On March 16 at 11:15 p.m., a curious e-mail arrives at the Food section from an apparently hungry reader in Falls Church. "I'm originally from Detroit," writes Duane D. Freese, an editorial consultant ...

I just love it when the folks at Snopes.com get their arms around the important topics of today, like, say: The Subservient Chicken. Yes, it's really a sanctioned Burger King marketing ploy, folks.

It’s a scene repeated in myriad nooks and crannies of the global village: The citizens of a country Very Far Away contentedly quaff the local brew at room temperature, blindly stumble about in the ...

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Spring break is over, the home stretch of the semester has begun, and for my fellow seniors, just a few short weeks remain to wrap up the entire college experience. So, to echo the sentiments a wise ...

Raising Chicken, a Southern-style restaurant chain, opened its first Columbus franchise, near Ohio State’s campus. “We do chicken fingers, fries and toast, and we do it better than anybody else,” said ...

The lazy cooking utensil holds a job description so narrow as to render it useless. The fussy springerle mold. The dedicated asparagus steamer. The elaborate tortilla crisper. I have little patience ...

Everybody's got their favorite [fill in the blank] and will gladly argue incessantly that their favorite [fill in the blank] is the best and you're a moron for thinking different. So it is with ...

In the shoebox-sized Uptown, owner Ali Mohammed casually yuks it up with customers while he prepares a steady stream of lunchtime orders. Sure, his Polish Boys and tuna melts are popular. But his four ...