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The list of chefs at the 2024 Austin Food and Wine Festival is here


The list of chefs at the 2024 Austin Food and Wine Festival is here

The Austin Food & Wine Festival has announced its provisional chefs for 2024. The city’s largest food event includes three days of eating and drinking festivities taking place this fall from Friday, November 1 to Sunday, November 3 at Auditorium Shores in Bouldin Creek. Particularly interesting during the main festival program are the fans of […]

Where “AfriCali” author Kiano Moju likes to eat and shop in Los Angeles


Where “AfriCali” author Kiano Moju likes to eat and shop in Los Angeles

Before moving to Los Angeles in 2013, Kiano Moju, a native of Oakland and former Buzzfeed Producer and new cookbook author has embraced a more Americanized version of Thai cuisine. Sticky sweet noodles and rich curries were all she knew during her college years on the East Coast. Everything changed when she left Buzzfeed’s Hollywood […]

How brands like Fly By Jing made it to Walmart


How brands like Fly By Jing made it to Walmart

The last decade has been a golden era for cool foods sold directly to consumers online. Think Fly By Jing, the wildly popular Sichuan chili crisp, or Magic Spoon, the grain-free, low-carb cereal that’s gained cult status. But after achieving their niche cool factor via podcast ads, fancy shopping stores, and rave reviews in food […]

Wally Amos from Hollywood’s famous Amos Cookie Shop died in 1975 at the age of 88


Wally Amos from Hollywood’s famous Amos Cookie Shop died in 1975 at the age of 88

Cookie entrepreneur Wallace “Wally” Amos Jr., also known as Famous Amos, died of complications from dementia at his home in Honolulu, Oahu, on August 13, 2024. Although most people recognize the name from grocery store shelves, Amos opened his first retail store in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard in 1975. Amos opened one of the country’s […]