It seems the department still considers the potato a second-class vegetable.

A spokesman for the National Potato Council, irked that — despite a failed USDA attempt to limit potato use in new school lunch guidelines — potatoes are still passed over in favor of greener, leafier vegetables. (via bencrair)

theheritagefoundation:

Twinkies!

Twinkies: indestructible.

Hostess: not so much.

michaelhayes:

gabedelahaye:

Hahahahaha.

Art.

You sassy chicken!

If you haven’t already seen this spread. Amazing.

(via thingsorganizedneatly)

Michelangelo, you look delicious.

(via jessbennett)

Raina Kelley on how Thomas Keller transformed American dining by “combining French snobbery with a greenmarket sensibility.”

(Mr. Keller, we at Nwk Tumblr are free for dinner tonight at Per Se if you’d like a follow up piece.  Just sayin’…)

inothernews:

I’m sure whatever this is on Radar is delicious, but from afar it looks like an eviscerated gut.

Bad things happen when pizza leaves New York.

today:

It’s called Le Whif, and it comes in what looks like a tube of lipstick. Inside is a breathable powder that contains 100 mg of caffeine — about the same amount as you’d get in a double espresso.

FULL STORY

In America, first you get the coffee, then you get the power, then you get the women. 

alittlespace:

Omg, Friday cannoli and champagne! Someone must have heard me bitching about my lack of sweets.

Nwk will be very pleased if there are no ‘take the cannoli’ jokes. 

All this masculine body-consciousness has some critics concerned. “There’s a lot of evidence that men are starting to be more strongly affected by the cultural discourse in terms of fatness being less tolerated even among men than it was quite recently,” says Paul Campos, a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of The Obesity Myth. “We’re just getting to see the internalization of the self-hatred and the pathologizing of variations of body size among men in ways we’ve always seen among women.” he says. “This culture is so completely f—ked up about it that it’s hard not to have a screwed-up attitude.

Eating disorders: Now for men too!