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A Global Food Map of the World’s Best Restaurants, According to People Who Eat for a Living

A Global Food Map of the World’s Best Restaurants, According to People Who Eat for a Living

We can all relate to the pre-trip scramble for restaurant recommendations: You scour destination guides, text acquaintances who know the place, revisit articles you’ve bookmarked over the past year. You do whatever it takes to ensure that, once you get where you’re going—whether it’s Paris, Dakar, or Bangkok—you don’t waste a single meal. After all, the promise of new flavors is reason alone to travel…


Secrets Behind The Inflight Meal

We all have a love/hate relationship with the inflight meal. Sometimes it’s a necessity on a long-haul flight or sometimes something to look forward to (if you are lucky enough to be flying business class.) The offering is different depending on the length of flight, the class of travel, and the airline itself…


What Restaurant Reviewing Taught Me About Cooking at Home

Most of us learn to cook by first watching other people do it. Perhaps you’re a son whose mom made blue-ribbon pies, or a daughter with a dad who slung pizzas at his own father’s pizza parlor. Or anyone, anywhere, who once asked someone cooking over their stove, “So, how much salt did you just add?”…


How the Prison Food System Denies People Healthy Choices

For my entire adult life, I’ve been haunted by a family history of heart disease. My father and uncle died of massive heart attacks at ages 46 and 27. I’ll turn 29 this year, and though that means I’m fortunate enough to have outlived my uncle, the premature deaths in my family are a constant reminder that my biological clock is ticking way too fast…


What Happens If You Accidentally Eat Mold? Food Safety Experts Break It Down

It happens to the best of us: You distractedly eat a piece of cheese from your fridge, only to realize as you’re snacking on the last of it that it’s moldy…


How to Cook Rice: The Best, Easiest Methods

Even if you’re not part of the majority of the world’s population that eats rice daily, chances are high that you’ve eaten the staple ingredient in recent memory. And if you bothered to click on and start reading an article on how to cook it, chances are very high that you liked it!…


A Robot Chef Cooks All the Pasta in This New Tokyo Restaurant

If you finish a bowl of pasta at Tokyo’s newly opened E Vino Spaghetti restaurant and want to say thank you to the chef, don’t bother: all eight of its noodle dishes are being prepared by an automated robot. The AI-powered chef, which was co-developed by Japanese cafe operator Pronto Corporation and robotics firm TechMagic, can not only boil water and cook pasta, but it can also clean up after itself…