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It’s that time of the year again. It is finally starting to get cold, and the New Oxford American Dictionary is preparing for the holidays by making its biggest announcement of the year. The 2007 Word of the Year is (drum-roll please) ‘locavore’; a trend in using locally grown, seasonal ingredients.
Andrew Smith helps us learn about Halloween.
On August 19, 1856 Gail Borden patented Condensed Milk.
Andrew Smith, editor of the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, is here to test your knowledge of barbecuing in America.
Ben’s Place of The Week is Taku, River.
A Hamburger quiz for you meat-lovers.
Someone pass me four advils and a bucket of your finest coffee. If life appears sluggish around here, it’s because last night Oxford threw a launch party to celebrate the publication of The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. Even our ironic trucker hats can’t hide these hangovers. Contrary to popular belief, we publishing […]
Andrew Smith, our go-to American Food guru is back again this week with a look at American food trends. What trend do you think has been, and will be, the most influential: Fast Food, Slow Food, Factory Farms or Organic Farms?
Andrew Smith helps us weigh in on American food personalities.
Who is your favorite culinary icon who never lived?
Party with OUP at BEA!
Last year, as part of its employer-branding strategy to woo the best staff, it displayed posters with the slogan “McProspects — over half of our executive team started in our restaurants. Not bad for a McJob.”
A podcast from the DNB.
The Oxford Companion to Wine helps us learn about ice wine and Icewine.
Read the pie entry from the Oxford Companion To Food.
Amid all the stuffing, turkey, and pumpkin pie it’s useful to reflect for a moment on precisely what we celebrate on Thanksgiving Day. Every American knows the story of the First Thanksgiving: seeking religious freedom, the Pilgrims established a colony at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Native Wampanoag taught them how to plant corn and hunt. When the crops were harvested, the Pilgrims celebrated the First Thanksgiving by gobbling up turkeys, saucing cranberries, mashing corn, and squashing pumpkins to make pies.