We’re big fans of Mr. Brown around these parts, despite his occasional veering towards preciousness. His new show Feasting on Asphalt sounds fun, as Alton travels around the country sampling food and dispensing pre-scripted wisdom via voiceover. In fact, we’re almost certain we’ll like it, because it sounds nearly identical to his previous series Good [...]

The two-halves of a lobster’s shell grow independently of each other, leading to the rare occasion when a pigment defect affects only half a shell. This particular specimen was caught by lobsterman Alan Robinson in Dyer’s Bay, Maine, who rightly thought, “somebody was playing a joke on me.”
In case you’re wondering, it’s the left-hand side [...]

Unlike Elko County, Idaho native Eddie Murphy, most of us won’t make it to be 105 years old. But if we’re going to take a crack at it, we could do worst than to follow Murphy’s lead:
The secret to his longevity, he said, was no secret at all: “Just hard work — Ranching, mostly.”
“He liked [...]

I appreciate the sentiment behind Sweet Meats, a set of stuffed, plush hunks of meat, but $30 for a ham? They do realize that costs more than actual meat, right? So be charmed by their cuteness—who can resist a hand-stitched “Racka Ribs?”—but wait until these guys get over themselves and start selling the whole set [...]

It’s a vestige of the violence process from which we evolved. It’s a daily reminder of our domineering present. And it’s our delicious, lattice-grown future.
It’s meat—the inaugural week-long theme of Dethroner.com.
Developed in 1938 by Swiss chemists at the Sandoz Laboratories for potential psychiatric uses, meat was quickly adapted for a variety of purposes. It first [...]

Some men have sworn off hair care products as symptomatic of our neurotically style-conscious society, which is like, right, but also really gross. I know it may seem strange to some of you to wash the oil and dirt from your hair, then immediately reapply something oil- or dirt-like, but just trust me on this [...]

As a solemn acknowledgment of my recently discovered Scottish heritage (not to mention this foray into self-proprietorship), I have been scrimping where I can, like at the laundromat. A couple of years ago, when we lived in DUMBO, we had a door-to-door pickup service, where we’d stuff our filthy clothes into a bag, call up [...]

There’s a reason that beer and wine go so well with cheese and chocolate: all are a reduction of larger quantities of goodness into small quantities of greatness. I once had a selection of fresh bleu cheese paired with Belgian beers so boiling with yeast and bacteria that it nearly knocked my immune system clean [...]