Kentucky Fried Chicken is offering $500 worth of grilled chicken in exchange for information leading to the safe return of a missing Colonel Sanders bust.
The 24-inch bronze bust vanished from a Berea, Ky., KFC just before closing time on Jan. 31.
"There were three men in the restaurant, and the employee went to the kitchen," spokesman Rick Maynard recounted. "When she returned, the three men and the Colonel had flown the coop."
The bust has graced the restaurant's dining room since the 1970s, making the outlet one of the few to house expensive KFC-related art. According to Maynard, the bust – depicting a jolly Sanders in his "trademark glasses and string tie" – is worth $1,500.
"Folks who frequent the restaurant kind of miss it," Maynard says. "I think it's been replaced with a potted plant."
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Peanuts Newly Popular With Mississippi Farmers
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Mississippi's peanut production has sprouted so significantly over the last decade that the state's growers association last month generated $100,000 to send three truckloads of peanut butter to Haiti.
"Peanut butter is the perfect food in a situation like this," the association's executive director, Malcolm Broome, explained in a release. "Peanut butter is portable, nonperishable and a very good source of protein."
Not long ago, a few trucks could have held the state's entire peanut crop. A strict quota system kept Mississippi's farmers from planting the legume that's long been a staple of Georgia and Virginia fields. Since the quota was lifted in 2002, Mississippi's peanut acreage has surged from 2,000 to 20,000, with production increasing every year but one, when weather got in the way.
"We've had a lot of people really interested in peanuts," says Mike Howell, area agronomist for Mississippi State University's extension service.
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Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes - Feast Your Eyes
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The wafting smell of breakfast pastries baking in the oven is one of life's simplest pleasures – especially if that heavenly aroma is cinnamon-scented.
But why limit decadently gooey cinnamon rolls to the morning? The blog frites & fries offers up a solution -- all the flavors of a soft, chewy cinnamon roll infused into a cupcake.
The batter is a revised version of a butter cake recipe from Gourmet -- with the addition of cinnamon and golden brown sugar. After the cupcakes are baked, each is topped with a small dab of cream cheese frosting and a bite-sized chunk of cinnamon roll (sprinkles are so passé).
And if you want to eat these traditionally dessert-time treats for breakfast, we won't judge.
Become a member of the Slashfood Flickr pool to get a shot of having your photos featured in Feast Your Eyes.
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Tröegs Nugget Nectar - Beer of the Week
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Now, Harrisburg, Pa.'s Tröegs puts out numerous knockouts. The coffee-infused Java Head Stout combines a.m. and p.m. pleasures, while the DreamWeaver Wheat is tangy and banana-tinged. Then there's the Hopback Amber Ale, so-called because the beer circulates through a hop-packed vessel. It's a heady and aromatic home run. But Hopback's bigger brother, the Nugget Nectar, is a grand slam.
"We wanted to take some of the traits inherent to Hopback Amber Ale -- mainly the sweet finish of the caramel malt -- and interpret that into something different," explains brewery manager Ed Yashinsky.
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'Top Chef' Walking Tour Debuts in New York City
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With 'Sex and the City' and 'Gossip Girl' tours already underway in New York City, it only seemed inevitable that some enterprising foodie would concoct a 'Top Chef' walking tour.
Because the popular cooking show is filmed in a different city every season, this tour focuses on season five -- which was filmed in Manhattan. The tours are conducted by professional chefs who offer culinary tips and fun quizzes while schlepping around the Big Apple.
Places visited on the tour include DiPalo's Fine Food in Little Italy, an old school store that sells homemade mozzarella and scrumptious soppressata, Wichcraft, a restaurant owned by Tom Colicchio, the head judge of the reality TV series and 24 Prince, a Soho bistro co-owned by Nikki Cascone who was actually a contestant on the show. Whenever she is available, Cascone drops by to chat to the tour group about what it was like being a reality television show contestant. (According to A.P. she yaks about being evaluated by mental-health professionals. We guess that Bravo isn't keen on having sociopaths in close proximity to sharpened knives).
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Free Pancakes at IHOP on February 23
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Flapjack fans have a reason to celebrate Fat Tuesday a week later.
On Feb. 23, IHOP will offer a free short stack of their buttermilk pancakes to every customer from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. In return, pancaking patrons are asked to leave a courtesy short stack of their own for Children's Miracle Network hospitals.
IHOP first celebrated "National Pancake Day" in 2006. Since that time, the restaurant chain has raised more than $3.25 million and served more than 6.1 million pancakes. This year, IHOP hopes to reach a total fundraising effort of $5 million -- making for five million in five years.
Last year's National Pancake Day was IHOP's largest one-day event in the company's 51-year history -- proving free food for a good cause is always a reason to "flip" out.
To find an IHOP near you or to donate online, visit www.ihoppancakeday.com.
Think You Know the Foods of Love?
Well-schooled in food that will put you in the mood? Test your knowledge of aphrodisiacs with this lustful quiz!
Aphrodisiac Foods: How and Why They Increase Desire
The ____ in garlic is said to stir sexual desires?
- Spice
- Kick
- Smell
- Heat
True or False: Aphrodisiacs were first sought out as a remedy for various sexual anxieties, including fears of inadequate performance as well as a need to increase fertility.
- True
- False
The love goddess Aphrodite was said to consider what kind of bird sacred for its amorous nature?
- Sparrows
- Owls
- Doves
- Crows
Asparagus is frequently enjoyed as an aphrodisiac food because of its:
- Smell
- Health benefits
- Phallic shape
- Color
The Aztecs referred to chocolate as:
- The ultimate aphrodisiac
- Nourishment of the Gods
- A must-have food
- A substitute for caffeine
Who was first to consider oysters as aphrodisiacs?
- Aztecs
- Greeks
- Romans
- Egyptians
The musky scent of truffles is said to stimulate the:
- Skin
- Libido
- Heart
- Brain
This aphrodisiac is most likely a myth created to get people to eat this healthy vegetable.
- Green Pepper
- Cucumber
- Peas
- Broccoli
The Aztecs called the avocado tree
James Kent to Head Team U.S.A. at Bocuse d'Or
Keith Ferris, The Culinary Institute of America
James Kent, sous chef at New York City's Eleven Madison Park restaurant, will represent the U.S. at the 2011 Bocuse d'Or cooking competition in Lyon, France, Nation's Restaurant News reported.
He will be assisted by fellow Eleven Madison Park sous chef Tom Allan. Kent beat out 11 other semifinalists from around the country at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. on Saturday.
(Click here for more on the American semifinalists from Slashfood.)
The Bocuse d'Or competition was started in 1987 by French chef Paul Bocuse to "o broaden the public understanding of the rigors involved in culinary excellence," NRN reported. The biannual competition pits teams from 24 countries against one another in a haute-cuisine cook-off.
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