Pictures of Food Are Not Helping Your Restaurant
Some takeout restaurants choose to decorate their menus with large, unappetizing photographs of their food. Not a good idea.
Eat Like the Stars: A Course-by-Course Golden Globes Menu Analysis
The best thing about Golden Globes night is that it provides dinner to a roomful of stars who otherwise could not afford to feed themselves. The celebs sit smushed elbow-to-elbow at round dinner tables and the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton looks like an Olive Garden the ad sales department has rented…
Finally, A Place Where Vegans Won’t Inconvenience Everybody: Mars
For years, the only thing keeping Earth from jettisoning all of its vegan inhabitants into outer space has been vegans' persistent whine, "I can't go there. They don't have anything vegan."
Your Ultimate Oscar Party Menu
The Oscars are on Sunday and today is Tuesday, meaning you need to start planning your menu for the party. Luckily we're here to give you some ideas for the perfect awards show feast, all based on this year's nominees!
LiLo Will Be Eating Turkey Casserole This Evening
Lindsay Lohan's dinner tonight: turkey casserole with noodles, coleslaw, apple sauce, wheat bread, and milk.
George Stephanopoulos' New Career Path
In your spirited Wednesday media column: George Stephanopoulos should listen to his kids, Conde Nast forswears frequency cuts, France has a wacky newspaper scheme, and we have the menu for GQ's dinner tonight.
Pope Birthday Cheese Selection Revealed!
A restaurant owner in DC writes an essay about the experience of hosting the Pope's birthday party. He started planing the event six months in advance. He ordered a 12 square-foot cake in the shape of St. Peter's Square that was too beautiful to cut. He even flew to Italy just to get the plates made! The lunch menu…
Never Too Much Quiche In the 'Times' Cafeteria
Dear Timesperson: Do you feel a little meh? Slightly gassy? A bit eggy? It may be your work diet! The New York Times cafeteria menu, we notice, features four kind of quiche four out of five days. Sure there's other choices, but that's a heckuva lot of quiche and perhaps too much. Only on Friday does the quiche station…
