Just in time for Easter, Amy McCarthy dug into the history behind the Cadbury Creme Egg, a true star of the spring holiday season (despite what our best Easter candy ranking says officially). Who knew there was enough interest in the fleeting treat to push it into our top 10?
As will become clear as this post continues, everyone loves a ranking. This year, Disfrutar in Barcelona took the top spot on the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, which ranks fine dining destinations from around the world. Not surprisingly, a certain kind of diner is eager to add Disfrutar and 49 other winning restaurants to their bucket lists.
Clearly, home cooks want help with tofu. This round-up of our staff’s favorite tofu recipes included fried, crumbled, and steamed preparations.
Every year, Eater publishes a list of the best places to travel around the world for food (look out for Where to Eat in 2025 at the start of next year). In 2024, those spots included Cairo, Osaka, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, which we showed off in this package visually inspired by a jetset-era departures board.
Back in January, a limited edition Stanley x Starbucks tumbler caused rushes of Target customers to trample each other. Just as inevitable as those stampedes was the gawking interest in the fervor around Stanley cups, and why exactly people go so crazy over them. This was, after all, the year SNL also embraced the big dumb cup.
Salt Lake City had a big year in 2024. The success of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is ongoing, and in September, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, a reality show chronicling the messy relationships of a group of Mormon mom influencers living in Salt Lake City, debuted on Hulu. On the latter, the show’s stars can be seen drinking dirty sodas, or sodas spiked with syrups and creams. For all those curious to know more, we had this explainer ready.
In May, Morgan Spurlock died at 53. When Spurlock premiered Super Size Me in 2004, a documentary that saw Spurlock eat only McDonald’s for 30 days and record the health effects, it became a phenomenon. Twenty years later, and in the wake of Spurlock’s death, Adam Reiner reflected on its influence and the controversy surrounding the documentary and its director.
Who doesn’t appreciate a good lasagna? In this installment of Bettina Makalintal’s recipe testing column, she put three internet-famous lasagnas to the test: Alison Roman’s A Very Good Lasagna, Samin Nosrat’s Big Lasagna, and John Chandler’s World’s Best Lasagna. There could only be one winner — do click through to find out.
The James Beard Foundation Awards process takes place in stages: a long list of semifinalists, followed by the short list of finalists, and finally, the list of award winners. It’s that middle stage that earned the most eyes this year — it is, after all, an honor to be nominated — but in truth, all of our coverage of the awards occupied a spot on this list. The finalists happened to be the story that won the most eyeballs.
Eater’s annual list of the best new restaurants across the country dropped this fall, celebrating 14 restaurants that opened over the past 12 months, from a modern day fish camp in Asheville, North Carolina to a three-hour tasting menu outside of Houston. And it’s heartening to see that Eater readers were also eager to celebrate these stellar recent entrants into America’s dynamic dining scene.
