The question of why peanut butter jars have a shape that makes it difficult to scrape them completely clean is one…

Remember pancake cereal? Cookie cereal? Yes, we only learned about those two weeks ago, but that’s an eternity in…

Update, May 20, 2020: Now Applebee’s is getting in on the restaurant-in-disguise action! Under the name Neighborhood…

Back in the days before fast food, busy urban folks had the Automat. It was essentially a room full of vending…

Update: Immediately after I posted this story, I noticed that the Chicago Tribune had published a story, just 20…

Last week, bars and restaurants in several states across this fair nation began to reopen. The news was filled with…

It is approximately week 2,862 of quarantine. The cost of groceries is heading steadily upward. In many places,…

This morning we learned about Bon Appetit writer Rachel Sugar’s quest to create an Impossible Burger at home. Even…

How bored are you? Have the stories about meat shortages and the environmental unfriendliness of beef and propaganda…

The Bel Aire Diner in Astoria, Queens, has been in business more than 50 years, and it’s not going to be stopped by…

Back in the Beforetimes, a million years ago (all right, February), Takeout contributor John Carruthers undertook a…

Update, May 13, 2020: Inspired by Chicago Pizza Boss owner Giuseppe Badalamenti’s Facebook post of his March Grubhub…

José R. Ralat is probably one of the most envied people in America. This is because of his job: taco editor for Texas…

It’s possible that some of you are missing airline travel right now. You’re yearning to wait in long lines at the…

Memorial Day is in less than two weeks, and you all know what that means: the start of summer! We can all wear our…

When I saw that Waffle House was trending on Twitter this morning, I was afraid. Was there a dramatic change in the W…

Hey, guess what? Insider has gone ahead and created another list that we can fight over. Because that’s what we all…

The giant river prawn is a staple of southeast Asian cuisine. It’s also a very fussy creature. It can live only in…

When El Milagro, Chicago’s finest maker of tortillas, announced last week that it was closing for two weeks, the…

After I posted about the asparamancer yesterday, the British woman who predicts the future by reading the signs in…