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- Fresh Off the Boat author and chef-restaurateur Eddie Huang is working on a new television show called Cash Only, which will spotlight the food of immigrants in America. “While not all Americans understand and welcome immigration, a lot of the anger towards immigrants could be resolved if it wasn’t presented as a zero-sum game where dominant culture loses every time an immigrant is granted entry,” Huang says. “I hope we can provide much needed perspective on this issue by examining the world through the eyes of the globally marginalized. Immigrants everywhere are same same but different.” There’s no word on a possible premiere date or what network or streaming platform will broadcast the show.
- Pizza Hut is the latest big food chain to take a stab at eliminating human antibiotics from its menu. The Hut plans to exclusively serve antibiotic-free chicken by 2022.
- Just in time for summer, the United States Postal Service now offers popsicle-scented scratch-and-sniff stamps.
- National Basketball Association players, coaches, and fans are notoriously petty. Houston Rockets supporters are taking their pettiness to a new level by inundating domestic goddess Ayesha Curry’s soon-to-open Space City restaurant with bad Yelp reviews. Curry’s husband, Steph, of course, plays for the Golden State Warriors, who eliminated the Rockets from this year’s NBA playoffs.
- Burger King’s Russian operation recently posted an odd social media promotion, offering women free Whoppers for life if they were impregnated by soccer players competing in the World Cup. The chain has since apologized for this terrible idea.
- Texas Monthly critic Daniel Vaughn, AKA Barbecue Snob, is getting his own show on Cooking Channel that will, unsurprisingly, showcase barbecue across America. The first episode of Smokelandia will air Wednesday, June 27.
- Hooters, and other “brestaurant” chains, have no place in the age of #MeToo.
- Starbucks is adding a new pink drink to its permanent menu.
- Is Bibo the Barmaid, a new drink-mixing robot, the Keurig of cocktails?
- Anthony Bourdain’s work on Parts Unknown has earned a posthumous nomination for a TV Critics Association Award. Bourdain’s CNN show is up for best informational series, along with CBS’s 60 Minutes, BBC America’s Blue Planet 2, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS’s The Vietnam War, and Netflix’s Wild Wild Country.
- Oscar Mayer is famous for its Weinermobile, and now the hot dog purveyor has introduced a Weinermobile jet pack. Welcome to the future.
- Finally, here’s a tour of the Pioneer Woman’s new boutique hotel in Oklahoma, which looks just like every other boutique hotel.
