By the spring of 2006, Maury Boyd had grown used to dealing with catastrophe. At 13, he had started working for McKinnon Corporation, his stepfather's family's citrus company comprised of thousands of acres of orange groves in Florida. In the 50 years since then, he'd helped the groves recover from...

Paula Deen's legal troubles are over -- for now.

On Friday afternoon, Judge William T. Moore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia signed an order of dismissal in Jackson v. Deen [pdf], the discrimination lawsuit first filed in May 2012 that...

Chef David Burke is known as one of the country's most innovative chefs; he's been credited with inventing salmon pastrami, cheesecake lollipops and (implausibly) tuna tartare. His latest endeavor isn't quite as groundbreaking as all that -- but it's still pretty epic.

This week, the chef...

August 16 is National Rum Day. Even though HuffPost Taste basically assumes that all national food days were made up by some random guy on Twitter, we're always glad to have an excuse to drink at work, so we decided to celebrate with another edition of our recurring series of...

A latter-day, fast-food-loving Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in, say, 2007, then awoke today and went into any of his favorite restaurant chains for a snack would be in for a big surprise.

Over the past few years, almost every major brand has overhauled its interior design, its menu...

Last week, Taco Bell's public relations team sent a sample of the new flavor of the chain's wildly popular Doritos Locos Taco to The Huffington Post's office and asked us to guess what it would be called. Because it tasted and looked almost identical to Flamas Doritos, and Taco Bell...

You may soon have to cough up a lot more bacon if you want to buy bacon. A mysterious virus has been killing great numbers of piglets since it was first discovered in the U.S. herd in April, cutting into the supply of pork and pushing prices way...

Taco Bell has finally revealed the newest flavor of its wildly popular line of Doritos Locos Tacos, which first hit stores across the country in March 2012. Sort of.

The world's biggest Mexican fast food chain brought several samples of the newest member of the growing clan, which...

I'm not a big fan of martinis. They often strike me as too astringent and bracing, with too much bitterness and too little acidity. And I suspect that I'm not alone. Despite their central place in the cocktail pantheon (and the burst of popularity the first season of "Mad Men"...

The royal baby will never eat a Taco Bell kids' meal.

Exactly one minute after the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her 8 pound, 6 ounce prince, Taco Bell, the world's largest chain of Mexican fast food restaurants, announced that it would be discontinuing its line of kids' meals...

On July 13, 1993, a 28-year-old chef opened an 850-square-foot taqueria on Evans Avenue near the University of Denver. He had no great ambitions for the place. Mostly he hoped it would throw off enough cash to support the high-end restaurant he'd left his dream job at Jeremiah Towers' Stars...

A Denny's restaurant in northwest Washington state closed last week for a "deep cleaning" after an undercover video -- embedded above -- exposed stomach-turning filth throughout the premises.

The video showed layers of old food coating the spaces beneath kitchen appliances, Dirty dishes and cooking utensils are...

Ballantine Books may have been put off enough by Paula Deen's racially insensitive history to cancel the October release of her next cookbook, Paula Deen's New Testament, despite enough receiving pre-orders to briefly make the book the bestselling item on Amazon. But the cancellation hasn't stopped...

The Supreme Court's ruling in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which effectively legalized gay marriage in California, could have a very surprising beneficiary: Paula Deen.

On Monday, the celebrity chef's lawyers cited Chief Justice John Roberts' decision on the case in a filing submitted to the U.S. District Court in...

Late on Friday afternoon, Ballantine Books, the publisher of "Paula Deen's New Testament," announced that it was dropping the cookbook from its fall release lineup. Even after so many other companies abandoned Paula, this came as a major shock.

Why? Over the past week...

Eight days after revelations of Paula Deen's racially insensitive remarks first came to light in the National Enquirer, fallout continues for the Queen of Southern Cuisine.

On Thursday afternoon, home-shopping network QVC announced on its blog that it would be "taking a pause" from its relationship with...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) prides himself on his record of fighting pork in the state legislature. But he's never taken that mandate as literally as he did Thursday, when he vetoed a bill that would have banned the use of gestation crates on pig farms in...

London-based restaurant chain Pret-A-Manger first entered the American market in 2000 with a location in New York City. For the most part, they've had a seamless transition to the ways of the states. American customers have enjoyed their fast service and fresh-tasting salads and sandwiches enough for the company to...

It's been a week of anxious mornings for celebrity chef Ted Allen, host of the hit Food Network show "Chopped."

He his partner of 20 years, interior designer Barry Rice, have woken up each day wondering if the Supreme Court would finally issue rulings in two key same-sex marriage cases,...

The Food Network's decision to drop Paula Deen from its lineup on Friday evening made it clear that the Savannah chef's career was in freefall. But she may not have hit rock bottom yet.

In a segment on the scandal Monday morning, CBS This Morning...