…and that is where bacon comes from. This video is just a teaser from a full-on, multimedia, iPad exclusive bacon bible, “The Better Bacon Book: Make, Cook, and Eat Your Way to Cured Pork Greatness.” Of course this video summons forth the mental image of a neophyte cook crouched over…
The item demonstrated above is the AeroShot breathable caffeine device. Housed within a space-age shotgun shell, the AeroShot webpage claims that it packs 100mg of caffeine and B vitamins. It further promises to provide, “All of the energy. None of the other stuff.” By other stuff we presume they mean…
It’s going to be another busy weekend for Valley foodies! The Aloha Festival is at Tempe Town Lake, Devoured is at the Phoenix Art Museum, The Litchfield Park Art & Culinary Festival is happening at the Wigwam Resort, and there are tons of new places to eat and drink. I…
Responsible snacking is for the birds. As ‘mericans we should be able to consume as many calories as we possibly can in one sitting. No one is going to take that right away from us! But our right to gorge ourselves on 600 calorie chocolate bars is being threatened. Mars…
Now that fast food companies have ditched the bright pink ammonia-treated meat goop AKA “Pink Slime,” there seems to be an unused abundance of the stuff. So where’s all that disgusting pink goo going to go? To feed hungry dogs in shelters? In the trash? Or maybe meat companies will just…
Remember two and half years ago or so when Disney released “The Princess and The Frog”? It starred the company’s very first black princess, Tiana, and it was relatively successful despite the controversy over the princess’s original name and occupation. (They were all set to name her Maddy and have…
This Saturday (March 10th) at 1 p.m. Whole Foods across the globe (including our Tempe, Scottsdale, and Chandler locations) will be simultaneously cracking into wheels of their 24-month old Parmigiano Reggiano AKA Really Damn Good Cheese. As you can see in the video above, it’s going to be cheese-tastic. You…
Caramelpalooza is tonight in the Smeeks parking lot at 7 p.m. sharp. Again, that’s TONIGHT! Yours truly will be there judging all 18 (hopefully) delicious treats and you should probably show up, too, because there is going to be a ton of caramel and it’s free. And that’s all I…
The Story of Sushi from Bamboo Sushi on Vimeo. Clear four minutes of your day and hit play on this amazing little video. The Story of Sushi tells a sad tale of the sushi industry and the future of our oceans if we continue on the same commercial fishing path…
Not really. Drew kinda seems like the white wine swilling type. Actress, producer, director, Covergirl, Playboy model, Drew Barrymore, known for her role in movie classics such as E.T., Firestarter, Boys on the Side, 50 First Dates, and as Brian the Dog’s girlfriend on the animated television series Family Guy, has…
Remember back in January when our favorite food critic, Laura Hahnefeld, predicted the rise and fall of the food truck? She said something about how fast food companies would start jumping on the mobile kitchen bandwagon and it looks like her crystal gazing was spot on. Turns out, fast food…
Bacon pizza, bacon candles, chocolate covered bacon, bacon cupcakes, bacon scarves, bacon jewelry, bacon ornaments, bacon wrapped EVERYTHING, bacon salad bowls, bacon on your dog, bacon sleeping bags, bacon vodka, felt bacon, bacon wallpaper, bacon wrapping paper, keep calm and eat bacon, maple bacon ale, bacon donuts, bacon salt, candied…
It’s another busy, beautiful weekend. Spring is in the air and festival season is almost in full force. This weekend, get out of the house and enjoy what our lovely city has to offer! Eat This: Japanese Food at the Arizona Matsuri Festival — Three stages full of live Japanese…
This Sunday, the celebrities will be hittin’ the red carpet for the 84th Annual Acadamy Awards — and they’ll also be hitting the after parties. One particularly popular event is the Governors Ball. Wolfgang Puck will be the head chef for the event but instead of the typical extravagant celebrity…
And we thought we were all about the caramel (-palooza, that is). Check out this caramel dragon “painting,” created on the street in China. Follow Chow Bella on Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest. …
http://www.etsy.com/shop/littlefruitbat What we imagine a test-tube hamburger looks like. Over the weekend, a Dutch scientist announced he’s found a way to mimic the creation of meat in a test-tube — with the goal of eliminating the entire meat production industry. He says the “meat,” made of cow stem cells, will…
Whoa. Maggot filled cans of mushrooms? Paint chemical filled salad dressings? Bread filled with human hair and duck feathers?I wish it was possible to un-read a list. Especially the one that I happened to stumble upon over the weekend. It listed fifteen of the grossest foods around and there’s a…
This weekend is going to be a busy one! Arizona Beer Week starts tomorrow; Cocktail Week starts Sunday; Jennifer Woods is teachin’ class at the Public Market; Kitchen 56 is celebrating their first anniversary. It’s all good stuff but a girl only has so much time and her liver can…
Pardon us, we overslept this morning. I heard a little rumor yesterday via HuffingtonPost.com that popular ice cream hustlers Ben & Jerry are going Greek next week with the release of a new line of frozen Greek yogurt. A tweet from their shop in Manchester, New Hampshire stated that three…
Who knew that watching someone turn a slab of pork into chops really fast could be so interesting?! Maybe it helps when the soundtrack is Jay Z’s “The Takeover.”…
You may have already seen what I think is the cutest commercial since those adorable hamsters dancing to the black sheep. It’s also one of the saddest and most heartfelt commercial that I have seen in a very long time. It’s been making its way around design websites over the…
This is sure turning out to be an interesting year for Valentine’s Day gifts. Screw the flowers, the fancy dinners and the chocolates — this year the ladies want testicle pie and …..
