Chef’s Night Out: Roberta’s
Roberta’s, the pizza-centric restaurant in Brooklyn, has become so popular that Jay-Z and Beyonce are regular diners. But Roberta’s had humble beginnings as a pizza place in a neighborhood that people...
View ArticleHow You Can Get Food Poisoning from Food You Didn’t Even Eat
Imagine a time when staring at a cake will make you fat, thinking about a delicate rosé will get you white-girl wasted, and simply uttering the phrase “space-vape mad astro-weed” will turn your...
View ArticleA Montreal Sugar Baby’s International Guide to Eating Well
A sugar baby is a young male or female who is financially pampered and cared for by a sugar daddy or sugar mommy in exchange for companionship. Welcome back to Sugar Babies, a column about sugar babies...
View ArticleThis Week in Food Porn: Oysters, Dutch Pancakes, and Super Mario Mushrooms
Can’t get out of bed in the morning? Try breakfast. Feeling a little flat in the middle of the day? Give lunch a go. Got no reason to head home after dark? Hey, have you considered dinner? Because this...
View ArticleThe Ocean Contains Less Food for You Than 50 Years Ago
October is National Seafood Month, but a new study published by the World Wildlife Fund suggests you probably shouldn’t celebrate with a seafood tower. The WWF’s Living Blue Planet Report found that...
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Oyster Shuckers Gone Wild!
I’m backstage at the Shiny Sea Oyster Shucking Championships, one of the highlights of the Shellfish Festival, held every September in Prince Edward Island. I’m surrounded by shuckers. One of them, a...
View ArticleOysters Gregory
This baked oyster recipe is packed with bacon, tarragon, and lemon that echoes the New England coastline where it comes from.
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You’ve Got to Hunt for Your Own Steak in the Australian Outback
To get to the remote Western Australian town of Roebourne, you must board a plane from Perth bound 1500 km north for Karratha, which will get you to the country’s fastest-growing mining town. There,...
View ArticleHow-To: Make Seafood Beer n’ Clamato with Campo Baja
In this episode, the guys from Campo Baja down in Mexico City show us how to make the perfect hangover cure. All you need is some hot sauce, dried shrimp, fresh oysters, and tomato juice—and, of...
View ArticleA Truck Containing 40,000 Pounds of Burger Meat Has Disappeared
Two weeks ago, a truck pulled into the Nicholas Meatpacking plant near near Loganton, Pennsylvania for its scheduled pick-up of 20 tons of ground beef. That’s roughly $110,000 worth of burger meat, all...
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Gifts for People Who Have Everything
‘Tis the season to give and get gifts. But why stick to stale candy canes stuck in a stained mug that says “World’s #2 Dad” when you could get something that, well, doesn’t suck? To wit, we here at...
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This Wine Bar Isn’t for Snobs
In an 18th century building on Lamb’s Conduit Street, London stands the newly opened Noble Rot Restaurant and Wine Bar. With its symmetrical bay windows and deep purple paint, the frontage is...
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How a Former Poker Player Became an Expert Oyster Farmer
Oysters are usually farmed in the ocean, but in the Dutch province of Zeeland, an oyster farm has decided to try its luck away from open water. For the past few years, they have been farming oysters...
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Bask in the Endless Summer of Mexican Food
Around the time of New York’s version of hell—the fourteenth snowstorm of last winter—I realized I could see my entire vascular system through my skin and had nearly lost my mind for lack of sun. There...
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The Gala Dinner at the Forgers Club
Welcome back to Stranger Than Flicktion, our Flickr-inspired column. We provide writers with five random food-related Flickr images and ask them to construct a fictional short story in under five days....
View ArticleChef’s Night Out: Roberta’s
Roberta’s, the pizza-centric restaurant in Brooklyn, has become so popular that Jay-Z and Beyonce are regular diners. But Roberta’s had humble beginnings as a pizza place in a neighborhood that people...
View ArticleOysters Gregory
1. Shuck the oysters, saving the bottom shell and meat separately. Clean out shells and set aside. Refrigerate oyster meat covered with plastic wrap until ready to use.2. Preheat a grill pan or saute...
View ArticleHow-To: Make Seafood Beer n’ Clamato with Campo Baja
In this episode, the guys from Campo Baja down in Mexico City show us how to make the perfect hangover cure. All you need is some hot sauce, dried shrimp, fresh oysters, and tomato juice—and, of...
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Meet the Man Who Invented Sexless Oysters
Oysters are the most sexual creatures in the animal kingdom: their flesh literally morphs into a reproductive organ during the spawning season, which in Australia, runs from around December to...
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VICE Eats World: Brooklyn Pizza Wars and Korean Barbecue
At MUNCHIES, we obviously love to eat. But it’s not just us who’s keen on stuffing our faces: The rest of the VICE staff—who are scattered all over the planet working on stories, projects, and...
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