash for Cookies: Shoppers who pay for groceries withRead more »

What a Truffle With 443,330 Calories Looks Like: The world’s largest truffle has been created, with Guinness World Record officials weighing in the giant ball of brandy and chocolate at roughly 560 pounds. The British choco-engineers responsible for the truffle plan to chop up it up into 2,000 bite-sized pieces and sell them off toRead more »

7 Ways to Savor the Last Bite: Salon.com reports that we toss up to a quarter of our food, and while the dumpster divers seek to save said discarded goodies, there are measures you can take before food hits the trash. Did you know you could freeze milk? Hello, homemade ice cream! Will frittatas beRead more »

Bye Bye Bacon? The Wall Street Journal traces the popularity of bacon from an everyday breakfast food to a cooking super-trend, and one that’s about to sizzle out fast. “It’s been overplayed so much and my taste buds are tired of it,” Boston chef Ken Oringer tells the WSJ. So he, alongside a growing numberRead more »