Achieving a blistering, restaurant-quality pizza crust in your home oven requires high, sustained heat that a sheet pan can’t deliver. Pizza stones and steels solve this problem by absorbing heat and transferring it directly into the dough, mimicking the effects of a commercial brick or wood fire pizza oven. To find the absolute best options,
With hash browns, my order totaled $18.86 before tax and tip. The same seven items cost $16.88 at Cracker Barrel and $18.58 at IHOP, so Denny’s came out pricier than both. All three chains felt like a solid value for the amount of food I got, but in my opinion, Denny’s provided the biggest bang
Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes. They are all now owned by the same Italian company. Best known for Nutella and Ferrero Rocher chocolates, Ferrero has spent much of the past decade buying established American food brands and investing in US manufacturing. The privately held company now has more than 50 brands in its
The former CEO of Taco Bell says McDonald’s new drink menu lacks originality. Greg Creed, who served as Taco Bell’s chief marketing officer when the chain introduced the popular “Baja Blast” drink over 20 years ago, shared some feedback this week on McDonald’s new menu of “refresher” drinks. “Any brand could have come up with
It’s tempting to order take-out or make a frozen pizza for dinner, but making a restaurant-quality dish at home isn’t as much of a hassle as you might think. Just ask chef and Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli. When I interviewed her in February 2021, she told me cauliflower “steak” is one of her go-to
Longevity isn’t only about what you eat. Social connection has been widely linked to longevity, and it can be as powerful as diet and other lifestyle factors people obsess over — and I believe a handwritten card is connection you can hold. Fortunately, Trader Joe’s has a great selection of blank greeting cards for just
