Author – The Durango Herald

Sexy witch. Sexy nurse. Sexy Mr. Rogers? Inside the sexy Halloween costume industrial complex.

PHOENIX – Four weeks before Halloween, Dominique Fiacco tried on the costume that its creators hope to turn into one of the holiday’s hottest and stepped in front of the camera in a small ph...

DATE: Oct 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Beyond Meat’s latest plant-based burger is meatier, juicier and a big step closer to beef

In the battle to create the best plant-based burger, Beyond Meat just fired a shot. The company has reformulated its Beyond Burger, making it meatier and better looking, with “marbling” to e...

DATE: Jun 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

You can now spend your summer wearing a ranch dressing swimsuit in a ranch dressing pool floatie

Sure, no one needs a $35 pool float shaped like a bottle of ranch dressing. But ranch dressing has never been about needs. Ranch dressing is about our most brazen wants: to make healthy vege...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Carl’s Jr. is rolling out a CBD burger, but don’t get your hopes too high

If you live in Denver and you’re celebrating 420, the weed-smoker’s holiday, the burger chain Carl’s Jr. has just the thing for your inevitable munchies. The restaurant is debuting a CBD-inf...

DATE: Apr 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Slime has officially reached the “edible” stage of the YouTube trend cycle

Probably because I am not a 7-year-old, I did not initially understand the appeal of slime. The stuff is everywhere now, oozing out of all corners of the internet. I’m told by fri...

DATE: Jan 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Dessert hummus wants to be the new fro-yo

Has the fro-yo-ification of hummus reached its peak, or has it only just begun? It started with chocolate hummus, but now that’s the tamest flavor on the market. Suddenly, we have snickerdoo...

DATE: Jan 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

If you don’t eat honey because you are a vegan, avocados might be off-limits, too

One thing that most sensible people can agree on – whether they’re vegan, meat-eaters, paleo, keto or whatever food tribe they happen to belong to – is that avocados are delicious. But there...

DATE: Oct 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Pringles could never have captured Nashville’s hot chicken in a chip

Nashville hot chicken went from an African-American regional delicacy to a national phenomenon in about a decade. The style of extra-spicy fried chicken served with pickles and some bread to...

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Loud music at restaurants could be leading you to order burgers over salads, study says

Noisy restaurants are a source of perennial complaints, but it’s not just diners’ ears that are affected – it’s their waistlines, too. A new study published in the Journal of the Academy of ...

DATE: Jun 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Black wine is here to turn out the lights on your rosé party

Name all the colors of wine, and you’ll start with the obvious ones: red, white and pink, or rosé. Maybe you know about orange wine, or vinho verde – “green wine” from Portugal that’s techni...

DATE: Apr 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Spicy candy is going to be big this year. But why can’t you taste the heat?

In the past year, America’s confectioners collectively got the hots for spicy candy. Jolly Rancher Hotties hit stores last summer. They were followed by Sour Patch Kids Fire and S...

DATE: Mar 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

OpenTable asks restaurants to provide a safe space for women in kitchens

If you work in a restaurant, you might soon be seeing a sign posted in your place of employment that shows its zero tolerance for harassment. The sign is the most visible part of ...

DATE: Mar 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food