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It’s St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The bar you’re in has 30 beers on tap, yet you’ve only heard of one of them. You order it while your friend gets some German-style something-or-other that supposedly “pairs well with jackfruit.” Worst of all, you feel the fear creep in...
Hot. Salty. Crispy. The French Fry is as simple a culinary treasure as it is delicious. Sure, you can tart it up with truffle oil, but you can also just stuff the greasy, fast food version into your mouth with equal pleasure (plus a generous heaping of...
Let’s talk tacos. For the better part of a decade, Rasta Taco founder Mario Melendez has been slingin’ his brand of the Mexican street-food staple (with a Caribbean twist) from a custom-made food cart. (Take that food-truck trend.) And with a brick-and-mortar location in the works, he...
Drew Pletcher didn’t launch Hand-Brewed Beer in L.A. to crank out just another IPA. He and his partners set out to upturn the microbrew industry. Here’s how he says they intend to do so: If you can’t wait check out the list of restaurants and bars serving up...
For the athletes on the field, the Super Bowl is the culmination of hard work, super-human discipline and countless hours of practice. For the rest of us, it’s an excuse to stuff our faces with junk food. And nothing goes down with Super Bowl viewing like a...
Devin Plaut, a DSC member since May 2012, aspires to rule the chocolate business like Willy Wonka, the ultimate candy capitalist. And so, the founder of Laughing Fox Chocolate has decided to give away a Golden Ticket of his own for Valentine’s Day—his chocolate truffle recipe. Sure, it’s not his top-secret Paleo...
Figuring out how much money you need for retirement is enough to make you drink. Some quick math: Say you need $50,000 a year to live. And say you plan on retiring at 65 and living to 85. That means you need to save roughly $1 million...
It’s no coincidence that the holiday season’s mascot is a morbidly obese guy who gorges himself on cookies. Forget about presents and obnoxious sweaters, binge-eating is the true star of December’s holiday festivities. But it’s not your fault that you keep reaching for seconds and thirds and...
The world has a right to know how amazingly awesome Dollar Shave Club members are. So every Monday, we spotlight one of them to give you a peek into their awesomeness. This week, we’re profiling Eli Topete, a DSC member since September 2013. Last year, she started Elicious,...
This November, ditch your frozen bird for a heritage turkey, the thoroughbred of the poultry world whose bloodlines date back to the early 1900s. It’s as close to eating like a pilgrim as you can get. LOOK FAMILIAR? Heritage birds don’t look old—or any different from supermarket...
First things first: We’re not talking about a huge tub of movie-theater popcorn. That kind of popcorn is awful for you. The popped corn kernels are a beard for a Big-Gulp-size serving of butter and salt—a combo platter of fat and sodium that will leave your arteries...
Just when you thought you’d heard of every diet trend, someone starts putting poop in a pill. To be fair, the poop isn’t intended to make you skinny—yet. For now it’s a treatment against c. difficile, a nasty gut bacteria that kills 14,000 Americans a year. Scientists...