• Crunch Time: How To Make Bolivian-Style Hot Dogs

    Ham and Sohla El Waylly are the 30-year-old chef-owners of Hail Mary, a New American–style diner in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. One look at their menu says it all (and yes, of course breakfast is served all day). The two chefs have a wealth of popular restaurants on their résumés and are putting their skills and creativity toward…

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  • Why Is Some Ketchup "Fancy"?

    You've probably seen the word "fancy" on a bottle or packet of ketchup and had one of two reactions: nothing, or "Ooh, fancy ketchup — I hope it's just the regular stuff." What exactly is fancy ketchup? Is it Heinz's caramelized onion– and bacon-flavored ketchup, whose reviews describe its flavor as "chemical and burned" and "not…

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  • Ketchup Leather: An Ingenious Solution To Soggy Buns

    There's a new condiment in town that will have your burger cheering audibly. (Note: If your burger actually cheers, you must call it a cheersburger and tell everyone.) It's called Ketchup Leather, it is trademarked, and while it may look like the fruit-based cellophane rolls of your childhood, it's a decidedly grown-up concept. Chef Ernesto…

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  • Banana Ketchup: The Philippines' Answer To A Lack Of Tomatoes

    Ketchup, traditional partner in crime for fries, hot dogs, meatloaf, eggs and more, has long been a staple on the counters of diners and burger joints. In Filipino cuisine, however, there’s a popular thick red sauce that also goes by the name ketchup. This much sweeter, less tangy red sauce is banana-based, with food coloring…

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  • Blue Cheese Polenta Fries With Curry Ketchup And Garlic Aioli

    Leave it to West Coast guide to the good life Sunset Magazine to throw together a side dish that sounds so delicious, we'll be ditching potatoes for a while.  Polenta is good luck for me — my very first cookbook was all about polenta — so when I saw this dish on the menu at A’Town Bistro…

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  • Hey! A Friday Morning Mustard Breakup Meltdown!

    Everyone loves Heinz ketchup, but unfortunately it can only be one lucky girl in a mustard costume’s boyfriend. Breaking up is hard to do, particularly when faced with the prospect of your ex moving on with a better version of yourself. So, understandably, one scorned yellow bottle is having herself a total guitar-smashing freakout, and…

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  • Sir Kensington's Wins This Round, But The 'Ketchup Wars' Are Far From Over

    Let's be upfront: I'm a Heinz devotee, and I'm not shy about it. When I come across menus that advertise some artisanal house-made ketchup instead, I wonder why the chef doesn't do something more worthwhile with his time, like build a better french fry. As far as I'm concerned, ketchup was perfected long ago, and…

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  • In Staunch Defense: Pairing American Cheese And Ketchup

    I developed an intimate relationship with grilled cheese sandwiches in high school. In an act of unprecedented faith, the dining hall provided an electric griddle where you could burn-it-yourself. Few ventured beyond the provided supplies of butter, white/wheat bread and American, Swiss and cheddar slices (who grills a Swiss cheese?). But with the entire dining…

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  • Ideas For Dinner Tonight: Ketchup Cravings

    There's nothing you can do about a ketchup craving except indulge it. Don't be shy: ketchup goes on whatever you say it goes on, judgment-free. Many great food cultures like Indian, Southeast Asian and Filipino have adapted the basic formula to suit their cuisines. But we like the good old-fashioned American stuff. Here are a…

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  • No-Bun Burger Recipe

    Fan of true dude food? We are, which is why we're cooking our way through GQ Eats, the magazine's new cookbook. Particularly the chapter titled Michelin-Starred Meals At Home. Between the hunks of meat, spectacular sides and cocktails we'd make by the pitcher, our takeout-ordering skills are getting rusty. We just learned not to wrap…

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  • Is Ketchup Gluten-Free?

    So you have your bunless burger and your double-helping of fries (you know, to make up for the lost carbs). You heap on the ketchup and...oh wait that's gluten-free right? Is ketchup gluten-free? Or are you messing with your whole meal you already messed with? That discarded bun looks pissed off.Excellent news: don't shell out…

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  • How To Make Secret Sauce For Your Burger

    We all know what secret sauce is. It goes by a lot of different names, but seemingly every decent burger joint has some form of it. In-n-Out has spread. McDonald's has the oh-so-clever Special Sauce. Shake Shack has Shack Sauce. What's it called? I call it secret sauce, but you can call it whatever you…

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  • Condiment Alert: Here's Why India Has The Best Ketchup

    That is one enthusiastic ketchup man right there. I've since finished my jar of coriander chutney since writing about its many virtues last week but I'm still on an Indian condiment kick. I remember dipping fries into ketchup in India as a kid and thinking "what the hell is this stuff?" It was definitely ketchup…

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  • Watch Ranch Dressing And Ketchup Duke It Out

    Awh, I feel like I gave away who wins. Hidden Valley's recent campaign to win America's favor as the best condiment around reinforces one indisputable fact: there is nothing like watching two dudes in foam costumes beat on each other from New York to California. It doesn't even have to make sense, I'd happily plant…

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  • Easy Meatloaf Recipe

    There are meatloaf recipes, and then there are meatloaf recipes. This one falls under one of those categories. Simply put, like our recipe for mashed potatoes, this is the last one you'll ever need. As with all recipes starring ground beef, we recommend you head to a real-life legitimate butcher for your 80/20 (that's 80%…

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  • Old Bay Fries Recipe

    You've been dying to break out the Fry Daddy, haven't you? If you're going to fire it up — and you should — make it worth your while by frying a couple of other things in addition to potatoes. Then toss them all together with Old Bay seasoning, the universal seasoning (slogan pending corporate approval),…

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  • 7 Things You Didn't Know About Ketchup

    There's nothing like opening the fridge and seeing a bottle of ketchup at least half-full. Your fries shall be dipped. Your burger will be okay. Your eggs are safe. That's right, some people like it on eggs. But if you've been to a trendy establishment serving up any posh "housemade" variation on ketchup, you may…

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  • Currywurst: Not The Worst

    I've done my fair share of sausage coverage in the past week while reporting on German Christkindlmarkts for Lufthansa USA. Like this gem: the Grillwurst Schmanker, home of five meats. Other meaty highlights were Nuremberg's famous Drei im Weggla, three delightful little piggies in a bun, and the magical pairing of sausage and sauerkraut. My…

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