quote [ Can a "dumb cake" help you discover your fate? ]

quote [ Sometimes, you just strike internet gold ? ya know, those obscure little corners of the internet where you can fall blissfully down the rabbit hole. Today?s find is a free online library of unearthed and collected bartender books; rare volumes dating from the 1820s through the 1940s, faithfully digitised ? every last page ? by a little-known museum of wines and spirits located on the small island of Bendor in the south of France. ]

quote [ We explore the dubious origin and portrayal of meat in Death Trash, Carrion, Dishonored, Pathologic 2, Little Nightmares and more. ]

quote [ French law says only sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region can use the name. A new Russian law reserves the name for bubbly produced and sold in Russia. ]

quote [ Well before people domesticated crops, they were grinding grains for hearty stews and other starchy dishes. ]

quote [ When a wasp dies inside the fig after pollination, enzymes (called ficain) break down the carcass; consequently, anyone who eats figs is also consuming wasp biomass. ]

quote [ Exploring the accidental invention of the ICEE, the frozen beverage that changed American summers forever. ]

quote [ Images of Olympians and other athletes on boxes helped the cereal maintain a competitive edge ]

quote [ Explaining why the multi-layer Neapolitan ice cream exists, and why it?s never actually appeared on a space shuttle despite strong suggestions otherwise. ]