Posts Tagged ‘booze’
Posted by Warren Rojas / Friday, May 6th, 2011
Austin food blogger/cookbook author/veteran reveler Hilah Johnson feels your post-Cinco de Mayo pain. And her tried-and-true prescription for a speedy recovery includes:
(Video: Hilah Cooking)
Simón!
–Warren
The Rise of Comfort Foods in Recession Era Googling
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Photo Credit: beketchai
With the recession taking a hit on the nation’s disposable income, restaurants have taken to inventing “tax relief dinners” and “economic stimulus dinners” to lure customers back through their doors.
So, what’s on the menu?
Comfort foods, naturally. Plenty of feel-good foods, like fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, chicken pot pie and s’mores.
It looks like restaurants have been picking the right recession menus because the 2008 Google Zeitgeist (a glimpse at “the spirit of the times” through breakdown of the year’s Google searches) finds a distinct upsurge in people seeking comfort foods.
Here are the Top 10 Most Googled Comfort Foods in 2008. For fun, we’ve linked each search term to its “I’m Feeling Lucky” destination
- 1. ice cream
- 2. chili
- 3. spaghetti
- 4. meatloaf
- 5. fried chicken
- 6. chicken soup
- 7. apple pie
- 8. pot pie
- 9. potato salad
- 10. macaroni and cheese
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For some reason, Google doesn’t count “booze” as comfort food. However, they did include a list of the year’s most popular cocktail searches because there’s been an apparent increase in people looking to mix their own cocktails.
Makes sense to us. Why pay for a round at the bar when you can drink twice as much for less cash, right?
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Here are the Top 10 Most Googled Cocktails in 2008, along with their “I Feel Lucky” links (when searching “[name of drink] recipe”).
- 1. martini
- 2. mojito
- 3. margarita
- 4. manhattan
- 5. cosmopolitan
- 6. sangria
- 7. bellini
- 8. mai tai
- 9. white russian
- 10. bloody mary
What are some of your favorite comfort foods and cocktails?
– Christina Lee
