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07/22/2016

NYC Restaurant Week starts Monday!

Restaurant week in New York City starts on Monday, July 25th and runs until August 19th. It's a good opportunity to try some restaurants you might otherwise not get to at a lower cost. For $25 at lunch and $42 at dinner (excluding tax and tip) you can get three courses. Celebrity chefs, of course, h...

07/22/2016

Restaurant kitchens are pretty gnarly places.

We already know that restaurants and their kitchens can be pretty gnarly places. At one point or another, you've probably found a hair in your food that you just knew in your heart of hearts wasn't yours. And you've heard the stories of kitchen staff spitting into the food of rude customers. Thanks…

07/22/2016

ICYMI: You need see this throwback photo.

Throwback Thursday is my favorite holiday. I can't get enough. There are two kinds of photos one can post for . 1. Cute baby photos. 2. Pictures of embarrassing moments you probably with were not captured in time for all eternity that you now have to embrace because the Internet never forgets. T...

07/22/2016

Live king crab is terrifying.

Have you ever seen a king crab? Before it looks like food and gets to your plate? It's terrifying. Last night, Carlo Mirarchi, the chef of Roberta's in Brooklyn stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers to cook seafood with host Seth Meyers and Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones. On the table is a gigantic...

07/22/2016

WARNING: You will feel the need to consume lots and lots of fried chicken after watching this.

Warning: do not watch this video if you're on any sort of diet, because after you've watched it you're going to want to eat fried chicken with a sense of urgency that was previously only felt during medical emergencies. In the most recent clip from PBS's The Mind of a Chef, James Beard Award Winner ...

07/21/2016

According to Alton Brown, the show is just like Hamilton: An American Musical, but with food.

"Eat your science is probably the next Hamilton, but, you know, with food," says Alton Brown in a video announcement he made today. In that case, sign us up. Brown's show Alton Brown Live: Eat Your Science will be coming to Broadway this Fall for an extremely limited engagement (eight performances o...

07/21/2016

Field trip to Lancaster, PA anyone?

2009 America's least favorite human, Jon Gosselin is now cooking at a T.G.I.Fridays in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, according to an exclusive on Entertainment Tonight. Up until now Gosselin was mainly known for his reality TV show, divorcing his ex wife Kate, with whom he has eight children, and spendin...

07/21/2016

More pizza, always.

We've all been there. It's time to order some pizza, and you can't decide whether to get two smalls or a large for everyone. Thanks to AsapSCIENCE on YouTube, we now have the clear answer. While a 16" pizza may seem like double the size of 8" pizza, the math you learned way back in the day proves th...

07/20/2016

We're not complaining about this at all.
http://www.thebraiser.com/taim-israeli-food-einat-admony-is-planning-to-create-a-global-falafel-empire/
photo via Instagram.

07/20/2016

This is oddly calming to watch.

Stephen Colbert's antics at the Republican National Convention are well-documented. He declared the start of The Hunger Games onstage, and he even slipped back into his old character from The Colbert Report for a bit to invent the word "Trumpiness." But, eventually, according to him the convention g...

07/19/2016

Every time Action Bronson releases a new video, it makes our day better. http://www.thebraiser.com/vsxdd

07/19/2016

The Sporkful with Dan Pashman does it again.

Dan Pashman explored the topic of eating on the campaign trail on this week's episode of his podcast The Sporkful.