From Fancy to Everyday Foods. Some restaurant dishes used to come with a certain amount of luxury attached to them. You ordered them for anniversaries, business dinners, or nights when everyone actually bothered to dress…
The Menu Items That Make Kitchen Veterans Wince. Chefs spend years watching what happens in a kitchen before food ever reaches a table, and it changes what they're willing to order once they're the one…
Restaurant Menus Can Hide a Lot of Salt. Eating out doesn't automatically mean throwing healthy habits aside, but restaurant food can contain much more sodium than you'd expect. Sauces, cheese, cured meats, seasoning, broths, and…
Your Eyes Are Misleading You. Food usually gives you plenty of clues about what you're about to experience, but appearances don't always tell the whole story. Some foods have bright colors that suggest one flavor…
The Soup Pot Deserves a Comeback. Grandma didn’t need a carton of trendy bone broth or seventeen toppings to make soup worthwhile. Older recipes relied on inexpensive cuts of meat, dried beans, leftover vegetables, and…
The Snacks & Meals That Defined a Childhood. Millennials grew up during a strange time for food, when lunchboxes were packed with aggressively colorful snacks, microwaves handled a surprising amount of dinner, and nobody thought…
The Health Halo Is Doing Heavy Lifting. Most people don't get derailed by pizza. They get derailed by the food they eat on purpose, believing it's helping. A granola bar in the afternoon and a…
Delicious Food, Terrible Branding. Some foods have names that do absolutely nothing to help their case. You can know perfectly well that a dish is delicious and still hesitate when someone offers you something called…
The Menu Isn't Lying, But It's Not Telling You Everything. Diners run on a strange kind of trust. You sit down, scan a laminated menu the size of a small newspaper, and assume every dish…
