Taste of America

Josh Ozersky

Brewing Business: Can Kickstarter Create A New Food Economy?

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My new crowd-funded coffee pot got me thinking

Josh Ozersky

Celebrity or Chef? You Can’t Really Be Both

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The farther chefs gravitate away from the kitchen, the less culinary value they have

Josh Ozersky

Eat It or Else! The New Culture of Culinary Coercion

Roasted Capon with chestnut stuffing, savoy cabbage and honey poached cranberries by French Laundry Executive Sous Chef Phil Tessier, December 17, 2011

Restaurant diners are increasingly being told “no substitutions”

Josh Ozersky

The “Artisan” Hoax: Has That Word Become Meaningless?

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When Domino’s and Frito-Lay start referring to their products as artisanal, you know they’re taking absurd liberties. But does it matter?

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Beyond Pot Brownies: The New Cannabis Cuisine

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Sophisticated cooking with weed has, until recently, been a well-kept secret. But oh the pesto risotto!

Josh Ozersky

7 Foods You Really Should Eat Before You Die

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The food list that’s gone viral, 100 Foods to Eat Before You Die, is lame. Here’s a much better one

Josh Ozersky

The Problem With The American Steakhouse

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A relic whose time has passed, the steakhouse is the last place anybody who really loves beef should go

Josh Ozersky

Are Foodie Kids the Sign of End Times?

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Maybe not, but get them out of the restaurant and into the kitchen

Josh Ozersky

What’s Wrong With A Dunkin’ Donuts Bagel?

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New Yorkers chortled when Consumer Reports gave a bagel from Dunkin’ Donuts the thumbs up, but food snobism is an ugly attitude.

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Chefs Are Taking Nature Worship Too Far

Indigenous guide Clifford Coulthard and world's top chef Rene Redzepi, of Danish restaurant Noma, forage for food in the South Australian outback on October 3, 2010.

Hunting and gathering has its appeal, but however wild your ingredients, cuisine will never be “natural”

Josh Ozersky

Pink Slime and the Problem of Viral Campaigns

Will clicking a Like button or forwarding an e-mail really change the world? That depends

Josh Ozersky

The American Way of Eating: The Book Foodies—and Rush Limbaugh—Are Fretting About

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Journalist Tracie McMillan takes us deep into the heart of American eating, and what she finds might turn your stomach

Recipes for the Black-Iron Heart of America

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A new cookbook reminds us of the age-old glories of cast iron

Josh Ozersky

What Would a Test-Tube Hamburger Taste Like?

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Some lucky person could be eating lab-grown meat as early as this fall. Here’s why I don’t want that person to be me

Josh Ozersky

Why I Won’t Be Boycotting Chick-Fil-A

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Companies have a right to do what they want with their profits, even if it’s something as indefensible as supporting anti-gay initiatives