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    Sarah Fuss, Shine Staff

    Sarah Fuss, Shine Staff

  • Are you getting ripped off on your bar tab?

    Cable and mobile phone companies thrive on surcharges for unrecognizable items like air wave rental fees and federal something taxes. Whenever I've inquired into them with the providers, they've repeated the name of the charge to me and explained that's what it is. We're used to accepting stowaway c

  • America's top 10 fast food restaurants (in pictures)

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  • The best way to serve beer (aka how summer just got better)

    A Michelada is a Mexican drink served so many ways it's hard to say which is the original. The one I discovered this summer can't truly be called a "beer cocktail" because you don't mix it with anything. What makes it special is what lies on the rim of its glass, so I prefer to just call it: How a b

  • The craziest place to eat this summer

    Breakfast in the Sky on the Ferris wheel at Morey's Piers wins our award for most nutso location to serve a meal this season. The wheel on the Jersey Shore is 156 feet high, the tables have white linen table cloths, and brunch items include shrimp and lobster omelets, Belgian waffles, and a Cuban-sp

  • Shoplifter douses Victoria’s Secret underwear worth $747.50 in chili. Not sexy.

    Lauren "Chili-Thong" Jackson is part of a proud tradition of revenge artists known to dunk their adversaries' toothbrushes in the toilet, spit in their food, or, in this case, dump chili all over their underwear. The New York Post reports that Lauren didn't take it well when a Victoria's Secret in W

  • 7 most inappropriate restaurant names

    Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively were spotted this week, according to Page 6, eating lunch side by side at Pink Taco, an upscale Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles. The thing that sucks about Pink Taco, aside from its somehow chauvinist name, is that they recently painted a donkey pink in a publici

  • Pissed-off Whole Foods employee writes tremendous resignation letter

    Writing a furious resignation letter to an entire Whole Foods is the stuff frustrated employee dreams are made of. That's why the thing's gone viral, that, and if Whole Foods is guilty of all his accusations, they have a lot of explaining to do. The employee of five years compiled and sent a seethin

  • Michelle Obama and Wal-Mart share the good news: Will better markets make a healthier nation?

    Michelle Obama's good news at her press conference this week was that Walgreens, Wal-Mart, Supervalu, and other regional and independent food retailers will be opening and expanding produce sections in a total of 1,500 stores in an effort to address the health problems found in 'food deserts,' the l

  • 'Xtreme Eating' losers announced by the Center for Science for the Public Interest

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  • Top foods adults love and children hate

    My parents have a wonderful, probably universal, proclivity to pass along relics from my childhood, reminders of what I was like back then. For instance, my mom regularly rediscovers my third grade "book" on Susan B. Anthony that I comprehensively researched in the A volume of the Encyclopedia Brita

  • Why the Mediterranean diet is losing popularity in its own land

    The Mediterranean diet may be more popular along the Pacific U.S. these days than it is in Italy, Greece, and Spain. According to an NPR story this week, the famous diet is losing ground in its homeland.Dr. Angelo Pietrobelli, associate professor of pediatrics and nutrition at the University of Vero

  • Space shuttle food secrets

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  • Heidi Montag's new show and the celebs we'd rather watch run a restaurant

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  • Vote for the winner of Shine's Father's Day Food Contest!

    Renee G. has been voted our winner! Thank you to everyone who entered and voted!The time has come for readers to vote for the winner in Shine's Father's Day Food Contest! Who should get the beautiful Henckels BBQ tools set? We asked all of you what you're planning to cook to celebrate the dad in you

  • Join our live Twitter chat with EatingWell's award-winner Jessie Price for tips to cook better + healthier this summer

    Last Tuesday I made a big batch of a black bean and fresh corn salad that I'd never made before. The mix was so simple, so healthy and fresh, that I found myself eating it as a side salad at lunch, a dip for chips before dinner, and a hunger-slayer at other unplanned hours. This dish moved in and up

  • The two things to do for better salsa (thank you, Rick Bayless)

    This weekend celebrity chef Rick Bayless will be headlining Celebration Weekend 2011, Sunset magazine's festival in Menlo Park, California. He'll be demonstrating recipes like Mexican-Style Shrimp Cocktail, Sundried Tomato Guacamole, and Tropical Beach Ceviche, while many of us are at home left to o

  • Shine's Father's Day Food Contest: Win a $286 Henckel's grill tool set for Dad

    This contest is now closed. Thanks for your participation!Father's Day is striding in soon, and if you're like us, you haven't picked up a gift yet. We figured. That's why we found the perfect man present to send to the winner of our Father's Day contest.

  • What do you hate most about cooking?

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  • Shine's best Memorial Day stories and recipes 2011

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  • Note to Shine Food bloggers, present and future

    As the editor of Shine Food, I have been amazed with the blog posts that have been coming in lately. They are written well, interesting, and hunger-inducing. Here's the thing: In a few cases, I have been knocked out by a stunning picture, but then not been able to feature it because the recipe is no