Meatless Mondays

WATCH: Danny Bowien Makes Jimmy Fallon Cook With Absurdly Huge Chopsticks

by Tina Nguyen

Yes, they look like props from a late night comedy show -- but any self-respecting Asian knows of the enormous chopsticks that their parents used for stir-frying. (Remember, the ones the length of a child's entire arm?). Danny Bowien respects the giant chopsticks.

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Eddie Huang On Cooking With Weed (And Cheetos)

by Tina Nguyen

Incredible revelations about the Human Panda abound in the latest edition of High Times. For instance: did you know that Eddie Huang smokes the reefer? If you didn't, prepare to be totally astounded by the rhapsody of weed that is this interview.

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Martha Stewart On Her Ex-Husband: 'He Went Nuts And Left Me! Can You Imagine?'

by Mariella Mosthof

Martha Stewart stopped by The Dr. Oz Show today to hawk her new book Living the Good Long Life, and while conversation turned inevitably to her Match.com dating life, she revealed a few bawdy tidbits we didn't expect to hear from ever-cordial Martha.

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GIVEAWAY: Tickets To Meet (And Eat With!) Adam Richman And 40 Of NYC's Best Chefs

by Laura Norkin

Richman's hosting the NYC event for the third year in a row, and says, "whenever you have a chef that's like, 'this is just something I'm playing with,' you know that's always going to be the dope shit." You know what else is dope? Winning free tickets to The New Taste of the Upper West Side. See how right here:

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News

Week In Review, July 30 – August 5: Olympics, Food Trucks, and Controversy

by Julia Emmanuele 12:49 pm, August 5th

In case you’ve missed some of the interesting things we’ve been doing here at The Braiser this week, we’ve put together a handy slideshow of the most newsworthy stories. Happy Sunday!
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TV

WATCH: Stephen Colbert Calls For Ethical Treatment Of Produce In Response To Meatless Mondays

by Mariella Mosthof 5:53 pm, August 3rd

Stephen Colbert recently weighed in on the USDA’s Meatless Monday endorsement, and while he disagreed with the entire existence of the USDA in the first place, he pointed out that the federal organization was ignoring a key angle of the Meatless Movement: namely, the recent discovery that plants have feelings, too.
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Food In Politics

USDA Pulls Support Of Meatless Mondays Program After Heat From Cattleman’s Association

by Mariella Mosthof 9:46 am, August 1st

We’ll admit the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association sounds like an intimidating bunch. They could probably kill a man with one shake of their spurs. But are we wrong in thinking that the USDA is being a little wimpy about this?
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Food In Politics

PETA Takes Bets On Senator’s Death Via Twitter

by Mariella Mosthof 11:05 am, July 29th

When Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley tweeted that he’d be taking a DOUBLE helping of meat on Meatless Mondays to protest the USDA’s support of the program, PETA pounced. Agreeing with PETA is a strange and new emotion for us.
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