Hey, look, a celebrity chef! We're all slaves to celebrity — or at least celebrity chefs. This week's top item is devoted to a freakish coincidence: I happened to be at G Street Food right when Rick Bayless popped in for a sandwich to go, to take with him for his flight out of town. [...]

A press release just came to Y&H's attention, although it really seems aimed at Five Guys' soft flabby underbelly: Boardwalk Fresh Burgers and Fries plans to compete with the famous local burger chain on its home turf. BFB&F thinks it has the formula to squash Five Guys — sell ground beef and buns to the [...]

Not that your friendly Y&H is a cynic, but when I saw this article on Mental Floss, I immediately thought, "I bet you can't get half of these 'secret' menu items at your local _____ (fill in the fast-food outlet)." So I went to my nearby Starbucks in Adams Morgan and asked the barista for [...]

Food Network Humor revels in its self-imposed role to bring the foodie cable channel to its knees — or at least "back down to Earth." This posting on ugly tattoos is a little off-target for the site, but hilarious nonetheless. By Y&H's unofficial count, the breakdown of tats goes like this:

The brilliant parody aims for and hits a number of targets: corporations jumping onto the green bandwagon, vacuous TV morning programs, even the dining public's naivete over what foods are really good for the environment. Taco Bell's New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature

The Heart Attack Grill takes food porn — or fast-food porn in this case — to its illogical conclusion.

And how does the enterprising manager respond? By throwing french fry grease at them. Drag Queens vs. McDonald's Employees – watch more funny videos

Joining such gastronomic prognosticators as this one and that one, NPR's Bonny Wolf lays out her predictions for the coming year in food. Most of Wolf's ideas have been expressed elsewhere, but this one stood out to me: The recession has brought back home-cooked meals in a big way, Wolf says. "It will mean an [...]

Reuters has just published this bit of delightful news: The recession may make you poor and fat. Reports the news service:

Few things seduce me faster than the smell of smoky, grilled meats. I have been known to stop dead in my tracks at the mere whiff of barbecued beef. Burger King appears to be banking on the idea that women find seared cow flesh a turn-on, too. The fast-food joint, in what clearly is a [...]