Food & Drink category, Page 76
Burgh’ers Farkleberry Tart continues sweet donation tradition to Children’s Hospital
In 2019, Burgh’ers Brewing raised contributions totaling $2,642 for UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh’s Free Care Fund. Burgh’ers’ donation came through $2 per sale of each Farkleberry Tart blackberry sour ale. The fund provides care to every child in the region, regardless of a family’s ability to pay. Last year’s...
No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store
NEW YORK — Amazon wants to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, where shoppers can grab milk or eggs and walk out without waiting in line or ever opening their wallets. It’s the latest sign that Amazon is serious about shaking...
Thank Pittsburgh for KFC’s new Chicken & Donuts dishesVideo
Kentucky Fried Chicken released it new Chicken & Donuts dishes this week, and fans nationwide can thank Pittsburgh eaters for the sweet and savory offerings. Last September, KFCs in Pittsburgh and Norfolk, Va., were the test markets for the new dishes. The fried chicken giant tested its Fried Chicken &...
What’s Brewing? How to layer your own Black and Tan
Black and Tan is the name given to a beer with the combination of a pale ale such as Bass, Boulevard or Sierra Nevada layered with a stout such as Guinness or Murphy’s. What’s really fun is that if you can’t decide between ordering a stout or a pale ale,...
Pittsburgh-area fish fries: Where to dig in every week during Lent 2020
It’s about to get fishy around here. It’s the scent and flavor that fuels many a volunteer fire department, church and social club budget for the year — fried fish. The 2020 fish fry season is finally here. Many organizations are gearing up for their annual fundraisers, most beginning on...
Clarifying the carrot confusion
My recent column on carrots brought these letters. And they piqued my curiosity to get more information: Q: I just finished a column by you about carrots in the Fredericksburg Virginia Free Lance Star. I always wondered about baby carrots. Now that you have confirmed that they are cut regular...
Chocolate bar ends hostage situation in Irish prison
Chocolate can do great things. The latest amazing attribute of the sweet treat: peacekeeper. Media outlets in Ireland, including the Irish Post, report that a five-hour standoff with hostages at Midlands Prison in Ireland was brought to a peaceful end when one of two inmates agreed to trade his weapons...
Pittsburgh foodie dishes on best city ‘crawls’
A Pittsburgh native and Mt. Washington resident, Shannon Daly enjoys exploring the city’s neighborhoods, especially its restaurants and watering holes. She often shares her finds on her popular Instagram account, pittsburghplates Her mouth-watering social media posts brought her to the attention of publisher Globe Pequot Press. In May, the company...
Jägermeister’s logo is not religiously offensive, says Swiss court
It should have been quite simple: Jägermeister wanted to put its iconic logo on things other than its unique brand of liqueur. Things like cosmetics and mobile phones. But the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property wasn’t having it. According to a report in Swissinfo, an online arm of the...
McDonald’s celebrates half-century of ‘scentsational’ Quarter Pounder
Almost 50 years ago, McDonald’s began introducing America to what would become one of its signature sandwiches — the Quarter Pounder. Created by a franchise operator in 1971 and hitting menus nationwide in 1973, the sandwich remains a favorite with the chain’s loyalists. Enthusiasts now have a line of Quarter...
Fermentation Festival rises in Lawrenceville on Sunday
The owner of Lawrenceville restaurant Franktuary once asked his kitchen staff if anyone knew how to make sauerkraut. Cornelius Lubecki raised his hand. He had some mad fermentation skills to offer. A year later, Lubecki founded Ferment Pittsburgh, creating a public festival to spread the word. This Sunday the fifth...
Allagash Brewing Company bringing brews to Pittsburgh
This beer will travel from Portland to Pittsburgh. Allagash Brewing Company, based in Portland, Maine, will begin distributing in Western Pennsylvania. The brews will be sold through Frank B. Fuhrer Wholesale Co. on Pittsburgh’s South Side starting March 30. Allagash is a Belgian-inspired brewery and its beers are distributed in...
Rare 45-year-old Irish whiskey released with $40K price tag
Described as rich, earthy and peppery, a “unicorn” whiskey from Ireland is now available with the hefty price tag of $40,000. The first bottles of Midleton Very Rare, produced by Midleton Distillery in County Cork, Ireland, were released with a tasting and launch on Tuesday night in London. The whiskey,...
East End Brewing’s cider being launched in cans and keg versions
East End Brewing is launching cans and kegs of its hard cider. Along Came A Cider is described as a semi-dry cider made from fresh apple juice from Kistaco Farms in Apollo. The brewery has made the cider since 2009 but wasn’t legally allowed to can it because of its...
Sweet, salty salmon gets a kick from Asian-inspired glaze
If you want a fancy-yet-easy main dish, look no further than baked salmon fillets. This baked salmon comes out beautifully with little to no effort. The marinade is an interesting blend of sweet and sour flavors. It’s similar to a teriyaki sauce, though it takes its main spice ingredients from...
The best version of nutty muddies goes a little salty
This is for chocolate-peanut-butter lovers everywhere. A salty-sweet spin on the sugar-coated cereal snack known as muddy buddies, this version adds pretzels and salted peanuts to the mix. If you want to package these like a box of chocolate, form the mix into clusters in the variation below. Salty-Sweet Nutty...
Vote for your favorite during annual South Side Soup Contest
Carmella Salem and Michael Alberter, co-owners of Carmella’s Plates and Pints on East Carson Street, South Side, know how to beat winter’s chill with a hearty bowl of homemade soup. They also know how to beat the competition in two out of four categories in the South Side Soup Contest,...
Top Tips From the Wine Cellar: 4 South African bottles to try
Pittsburgh might seem an unlikely epicenter for America’s education on South African wines, but that doesn’t faze Certified Sommelier and wine “translator” Adam Knoerzer. A Pittsburgh resident for the last nine years, Knoerzer in 2019 won the Wines of South Africa Sommelier Cup national competition in New York and then...
Mobile cupcake business serves up happiness by the dozenVideo
Confectionery chef Amanda Dingey of Ford City is on a roll. Dingey owns and operates StudeCakers, a mobile and online custom cupcake business she opened in 2012 after leaving a corporate customer service job. “Last year, I sold over 35,000 cupcakes,” says Dingey, 45. “My cupcake flavors scream ‘fun.’ ”...
Bud Light hopes to cash in on seltzer trendVideo
If you tried to affix the word “seltzer” to “Bud Light” 15 years ago, you would have been laughed out of the hallowed halls of Anheuser-Busch. Back then, Bud Light was the unrivaled king of American beer. It not only sold far more than any other brand in the U.S....
There is an art to toasting nuts, and here’s how to do it
I sometimes joke and say that as a Southern cook, I use pecans like other chefs use salt and pepper. That is to say, on just about everything. I love pecans and every other nut because they add a crunchy texture and an earthy sweet — nuttier — flavor to...
Sharing a meal: St. Joseph High School plans fundraiser for student battling cancer
Sitting down to eat this dinner will be about more than food for the body. It’s about feeding the spirit. The St. Joseph High School athletic association is hosting a fundraising dinner to support Eli Swierczewski, a senior three-sport athlete. The Harrison resident has been diagnosed with a recurrence of...
Big Burrito details new Lower Lawrenceville pizza restaurant concept
The new Big Burrito Group restaurant coming to Lower Lawrenceville will be a sister to the group’s Italian restaurant concept, Alta Via, with a focus on pizza. The details of the restaurant, tentatively named Alta Via Pizza, were announced by Big Burrito’s president and chef, Bill Fuller, at a Lawrenceville...
New Stanton Cracker Barrel named chain’s ‘store of the year’
Cracker Barrel restaurants are known for hearty meals, folksy decor and front porch rockers. The New Stanton restaurant, at 154 W. Pennsylvania Ave., also is basking in a special accolade these days. Its parent company has declared the site the chain’s “Restaurant Store of the Year” for fiscal year 2019....
McKeesport Candy Co. among locations chosen to wholesale Clark candy bars
McKeesport Candy Co. hit the Clark Bar lottery. Only a select number of businesses were chosen by Boyer Candy Co. for distribution of the sweet piece of Pittsburgh history. Jon H. Prince, owner of McKeesport Candy Co. and candyfavorites.com, said customers won’t be able to buy the bar there, as...
