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It’s late at night, you’re alone, maybe there were a couple of glasses of wine with dinner. You’re too lazy to get off the couch, too awake to sleep. You’re flipping through channels and then something catches your eye. A miracle product, a shiny gadget, promising to change your life for the better for only a few easy…
Andrew Zimmern, whose stomach has hosted more animals than Noah’s Ark, has made a career vicariously eating on behalf of the unadventurous among us. On Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods, Zimmern seeks out food cultural traditions in the locales he visit, and if it means snacking on fresh cow placenta or a still-beating…
If you’re familiar with this site, you might have read accounts of my various trials and tribulations regarding baking. Suffice it to say, I find it really, really difficult, and fail at least as many times as I succeed. But even I couldn’t help but be heartened after watching a few episodes of Nailed It!, the new…
There was a sizable “bacon boom” a few years ago, a spell where the country fell head over heels for those sizzling strips. But long before it got its own cookbooks, bacon was a reliable staple of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, so much so that it regularly wiggled its way into our TVs and earbuds. Because we love bacon…
By now we are as well versed in Game Of Thrones beer as some are in the fantasy series itself, with Brewery Ommegang continuing to release new editions of tie-in beverages at a rate that has surely left George R.R. Martin jealous, wondering why he can’t just write beers instead of books. So for this fourth chapter of…
In celebration of Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary, the long-running sketch show has been feted with all sorts of honorific tie-ins, ranging from the conventional (a 433-hour marathon on VH1) to the stiffly ceremonial (a museum exhibit) to the completely ridiculous (Saks Fifth Avenue’s “SNL…
As a publicity stunt for The Walking Dead premiere in London earlier this fall, chef Jim Thomlinson researched the taste of actual human flesh, reading accounts of famous cannibals William Seabrook and Issei Sagawa, in order to create a burger that approximated the taste. (Thomlinson did not, as far as we know,…
The Adventures Of Pete And Pete has long been both an A.V. Club staff favorite and a sort of weird ’90s kid rallying call. So it’s been our great pleasure to become friendly with Danny Tamberelli and Michael C. Maronna, otherwise known as the show’s two brothers Pete. The chummy redheads were in Chicago for a live…
Yesterday, Kurt Braunohler completed the roughly 925-mile trek from Chicago to New Orleans—and he did it all by jet ski. He’s trying to raise $50,000 to send 500 goats and 1,000 chickens to African families in need—an Indiegogo fundraising effort that Braunohler describes as “the dumbest way to make the world a better…
Much of Marc Summers’ on-camera career has involved items strange, edible, and strangely edible: Double Dare slime, the whipped-cream pies of What Would You Do?, or the many, many snacks profiled on Unwrapped. Archie McPhee, meanwhile, is a Seattle-based purveyor of strange and occasionally edible novelties, offering…
It was meant to be—a product tie-in so perfect that there was really no way they couldn’t make it: HBO’s Tru Blood carbonated drink. For those who haven’t watched the series (or read the books), let me catch you up: There are lots of vampires. They live openly alongside mankind, thanks to the invention of Tru Blood, a…
