"The cupcakes are a great choice if you're preparing for a TV viewing party with your girlfriends," Sutter tells PEOPLE
For Glenn Oliver , it took a certain amount of faith in the unseen to launch a business in Detroit, the poorest major city in America. Oliver is a lawyer, not a businessman, whose experience included clerking for a Michigan Supreme Court justice and approving utility contracts. But an entrepreneurial streak that runs in his family emerged when Oliver began to ponder the potential of a resource the Great Lake State has in abundance: water. Rising demand has spurred a global boom in water-supply projects. So why not create a marketplace for all the new business, where contractors and suppliers can bid on projects around the world? The result of Oliver's inspiration is a website he spent nine months building, H2bid.com, which charges $450 a year for a membership and bills itself as the "largest clearinghouse" for water contracts. Oliver's venture isn't profitable yet, but he's confident that his startup will help the battered city. "Entrepreneurship," he notes, "is the largest creator
Cue the tears! Pastry chef Seth Caro loses it on the show's second challenge
Britain's advertising watchdog has censured an Italian ice cream manufacturer over an advertisement depicting a heavily pregnant nun that appeared ahead of a papal visit to the UK.
The actress ordered two dozen of the frosted treats to be delivered to The Kennedys in Canada
The motorcycle enthusiast whips up a customized flavor - it's pink! - at home with Stella and Liam
If masculinity could take the form of a 2-inch frosted cupcake, David Arrick would have the recipe.
With all due respect to esteemed chefs and restaurateurs, anyone who's ever bought fresh steamed crab from a Bangkok canal boat or sampled hot, crisp frites on a Brussels sidewalk knows that not all stellar meals are served in courses -- or even come with silverware.
Baskin-Robbins is putting five of its signature 31 flavors in the deep freeze.
updated: Tue Jul 13 2010 06:29:00
Istanbul's Cihangir neighbourhood has become a cultural hub, becoming a draw for artists, writers, and intellectuals.
Find out how to make the favorites of Chace Crawford, Nicole Richie and more!
Find out how to make the secret crust that is a staple in the White House
Kroger is recalling some containers of its Deluxe Chocolate Paradise Ice Cream, sold in 17 states, because it may contain tree nuts that are not listed on the label, the grocery chain said Tuesday.
Still scrambling to file your taxes or waiting (still) on your refund? Companies around the country are trying to relieve the Tax Day sting with freebies and special deals.
I wore a path between Washington and Philly for interviews and shoots for our recent "Cheating Death" special with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Sue Compton is having a pretty sweet day. She's a newly minted millionaire, courtesy of her Pillsbury Bake-Off win, announced live Wednesday morning on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
updated: Fri Apr 09 2010 07:00:00
It's practically naked, but you won't see any buns on this monster of a sandwich. CNN's Jeanne Moos has the taste test.
In the midst of first lady Michelle Obama's campaign against child obesity and chef Jamie Oliver's prime-time TV initiative for cleaner cooking, a chicken chain is crowing about some aggressively fat-laden fare.
In the midst of first lady Michelle Obama's campaign against child obesity and chef Jamie Oliver's prime-time TV initiative for cleaner cooking, the Mud Hens and a chicken chain are crowing about some aggressively fat-laden fare.
Can we please stop calling the nation's love affair with cupcakes a trend?
Find out what toppings the starlets love on their treats - and what flavor is a celebrity favorite
Find out what the fashionista ate after her presentation - and Kim Kardashian's snack of choice at Bryant Park
The singer surprised for his 27th birthday with a frozen treat in his favorite flavor - chocolate chip cookie dough!
A New Jersey bakery offers cupcakes with yummy likenesses of the hunks
The president makes calls to the troops then digs into a feast on the holiday
updated: Mon Oct 05 2009 16:56:00
CNN photojournalist Mike Miller takes us to an ice cream parlor, where little has changed since it was opened in 1956.
Since 1956, Monroe Udell has been serving up ice cream the only way he knows -- the old-fashioned way.
The couple step out with Knox and Vivienne in Amman, Jordan
Here's what I've learned from my hours in the kitchen.
New York is about to get a new street vendor with a sweet twist. Watch out, Mister Softee; the new kid on the block is a dessert truck calling itself "New York's first mobile cupcake shoppe."
updated: Fri May 22 2009 13:47:00
Melissa Long takes us to a Texas taqueria that has become a Houston tradition.
Is no-sugar ice cream really a healthier alternative to regular ice cream? What exactly is the sugar alcohol they use in the no-sugar ice cream?
• Jennifer Garner, treating 3-year-old daughter Violet to a sweet afterschool treat - frozen yogurt at TCBY in Santa Monica. The actress was busy keeping her daughter smiling, and an eyewitness tells us, "She was really trying to cheer up her oldest daughter with a special treat." Apparently the frozen dessert did the trick! Says the eyewitness, "When Jen and Violet left the frozen yogurt place, Violet finally looked a bit happier."
Red wine and chocolate are a darling pair these days. With all those deep, dark chocolate notes right in a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine seems like a natural match for an intensely-flavored, dark chocolate dessert.
updated: Thu Feb 12 2009 09:24:00
Wine expert Gary Vaynerchuk has tips on picking the best wine for your Valentine's Day date.
updated: Thu Feb 12 2009 09:24:00
Travel guide writer Pauline Frommer takes us to San Francisco and the wine country.
When Americans sit down with their families for Thanksgiving dinner, most of us will probably gorge ourselves on the same traditional Thanksgiving menu, with turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and pumpkin pie taking up the most real estate on our plates.
I can learn more about a man at dessert than any other time.
The reality star mom is focused on creating new traditions for the famous family of ten
No one wants melting ice cream. Nor do we want melting polar ice caps. The trouble is, keeping our ice cream cold warms the planet because powerful greenhouse gases are used in most refrigerators and freezers in the U.S.
PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.
On multiple occasions, I've told my boss that I'm only killing time at SI.com until Alan Richman retires and GQ starts looking for a new food critic. After all, I only became a sportswriter for the chance to eat my way through college towns across the country. That's why my colleagues and I have put together SI.com's Gridiron Cuisine Top 20, a list of the top meals -- liquid and solid -- for college football fans.
With a baby on the way, the actress and husband Will Arnett avoid champagne
Irvine Robbins, who as co-founder of Baskin-Robbins brought Rocky Road, Pralines 'n Cream and other exotic ice cream concoctions to every corner of America, has died at age 90
updated: Mon Apr 21 2008 19:23:00
President Bush is in New Orleans. CNN's Ed Henry talks about what can be expected from the summit with Mexico and Canada.
I don't know about you, but when I'm bored, I start eating. That's why I'm worried about ruining my diet while covering the 2008 North American Leaders' Summit with President Bush and his counterparts from Canada and Mexico.
America's Thanksgiving Day traditions include football games, parades, big dinners -- and a lot of Web surfing.
Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs are used by the military to provide nutritious and compact meals for the troops. The meals spark memories good and bad, for those who ate them in the military and even for some civilians who used them during disasters, when food was not readily available.
The entries in this year's Big Tex Choice Awards could entice State Fair visitors back to the deep fryer for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
When customers are waiting for their orders at my Pittsburgh dance-wear shop, the Dancer's Pointe (thedancerspointe.com), I send them down the street to Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor. It opened in the 1920s as a pharmacy with a soda fountain. After the owner died in 1979, his family boarded up the store with everything inside. In 1999, Ray Klavon, one of the grandsons, decided to reopen it. When he started cleaning up the place, he found vintage ice cream dishes and stool seats shaped like bottle caps. He even uses the original freezers.
China warned the media Tuesday against exaggerating its food safety problems and stirring consumer panic, even as officials announced dozens of snacks for children had failed standards and more fake blood protein was found in hospitals
Chinese inspectors found excessive amounts of additives and preservatives in dozens of children's snacks and seized hundreds of bottles of fake human blood protein from hospitals, officials said Tuesday.
The NFL has the Vince Lombardi Trophy, the NHL has the Stanley Cup -- and Major League Eating has the Yellow Mustard Belt, which is up for grabs again this July 4 in the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on New York's Coney Island. The event will be as hotly-contested as ever as American fan favorite Joey Chestnut seeks to take down Takeru Kobayashi's hot dog dynasty.
Katie Holmes wrapped filming on her movie Mad Money in Louisiana last week, but the sweet-toothed actress didn't leave town empty-handed.
Paris Hilton traded in bologna sandwiches and a cold cell for Mrs. Beasley's cupcakes and the warmth of her palatial home amid a growing media circus outside her Hollywood mansion Thursday.
Fridays are on Katie, y'all.
The problem with most candy bars and cookies is that they're too small to be full-fledged desserts -- but not if they become part of the dessert.
The heat wave baking much of the country this week might make you stop for a minute and think about your job.
Remember how the sound of an ice cream truck used to echo through the dense, hot air of the neighborhood? How kids would come running from backyards, lured by the promise of cold, sweet relief? Tho...
What do a cheesecake chain, a green energy company, a medical software firm, and an online broker have in common? They are among 49 U.S. companies that hit a special milestone last year: $1 billion...
When Baskin-Robbins offered free scoops of ice cream for two hours on Japan's Ice Cream Day last month, 700,000 customers showed up at its 750 stores. But the hottest new thing in ice-cream-crazed ...
Cruises don't have to be "mega." They can feature kite-flying from the deck, a Saturday-night fish fry in a church basement, bagpipe music drifting across a fog-shrouded harbor -- and Fairly Honest Bob.
What do a cheesecake chain, a green energy company, a medical software firm, and an online broker have in common? They are among 49 U.S. companies that hit a special milestone last year: $1 billion in annual sales. Many of these superstars you've probably heard of. The broker is Ameritrade. The restaurant chain is Cheesecake Factory. Others are less well known, including Cerner, a medical software firm in Kansas City, and Headwaters, an alternative energy company in Salt Lake City.
South America's most sophisticated city sure knows how to kick up its heels. But you better pace yourself: primetime is way north of midnight.
Here's the scoop: Using Internet-era technology, a Massachusetts company has figured out how to make and sell a cup of fresh, custom-made, premium ice cream from a vending machine in 45 seconds. An...
How about a nice scoop of cherry-vanilla water buffalo ice cream? No? Perhaps a hot fudge sundae instead, with mint chocolate chip yak ice cream? C'mon ya wimp ...
A SOBERING THOUGHT strikes you upon entering the National Center for Food Protection and Defense: This place is not very well defended. Located on the second floor of a red-brick building at the Un...
For years the sweetener bins at McDonald's were dominated by the same three colors: pink, white, and blue. That is, until this summer, when the fast-food chain's countertops began to take on a dist...
In making a movie about U.S. Marines in the battle of Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood became concerned that he was telling only half of the story.
As natives of Mexico City, we have always been very proud of the food and spices of our country. Mexico has some of the best cuisine in the world, although many dishes are little known in the U.S. ...
When European megalopoly Unilever swallowed up Ben & Jerry's a few years back, fans of the quirky Vermont company feared the worst.
Citing fears that the U.S. government may allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, about 100 protesters sought to melt their opponents' arguments with a Capitol Hill rally Friday featuring a gigantic baked Alaska.
Six years ago CEO Doug Ducey emerged from a Cold Stone Creamery retreat in Arizona with a plan to expand to 1,000 profitable ice cream stores by 2005--a lofty goal, considering that the company had...
Here's the scoop on Yahoo!'s 10th birthday: Free ice cream.
Put your money where your mouth is. That's the lesson of Silhouette Brands, the maker of Skinny Cow and Skinny Carb ice cream, which Dreyers Grand Ice Cream recently scooped up for $71 million in c...
The Donald pit teams Apex and Mosaic in a cold competition in Thursday night's episode of "The Apprentice." But what does it take to come up with some scintillating ice cream flavors in real life?
One day in September--no one knows exactly when--1,500 pairs of candy-colored sneakers, adorned with dollar signs and packaged in faux ice-cream cartons, will land in high-end shoe emporiums nation...
"Fork down," Arnold Carbone implores gently. "Fork down." Oh, sure, Arnold. Here I am, devouring a king-sized wedge of the best damn sour cream apple-walnut pie this side of the Danube, and this ch...
The low-carb products are selling like crazy," says Ali Shabbir, owner of a General Nutrition Centers health food store in Manhattan. "And new ones are coming out every day." He's not kidding. Acco...
A few months back, a friend of mine hosted a TV party to watch the Kentucky Derby. So I did what any fan of regional Americana would do for such an occasion: I baked a derby pie.
A few months back, a friend of mine hosted a TV party to watch the Kentucky Derby. So I did what any fan of regional Americana would do for such an occasion: I baked a derby pie.
Just beyond the souvenir shop and down the relic-filled hallways in the Ben & Jerry's factory in Waterbury, Vt., massive pipes pump out 190,000 pints of ice cream each day. Throughout the day, trac...
Ice cream impresario Rick Brown doesn't want people screaming for his brand of ice cream--he wants them to rap for it.
Hello. My name is Andy, and I'm an ice-cream freak. As in "Quick stop the car! There's a scoop shop!" Or "Honey, I'm just going to pick up five pints of Haagen-Dazs on my way home." Ice-cream compa...
Ice cream tastes best on vacation. So now we present an industry first: FORTUNE's combination ice-cream sampler and travel planner. Simply select an ice cream, and then plan your holiday around you...
It seems like easy money: Observe the merger activity in a rapidly consolidating industry. Buy stock in the company most likely to be purchased by some heavyweight on a buying spree. Then kick back...
Around the corner from my apartment, about a five-minute walk away, is a Haagen-Dazs shop, and a few blocks past that is a Carvel. Both of them offer a yummy array of cones, sundaes and floats, but...
Whom can we blame for our nation's descent into gluttony? Pin at least some of it on brothers-in-law and business partners Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins. The two harbored a most innocent ambition in ...
It's a classic marketing challenge: How do you announce that your product is "New and improved!" without tacitly acknowledging that it had previously been old and lousy? For every flashy graphic pr...
It's not enough that ice cream mavens Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, starting in an abandoned Vermont gas station two decades ago, have built a mini-empire that now generates $170 million in annua...
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's insists that profit and social responsibility are compatible. Lately, though, the company hasn't delivered on either front. Ben & Jerry's lost $1.9 million last year o...
FROZEN YOGURT is ice cream's healthful alternative, right? Not necessarily. A four-ounce serving of Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Frozen Yogurt, for example, contains 170 calories, 50mg of cholesterol and 50...
KID'S VIDEO Ask your younger kids if they'd like to learn something about music history or theory, and you'll probably hear a resounding ''NO.'' But sit them down at the computer with Rock and Bach...
PC INTERPRETER You said you were fluent in Spanish on your resume -- 11 years ago. Now the boss is sending you to Madrid in a week. The PC Interpreter talking translator by British Boston Co. of To...
REPRESENTATIVE Joe Kennedy is a man with a mission. ''I've seen in my own family the dangers of drug abuse,'' he says, bounding down the Capitol steps after a vote. ''I lost one of my younger broth...
INTERNATIONAL DAIRY QUEEN Practically a synonym for summer, Dairy Queen has been serving investors sweet results. The Minneapolis franchiser earned $26 million on sales of $283 million in the fisca...
An item in the Wall Street Journal the other day caused us to leap into Nexis searching for data discreditable to Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. We had long been dimly aware that this over-the-counter...
John Robbins, 42, onetime heir apparent to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, has a new convert in his crusade against such high-fat foods as ice cream: his father and company co-founder Irvine, ...
Now that Simplesse -- a no-calorie fat substitute created by Monsanto's NutraSweet subsidiary -- has sent visions of fat-free sugarplums dancing through consumers' heads, will such old-fashioned, f...
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