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‘Fast Foodies’ star Kristen Kish shares her KFC-inspired crispy croquettes: ‘It never gets old’

Mitchell R. Lajoie 5 days ago










‘Fast Foodies’ star Kristen Kish shares her KFC-inspired crispy croquettes: ‘It never gets old’
















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Chef and co-host of TruTV’s “Fast Foodies” Kristen Kish has been passionate about food ever since she was a little girl. Kish tells Yahoo Life that she started watching cooking shows at 5 years old. “It was the one thing that could really hold my attention when I was a kid,” she shares. Kish, who won Season 10 of “Top Chef” in 2013, says that the show opened “so many opportunities and doors.” In 2018, Kish became chef at her new restaurant, Arlo Grey in Austin, Texas. She shares that it’s been “very challenging and really interesting to

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The Biscuit Taco and other fast food flops that deserve a comeback

Mitchell R. Lajoie 2 months ago
The Biscuit Taco and other fast food flops that deserve a comeback


Gone but not forgotten


Do you pine for the McPizza? Do you dream about eating the KFC Double Down? How about Burger King’s crinkle-cut Satisfries? Over the years we’ve lost some incredible fast food items and we’ve not forgotten them in a hurry. People have made Twitter accounts in their memory and even signed petitions asking for them back. Here are the old-school gems we miss the most, from the 1970s to more recent years.



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1979: Taco Pizza, Pizza Hut

Back in the 1970s, in Pizza Hut’s dine-in restaurants’ heyday, the restaurant launched a Taco Pizza. The best of both worlds, it was a

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Two men face drug charges after fast food staff contact police

Mitchell R. Lajoie 2 months ago

Two London men are facing charges after police say they seized drugs from a truck at fast food restaurant in the city’s south end.



a police car parked in a parking lot: Staff at the south London McDonald's contacted police after they thought the driver of a white pick up truck was impaired.

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Staff at the south London McDonald’s contacted police after they thought the driver of a white pick up truck was impaired.

Police say a white pickup truck was in the drive-thru at the McDonalds at the corner of Highbury Avenue and Hamilton Road around 12:45 a.m. Monday.

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Staff contacted police after they believed the driver of the vehicle was impaired. Officers responded to the fast food restaurant quickly and a search of the vehicle turned up several drugs.

Police say they seized more than $28,000 worth of drugs, which included 61 grams of fentanyl, over 27 grams of methamphetamine, nearly 200 capsules of hydromorph capsules, as

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How Tampa went from fast food badland to supercool trailblazer

Mitchell R. Lajoie 2 months ago


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To tide us over until we’re able to travel again, we’re republishing classic travel stories from our archives. This week we revisit Ashwin Bhandari’s trip to Tampa to see a food scene revolutionised by a new generation of chefs.

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On a Friday night in Seminole Heights, The Refinery restaurant is buzzing. Every seat is taken and diners spill onto the terrace, their tables heaving with colourful food. This isn’t what I expected to find in Tampa, a city that was once known as the best place to trial fast food franchises.

“We opened in 2010 to the sound of crickets,” says The Refinery founder Greg Baker. “Locals weren’t exposed to good food back then, but we’ve seen a change. Now they want interesting flavours, from fresh produce, at affordable prices, and Tampa

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