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WATCH: The Sussman Brothers Ride Horses And Crash Tea Parties On Truckers In The Wild

by Tina Nguyen

God forbid that Max and Eli Sussman, the pride of Brooklyn, ever betray their hipster roots by doing such WASPy things as equestrian activities and gossiping with ladies over tea.

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Justin Warner Live From GoogaMooga: Don't Just Instagram His Foie Gras Jelly Doughnut, EAT IT

by Mariella Mosthof

We managed to chat with Googa vet Justin Warner, whose Bed-Stuy eatery Do or Dine is back at the festival for its second year, serving up its infamous foie gras jelly doughnut. Check out our Q&A with him below to find out how this year's festival is measuring up to last year's notorious shitshow.

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This Is Cool: An Infographic Cookbook

by Laura Norkin

After a long day at the office stringing words together in varying degrees of coherence, the last thing we want to do is keep communicating in complete sentences. Replacing the grunts and gestures we rely on to get dinner on the table, is Picture Cook, a tome that turns the traditional cookbook on its head; it offers illustrated recipes rather than wordy instructions.

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WATCH: David Chang Tests Space Food With Astronaut Chris Hadfield And Mythbusters

by Tina Nguyen

Watch below, because honestly, this is the most exciting collection of people that we've ever seen. Nothing will top this moment. Nothing.

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WATCH: David Chang Tests Space Food With Astronaut Chris Hadfield And Mythbusters

by Tina Nguyen 12:38 pm, May 17th

Watch below, because honestly, this is the most exciting collection of people that we’ve ever seen. Nothing will top this moment. Nothing.
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With Big Grant Bucks, Rene Redzepi To Research Getting People To Eat More Bugs

by Tina Nguyen 5:40 pm, May 15th

The Nordic Food Lab, aka the secret laboratory Rene Redzepi and his friends set up on a secret houseboat, will spend the next three years researching ways to introduce insects to the Western palate, thanks to a 3.6 million kroner ($621,879) grant from the Velux Foundation.
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Study: People Prefer Access To Healthy Food Over Hospitals, Nice Neighbors

by Tina Nguyen 2:29 pm, March 6th

You may decide to read this article from The Atlantic containing a GlaxoSmithKline study to figure out what those priorities may be. And you might be surprised with what your peers want with their lives: access to healthy food.
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WATCH: Tech Billionaire Elon Musk Spent $100M To Send A Giant Wheel Of Cheese Into Space

by Tina Nguyen 12:10 pm, February 22nd

Since space programs stopped using monkeys to test their spacecrafts after 1960, the next best thing…is apparently a big wheel of gourmet Gruyere cheese.
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Alton Brown Explains Why The Blue Milk From Star Wars ‘Ain’t Milk’

by Tina Nguyen 3:23 pm, February 15th

Blue Milk has captured the imaginations of millions of Star Wars fans who want to see it return in the next group of Disney-produced sequels. There’s only one problem, according to Alton Brown: “It ain’t milk.”
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WATCH: Bourdain Talks Science & Food With Famed Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson

by Tina Nguyen 3:59 pm, January 10th

How did this happen? How did Anthony Bourdain get in the same room as Neil DeGrasse Tyson, America’s favorite astrophysicist, for an episode of Nerdist’s Star Talk?
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WATCH: Inside The Fermentation Labs At David Chang’s Momofuku Restaurants

by Tina Nguyen 9:50 am, January 4th

It’s well known that David Chang and the team at Momofuku are working with Harvard microbiologist Rachel Dutton to create new flavor profiles by letting microbes feast on food and fermenting the heck out of it (that’s how they get miso, after all). But a new video from Reuters actually shows that process in action.
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Wine Personality Study: Red Wine Drinkers More Likely To Be Successful In Life

by Tina Nguyen 2:46 pm, December 16th

A recent study from the French Wines Bulletin has found that people’s wine choices say something about their personality: wine drinkers are frou-frou Europeans who like drinking fancy no-no juice. Ha, no.
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WATCH: Jose Andres Spreads Joy And Happiness At Harvard

by Tina Nguyen 1:35 pm, October 26th

Even more amazing: he does no actual cooking and still he’s engaging throughout.
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Blogger Discovers That You’re Never More Than 170 Miles Away From A Starbucks

by Tina Nguyen 12:15 pm, October 6th

Ha, did you think you could escape the mermaid?? Think again, person who likes local coffeehouses and rails agains the creep of corporatism in American society!
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