Food and Cooking

The closest Taco Bell to Bethel, Alaska is almost 400 miles away in Anchorage. That’s why the town’s 6,200 residents were so excited last month when flyers announcing the chain’s arrival in Bethel began popping up.

But it wasn’t to be. The pamphlet was a hoax, put up by a soulless prankster as a way of getting back at a rival by making their phone number the number to call for a job at the make believe new fast food restaurant.

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Want to avoid skin cancer? Have another cup of joe. A new study finds coffee guzzlers are less likely to develop the most common type of the disease.

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The sun is out, your friends are over and the kids are splashing around in the pool. Ah yes, it’s summertime, and you’re just dying to break out your grill or smoker and throw an amazing barbeque party in your backyard, at the beach, or wherever you happen to be.

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Sure there is the odd cheese-hater out there, but for the most part we can all agree that a slice of the dairy product is only going to make a burger better.

Yet the folks at KFC have managed to screw that up. The ad pictured here — which is the embodiment of “you’re doing it wrong” — features a new chicken sandwich being offered at the fast food chain’s locations in the Philippines.

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In honor of International Chicken Wing Day Sunday, I'd like to share with you my homemade Buffalo Chicken Wings recipe. Where can you get the best wings in Utica? Who has them? How do you like them? Spicy? Mild? What are your favorites? My friends all say my Buffalo wings are the best. Here's why:

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Before I made a trip back home to Michigan, I was talking to my co-worker Dave from Oldiez 96 about products you can find in Michigan that we don't have in Central New York.  One that came to mind was Detroit-made Faygo brand soft drinks.  I decided to bring home two bottles of their more interesting flavors, Rock & Rye and Red Pop for Dave to sample.

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The Soda Fountain in Remsen visited the radio station today to bring samples of Summer menu including a Caribbean Island Salad and BBQ Pulled Pork.

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Food manufacturers and supermarkets like to advertise that their meals are healthy. But there can be only one “healthiest” meal, and British scientists have looked through 4,000 health claims in an effort to determine what that would be.

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In today’s health-conscious age, it seems a given that chain restaurants would share nutritional information to better inform their customers. And yet, several pizza restaurants, including Domino’s, Papa John’s, Little Caesars, Godfather’s Pizza and Pizza Hut, have banded together to fight legislation requiring them to post calorie content right on their menus.

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Look out, New Yorkers — Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Board of Health aren’t just after your large sodas. Now they want your bucket-sized popcorn and jumbo milkshakes, too.

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If you’re anything like us, you probably assume that fast food is cheaper than home-cooked meals. But, as this infographic going around Facebook shows, nothing could be further from the truth.

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For the first time, Domino’s Pizza racked up $1 billion in digital sales during a one-year period — and to celebrate, the chain is giving you half-off any pizza ordered online or using one of its apps.

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