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Does the idea of devouring ants or wasp larvae make your stomach turn? Chef Jacob Brown hopes to convert diners to plates full of pests. "Why not? They taste good," says Brown, who adds that eating them is good for the environment. At Wellington's The Larder restaurant, the award-winning chef and sustainability champion cooked up a fine dining degustation menu featuring as many pests as he could find and legally use: jellyfish, ants, wasps, gorse, pine, wallaby, wild pork and Canadian geese, to name a few. At the sold-out Wellington on a Plate event on Tuesday night, the 50 diners...

UberEats: Where they cancel your order after making you wait an hour and a half, then change your name to “Bitch” when you complain. Nope, that’s not the tagline for the worst “Shark Tank” pitch in history. That’s what actually happened to Caitlin Reardon after she placed an order for burritos. The 25-year-old San Francisco resident told HuffPost she and her roommate ordered some Mission-style burritos for out-of-town visitors on Monday night, but grew frustrated after more than an hour of waiting. So she did what any normal person would do, and called UberEats to see why her order had...

Remember when Wendy's famously changed their burgers back in 2012? As a whole the burger didn't seem as good to me. It just didn't seem as "hot and juicy" as before. But they changed something else, they changed their pickles. Now I grew up eating McDonalds Hamburgers. NOT Big Macs or McRibs or McSalads. HAMBURGERS. The hamburger came with mustard, catsup, some dehydrated onions and pickles...thin soggy dill pickles to be exact. To me this is what a pickle taste like and what it should be. Wendy's started using a thicker crinkle cut pickle that had a slight sweet flavor....

If you're the type of person who goes to Taco Bell with a full glitter eye, then today's most delicious trend will speak to your soul — or 2 a.m. stomach. After the chain asked for makeup looks inspired by its logo and/or menu, beauty junkies did not disappoint in what they delivered. It doesn't hurt that Taco Bell is practically synonymous with its soft purple lettering. Something about how the franchise's eponymous chime seems to be swaying in its logo just begs for a wing tip. But Taco Bell Makeup is a trend that's anything but mild — these...

Back in January, Food and Wine reported that KFC China would be introducing a facial recognition system that would predict your order (it’s not as creepy as it sounds). Now it looks like the brand is enhancing that technology with additional features. According to Reuters, the system lets customers pay by face, just by approaching one of the store's newly unveiled monitors. The new device is located at a KFC outpost in the city of Hangzhou. The facial recognition system is called Smile to Pay, and it’s being featured at a Yum Brands (the company behind KFC) so-called concept store...

The buttery cheese, named after the word “doormat” for a very specific reason, dates to the 17th century. Naomi Tomky August 15, 2017 When my Quebec City tour guide mentions that the island we’re heading to has the oldest cheese in North America, I’m briefly concerned. A grotesque vision of a 150-year-old pickle my friend Harriet once told me about flashes before my eyes. But, what I learn upon arriving at the Île d'Orléans, 15 minutes from the capital, is that Paillasson is simply the oldest style of cheese in North America—it’s made fresh on the island, tastes extremely good...

Customer says she feels 'poisoned' after discovering meat in vegetarian meal ordered at a local eatery A Jewish woman from Michigan is suing a restaurant for serving her bacon in an omelet that was supposed be meatless. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories FREE SIGN UP That lawsuit was filed on behalf of Angela Montgomery, 30, of Sterling Heights by her attorney Majed Moughni, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. Montgomery is seeking monetary damages for emotional and physical distress caused by eating the bacon. She alleged breach of contract and...

A Dearborn couple is seeking unspecified damages for being served bacon on a pair of sandwiches earlier this summer.A Muslim couple from Dearborn is suing Kentucky Fried Chicken for having recently been served bacon on a chicken sandwiches. An unspecified amount of damages are being sought by the couple, who purchased the sandwiches at a Lincoln Park KFC. They allege cheese and bacon were added to the sandwiches after they requested cheese only, according to a Detroit Free Press report. In May, a Dearborn man of Muslim faith sued Little Caesars for $100 million after he was allegedly served and...

Deep in the Tuscan countryside, between a hill and a bleating sheep, Gianluca Tonelli tended to 17 pounds of pastrami soaking in a plastic container filled with brine. With his trademark porkpie hat and gray goatee, Mr. Tonelli, a worshiper of what he called “pastrami culture” — “We started a klezmer band!” — sidestepped Dante, his family’s pet pig, and loaded freshly chopped cherry wood chips into a smoker. In the house, he showed off heavy-duty cooking devices, including a pressure cooker in which he aromatizes the pastrami with cloves and Tuscan red wine, before selling it from a bright...

Anyone sick and tired of this submission? What are they afraid of militant Buddhists? LIDL AIRBRUSHES CHRISTIAN CROSS FROM CHURCH PICTURED ON ITS GREEK FOOD RANGE BECAUSE THE SUPERMARKET CHAIN ‘DOES NOT WISH TO EXCLUDE ANY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS’ The supermarket chain has come under fire for altering its new ‘Eridanous’ rangeShoppers say the Anastasis Church had its cross removed from packagingCustomers have taken to social media to vent their frustration at Lidl By Charlie Bayliss For Mailonline, 4 September 2017: Lidl has defended its decision to airbrush Christian symbols from its packaging, claiming the supermarket wants to remain ‘religiously...

[snip] J.C. Spencer said the moment calling Chick-fil-A was hilarious to him. "We had to get out of there so I called Chick-fil-A, now that sounds kind of funny," J.C. Spencer said in an interview on "Good Morning America" Wednesday. "I ordered two grilled chicken burritos with extra egg and a boat. And can you believe that one of the managers of Chick-fil-A, she sent her husband to pick us up and we are so grateful."

Judi and I were honored to be asked to judge a cannoli/waffle eating contest at Pier Village on Sunday. It was a picture perfect summer day. The beach was packed. People in bathing suits walking around everywhere. And the line was out the door at Coney Waffle in Long Branch. The owners Joe and Mike revived their mom’s old waffle machine from Coney Island in Brooklyn. They filled two hot dog bun shaped waffles with cannoli cream and WOW! About a dozen brave men and one woman stepped on stage to see who could eat in three minutes. Needless to...

The greasy sizzle of delicious meat on a grill is a staple of every Labor Day weekend. But as everyone breaks out the barbecue grill, paper plates, and “Kiss the Cook” aprons, a debate older than charcoal briquettes rages in the minds of grillmasters everywhere, along with their hungry audience: Do you want a burger? Or a hot dog? (“Both” is certainly an option, but not for the purposes of this showdown.) Vegetarian? I’m so sorry. Competition Both burgers and hot dogs can be prepared in quite a few ways, whether by grilling, broiling, pan frying, or in the case...

Residue from pots found in a Sicilian cave show grape wine was produced 3,000 years earlier than thought 6,000-year-old wine storage jars found in a Sicilian cave. (Dr. Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida) By Jason Daley SMITHSONIAN.COM AUGUST 31, 2017 99024091.3K Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello—Italian wines are some of the best in the world. And there’s a reason for that: They've been making it for thousands of years. Now, a new find suggests they've been at it even longer than people thought. As Lorenzo Tondo at The Guardian reports, researchers have found traces of 6,000-year-old wine in a Sicilian cave....

When Shayda Habib heard that people near her Sugar Land, Texas Pizza Hut were stranded in their homes and running low on food, she knew what she should do

No ring of the doorbell, just a text. No tip for the driver? No problem in this test, where Domino's and Ford are teaming up to see if customers will warm to the idea of pizza delivered by driverless cars. Starting Wednesday, some pizzas in Domino's hometown of Ann Arbor will arrive in a Ford Fusion outfitted with radars and a camera that is used for autonomous testing. A Ford engineer will be at the wheel, but the front windows have been blacked out so customers won't interact with the driver. Instead, people will have to come out of their...

This lobster looks like a shining pearl of the sea. Maine fisherman Alex Todd caught the rare white lobster on Aug. 24. “I’ve never seen a white one. This one was translucent with just a hint of blue in it,” Todd, 48, of Chebeague Island, told ABC News. The seasoned seaman threw the lobster back into the ocean after noticing it was a female and had been marked for carrying eggs.

In the not-so-distant future, people hungry for a Big Mac will be able to get one without ever talking to a person. The new McDonald’s in Arkansas City, which just opened at the end of July, is the first in the area to have one of the company’s new self-serve, touch-screen ordering kiosks. But the machines will start rolling out in Wichita soon, starting with the restaurant at 21st and Ridge that’s undergoing a remodel. It should be ready, self-serve kiosk and all, within the next six weeks, said Michael Lane of Lane Enterprises. “They’re going to roll out nationally...

Over the course of one week this summer, I counted a staggering 61 local job openings posted on Craigslist under “Food/Beverage/Hospitality.” Line cooks, bartenders, sandwich makers, hostesses, servers, prep cooks, baristas, sushi chefs, dishwashers and cashiers were all needed across Santa Cruz County, from Scotts Valley to Watsonville. The long list of available jobs confirmed what I had been hearing from people in the restaurant industry for more than a year. One sous chef and kitchen manager I know, for example, has been pulling doubles and working six days in a row—or more—for months, unable to find suitable line cooks...

Jazz drummer T.S. Monk, the son of jazz great Thelonious Monk and administrator of the late pianist's estate, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Fort Bragg, Calif.-based North Coast Brewing Company over its popular abbey ale, Brother Thelonious. North Coast has been brewing Brother Thelonious for over ten years. The lawsuit states that the Monk estate had given verbal permission to North Coast to use Thelonious Monk's image in the sale of the beer in exchange for the brewery's agreement to donate some profits to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, a nonprofit jazz education program with locations in Washington D.C....