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Americans once survived on squirrel pie, whiskey and homemade cheese after British imports dried up
Capri Cafaro, host of the new “America the Bountiful” special, reveals how colonial food production, from whiskey at Mount Vernon to squirrel pie, helped fuel independence from Britain.
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Refueling fishing boat EXPLODES in front of Maryland seafood shack on July 4, forcing multiple choppers to airlift severely injured victims
The 32-foot-long boat had just refueled in front of a seafood restaurant called Schaefer’s Canal House before the explosion.
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Much-loved Sheffield restaurant celebrates 30-year-milestone – thestar.co.uk
Much-loved Sheffield restaurant celebrates 30-year-milestone thestar.co.uk
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Joey Chestnut Stuffs Face For 18th Coney Island Hot Dog Contest Victory; Miki Sudo Tops Among Women
Joey Chestnut, who in the immortal words of ESPN sports reporter Jeremy Schaap is “the greatest eater in the annals of eating, in the annals of humankind, and food,” won his 18th title today at the annual July 4th Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, New York. Chestnut scarfed down 66 dogs,…
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Residents of Wordsworth’s ‘loveliest’ Lake District village are furious over plans to turn restaurant into its first-ever kebab shop
A Lake District village once described by Wordsworth as ‘the loviest spot that man hath ever found’ is under siege… from a kebab shop.
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The ‘1776 Diet’: What Americans really ate during the nation’s founding
Colonial Americans ate whole foods, organ meats and johnnycakes out of necessity. A registered dietician weighs in on what's worth emulating.
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Food Preservatives May Increase the Risk of High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease
Aa large-scale study demonstrates that preservatives widely used in everyday processed foods may exacerbate common health risks.
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Kebab firm fed millions of Britons goat, chicken drumsticks and animal fat mislabelled as lamb in scandal likened to horsemeat food fraud crisis
Millions of Britons have chowed down on goat kebabs, it is estimated, in a scandal likened to the horsemeat crisis.
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Eleven-year-old girl shot in the head by McDonald’s worker, 18, as he arrived for his shift at Florida fast food restaurant
Dora Belen Rivera was sitting in the car with her two siblings, two and five, and her father on Saturday when she was accidentally shot in the head by Ralph N-Kosi Blue, 18.