This morning was business as usual at the Park Slope Food Co-Op following last night's contentious meeting. Supporters of a boycott on Israeli products were handily defeated, with 1,005 members voting against and 653 voting for a full referendum on the issue. Today, most members were just happy to put the issue behind them, and on Union Street, the ubiquitous Park Slope stroller pushers have replaced anti-Israel picketers. more ›

Imagine you couldn't eat french fries, pizza, bread, milk, ice cream, meat, and peanut butter—and imagine you had to talk about it on Anderson Cooper's daytime show. That is what life is like for 9-year-old Joshua from NY, who suffers from a rare disease called eosinophilic esophagitis, which essentially leaves him unable to eat anything but baby food, applesauce and the occasional lollipop. more ›

A NJ cop responding to a 3 a.m. panic alarm at a 7-Eleven in Bridgeton, NJ found a woman attacking a 7-Eleven employee. And apparently the woman was driven into a rage because...there were no hot sausages at the store. more ›

The critically-acclaimed—and tough to get into—Brooklyn restaurant-in-a-grocery, Brooklyn Fare, will expand to Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal reports owner Moe Issa "has signed a lease for a space on 39th Street between Ninth and 10th avenues and aims to open by June or July." more ›

Paula Deen is feeling "good" and actually exercising these days. The famous butter-lover confirmed that she has had Type 2 Diabetes for years and at this past weekend's South Beach Food and Wine Festival, she told People, "I've dropped two pant sizes!" more ›

When fast food refuses to age, we just can't look away. It's horrifying! Yet here we are again gazing upon it like we're standing in front of the Mona Lisa. This masterpiece was found on Reddit, and shows one jar containing KFC fries and the other containing McDonald's fries, both sealed off in 2008. Here we are just over three years later and the McDonald's fries don't look like they've aged one day. more ›

Santorini Grill, on Grand Street in Williamsburg, had a full week of their "pay what you feel" menu and it's been going pretty well so far. Though we've talked about the logistics already we decided to head over around dinner time yesterday. We talked to the owner, Paula Douralas, who said that so far, "no one's been abusing it" and that, "if it keeps going like this then I'm not stopping." more ›

After dining on choice, home-cooked eats at Zuccotti Park last week, the secret to the protests' delicious menu may be as simple as finding a kitchen to cook in. Collette McLafferty, who lives on Rivington Street in the Lower East Side, has offered up the kitchen to protesters three times to cook for 300 people. "I may not be a millionaire, but I do have a valuable resource to offer, which is my kitchen," she tells the Post. The paper describes the dishes as food "that would make a meat-loving Wall Street banker cringe," but that's only because Wall Street bankers drink the blood of unsuspecting livestock. more ›

[Update below] Until it suddenly closed in August due to lease problems the foodie favorite in a former diner M. Wells could seemingly do no wrong (unless you were GQ's Alan Richman). Luckily, when it shut its doors owners Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis promised that they would be back. And hey! Somebody calling themselves M. Wells Diner has gone and applied for a liquor license in Long Island City! more ›

Not everyone was a fan of Elaine's, the famed Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side that was a regular hangout to many famous New Yorkers (among them Woody Allen). While the place was never really known for its food, the reviews could be vicious: "Restaurant was probably good before Pizza Hut came out, but Pizza Hut has since raised the bar for overpriced Italian food," Grant E. complained. So how will the Yelp users who took to the Internet to semi-anonymously complain about the now-closed restaurant feel hearing that items from the restaurant—as well as souvenirs from the late Elaine Kaufman's apartment—brought in $385,734 at auction this week, an amount that surpassed pre-sale estimates ("Of course the decor is not that exciting"—A.K. on Yelp). more ›

Is Anthony Bourdain going soft? A week after he made his usual waves by ranting about Paula Deen's lowbrow, highly-processed comfort food schtick, the 'Dainiac is backpedaling on his earlier characterization of Deen as "the worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she's proud of the fact that her food is f--king bad for you [...] plus, her food sucks." Now, after taking heat from a populist Deen and former Times dining critic Frank Bruni for alleged "culinary aristocracy," Bourdain is overwhelmed with regret. more ›

Given that those of us who didn't have passage on a giant ark were all supposed to be dead by now, restaurants are scrambling to open their doors to a hungry, sunlight-deprived populace. Unless you HAVE to eat a ready-made meal at Whole Foods (to those people: you have a problem), there's probably a joint nearby that will do the trick. more ›

Yesterday it was announced that crack-pie hotspot Momofuku Milk Bar was moving out of its shared digs with East 13th Street's Ssam Bar and going all the way across the street. And today we find out what's happening in the newly vacated space: duck. A lot of it. Starting next week, Chang and Co., who have previously been best known for their work with pigs, are installing a rotisserie in the former Milk Bar space and turning weekday lunch service at Ssam Bar into a regular ol' duck party, complete with duck over rice, a duck sandwich with duck-liver mousse, duck charcuterie and duck wonton soup. And looking around the city's dining scene, it's becoming clear that Chang isn't the only one going ducking crazy. more ›

The New York Public Library has long been a haven for the niche market of food-obsessed history buffs, maintaining an exhaustive collection of restaurant menus from 1840 to today. But now, they're taking it one step further with the launch of a crowdsourced menu transcription project, in an effort to make their ginormous menu database more digestible (forgive us). more ›

You might think you're being funny when you order dessert and tell your friends you're just "addicted" to chocolate cake, but you have a problem and you need an intervention. According to a new study from Yale, food addiction is an actual disease akin to alcoholism, and distinguishable from people who are just overeaters. And they figured this out by seeing how women react to pictures of milkshakes. more ›

The Daily News is all over this subway eating debate, following up today with an article examining the enforcement, or lack thereof, of litterbugs. In discussing a possible subway food ban earlier this week, an MTA board member blamed the system's rat and track fire problem to food-related litter. But the MTA seems torn over whether to outlaw underground eating, and in the meantime, they're having a harder time cleaning up after all these animals. more ›

It was barely nine months ago, but the days of bees swarming Cipriani Residences downtown seem like a distant memory: according to a new report by the UN, bees are dying out globally, which could mean serious problems for people all over. more ›

Cat photo aficionados I Can Has Cheezburger took some time out of their busy schedule of posting pictures of semi-incomprehensible lolcats to post Food By State, a picture-graphic tutorial that gives each state an edible representation. Some of them make sense (California=Grapes), some are bizarre (Utah=Green Jell-o), and some are too true (Nevada=Buffets). NY was represented by pizza, and although Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia would probably agree with their assessment, others might ask, "but what about our chicken wings, or our all organic bodegas? Shouldn't we have a rainbow-colored flag of different ethnic foods?" But it comes down to the triangle: do you think pizza is really the quintessential NY food? more ›

Remember when breast milk cheese became a thing for a few minutes last year? Well, it's back. Food-Tech interviews Miriam Simun, who they say "created human cheese as a way to engage people in conversation about biotechnology, food systems, and the human body." Her project began at NYU (it's unclear if this was after it was already being served up at NYC's Klee Brasserie), but she has plans to continue her research, so, grab some crackers! more ›

This week, the Department of Consumer Affairs announced the very disconcerting results of the latest fall supermarket inspections, and it turns out we're all getting ripped off: compliance rates have hit an all-time low of 33 percent, and there have been more than 750 charges against supermarkets in the last four months alone. They found that the most common violation was for a lack of item pricing, which according to the DCA resulted in city inspectors getting overcharged a third of the time (it's like their very own mini taxi overcharging scandal!). So in light of that, some are wondering if it's time supermarkets started getting letter grades. more ›

Need to warm up? This story should give you the warm fuzzies (sorry). City Harvest reports (via their Facebook) that "FreshDirect donated approximately 72,000 pounds of food this week after Monday’s snowstorm brought business to a halt on the East Coast." The food would have gone undelivered and to waste otherwise. This is a photo from this morning's 1,000 pound drop off at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in Chelsea. more ›