Our 12 Most Popular Stories This Week

It's been a crazy week here at Food Republic HQ, what with contributing editor Matt Rodbard off running amok in Australia (you can follow his exploits on our Instagram page), Super Bowl just around the corner, a slow cooker giveaway in full effect and that lady down the hall SCREAMING into her phone all the time. Still, we wanted to make sure we came through with our usual assortment of unexpected news stories and profiles, killer recipes, food porn, advice about what to eat for lunch, encouragements to start drinking in the morning and whatever else came across our plates. And thus, we give you, our 12 most popular stories for the week of January 16:

1. Chili Con Carne: The Anti-Recipe
2. No Fatty Snacks For Kelly Slater
3. Health Advice for Hard Drinkers
4. Farmer Cheese Pie Recipe
5. Top 10 Bars in Hong Kong
6. Spinach Artichoke Balls Recipe
7. 100 Chinese Food/Drink Words and Phrases
8. Addi Hou Does Not Starve For Fashion
9. Orange Marmalade Cocktail Recipe
10. Marcus Samuelsson's Swedish Meatballs Recipe
11. Building A Better Bratwurst
12. Do Aphrodisiacs Really Work?