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- Queer Eye’s Fab Five gave James Corden’s guitar player a makeover on The Late Late Show Wednesday night. And, of course, Corden had to make a guacamole dig at the expense of food expert Antoni Porowski.
- Actress Natalie Portman and writer Jonathan Safran-Foer teamed up on Eating Animals, a documentary adaptation of Safran-Foer’s book that goes inside the grim world of factory farming. The movie comes out this Friday. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Portman discusses her veganism: “The thing I hate most when you say you’re vegan is people trying to pick holes — like, ’What if vegetables feel it when you bite into them? Don’t you know plants communicate with each other?’ I don’t want you to attack me about my choices. I’m not trying to attack you about your choices.”
- Nickelodeon, the kids’ network that many ’90s kids watched back in the ’90s, is attempting to get in on the currently booming nostalgia economy. The network is hawking a new condiment called “slime sauce,” which is meant to be reminiscent of the green goop that was made famous on You Can’t Do That on Television.
- Speaking of the ’90s, remember those Got Milk ads? The campaign came out 25 years ago.
- The New York Times has an “overlooked” obituary for Fannie Farmer, who died in 1915 and is credited with creating recipes in their modern form.
- Here’s an in-depth Fast Company look at Dig Inn, the innovative restaurant chain that farms its own ingredients
- For one day only, a minor league baseball team in Hartford, Connecticut, is changing its name from the Yard Goats to the Steamed Cheeseburgers. The merchandise is incredible.
- Italians Mad at Food, in all of its stubbornness, may be the Twitter account that most perfectly embodies Father’s Day.
- This fake, bot-created Olive Garden ad is better than the real thing. “Olive Garden: When you’re here, you’re here.”
I forced a bot to watch over 1,000 hours of Olive Garden commercials and then asked it to write an Olive Garden commercial of its own. Here is the first page. pic.twitter.com/CKiDQTmLeH
— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) June 13, 2018
- Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, the daughter of immigrants, says it’s time for Americans to stand up against Donald Trump’s immigration policy, which separates children from their parents and “devastates the most basic and fundamental relationship human beings know.”
- In 2010, rookie professional football player Dez Bryant participated in the tradition of using money from his new contract to buy a lavish dinner for all of his Dallas Cowboys teammates. The final bill came out to be an astounding $54,896. This is the story of that dinner.
- There is a prominent peach scene in Oscar-winning film Call Me By Your Name, so the forthcoming vinyl version of the movie’s soundtrack will smell like peaches.
- Rest in peace, chef Myrtle Allen, the first Irish woman to earn a Michelin star. Allen died on Wednesday at the age of 94.
- Seattle grunge rockers Pearl Jam honored Anthony Bourdain, who died last week, at a concert on Tuesday.
- In chain coffee news: McDonald’s is now serving frozen cold brew drinks, and Dunkin’ has a new line of chocolates made with its coffee beans.
- Finally, in a move that shows advertising’s continued encroachment on art, KFC mascot Colonel Sanders is delivering the commencement address at the Art Institute of Portland’s graduation ceremony on Friday.
