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Chefs Hoping For 'Straight F*ckin' Cash' Ended Up 'Bummed' By GoogaMooga
Anthony Falco of Roberta's said "this is what you plan for when you do outside events, this is how it works." But some other chefs are facing some major debt after the downer GoogaMooga cancellation.
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WATCH: The Most Intense Moments (And One Sweet One) In Anthony Bourdain's Trip To Libya
Goodbye, food porny trips to elegant France; hello, looped footage of Muammar Gadaffi being viciously beaten to death.
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WATCH: Rachael Ray & Guy Fieri Imitate Anchorman In Painful 'Improv' Bit With Wayne Brady
Guys, did you know that Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri love Anchorman? Because, they're like, totally obsessed.
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UPDATE: Superfly to Refund GoogaMooga VIP Tickets For Rained-Out Sunday
We spoke to Superfly Co-Founder Jonathan Mayers about the Great GoogaMooga Debacle of 2013 (not to be confused with the Great GoogaMooga Debacle of 2012), and he confirmed that his company would be refunding VIP ticketholders, as well as drink tickets that were purchased today.
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Last Call: What Your Facebook ‘Likes’ Say About You (That You’re Obese)
PLUS: The Great Gatsby, the good cheeses, and the worst sequestration cuts.
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Obama Proposal Would Prevent Slaughtering Horses For Meat; Horse Meat News Canters On
The budget proposal, which would defund horse slaughtering inspections, kills the dreams of all Americans who wanted to figure out some efficient way to get rid of all those old horses lying around.
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WATCH: Mario Batali Slams ‘The Hipsters At The USDA’ For Changing Meat Cut Names
In case you hadn’t heard, the USDA has decided to revamp the Uniform Retail Meat Identification Standards (URMIS) in an effort to help consumers better understand the cuts of meat they’re purchasing. Mario Batali, for one, was shocked and appalled by these newfangled monikers.
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Oops. USDA Massively Fudges The Number Of People Collecting Food Stamps
Oh, the United States Department of Agriculture, always crushing our dreams and fragile beliefs in a democratic safety net. Yesterday, the department sheepishly announced that they’d made a tiny miscalculation about the number of people who’d gotten off of food stamps between January and March 2013. Instead of an optimistic 514,458 recipients leaving the program, as they’d reported previously, only 19,948 got off the Food Stamp rolls — roughly 1/26th of the previous number.
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YAY: Meat Inspectors Won’t Get Furloughed During Sequester
Finally, Congress made a move to save one of our nation’s most valued institutions: the people who make sure our meat won’t make us sick and die.
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Last Call: Calm Down, There’s No Chicken Wing Shortage, Just Like There Was No Baconpocalypse
Plus: Eva Longoria’s sexist steak house commercial, Michelle Obama’s latest plot to starve America’s children, and New York’s best carnivore-friendly vegetarian restaurants.
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Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Plan Overhauled To Include More Meats And Grains
Michelle Obama recently spearheaded the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which went into full effect in school cafeterias for the 2012-2013 school year. Now, the USDA is buckling on the initial guidelines, allowing schools to exceed the set maximum on meats and grains, if they so choose.
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With 47.1 Million Americans On Food Stamps, Usage Skyrockets To Highest Levels In US History
Even Mario Batali, who famously put his family on a food stamp diet to highlight the increasing price of food, probably didn’t see this one coming.
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Week In Review, July 30 – August 5: Olympics, Food Trucks, and Controversy
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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WATCH: Stephen Colbert Calls For Ethical Treatment Of Produce In Response To Meatless Mondays
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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UPDATE: GoogaMooga Founder Comments On Today’s Cancellation
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