Our 12 Most Popular Stories This Week

It's not common to cook with a model, go duck hunting in Virginia and eat 9 things in Bangkok all in one week, but somehow we managed to pull it off before the snow struck the Northeast too hard to fly anywhere for a few days. That's what the 17 Winter Soups gallery is for; you're in no danger of freezing when Food Republic's around. While you're snowed in, peruse our Valentine's gift guides and make sure that special someone gets what's coming to them. But in a nice way. Here are our 12 most popular stories this week. 

Our 12 Most Popular Stories This Week

17 Winter Soup Recipes To Warm You Right Up

Steaming hot soup recipes for a cold winter night

It's cold out there. Seventeen bowls of soup cold. Thankfully, that happens to be the exact number of bowls of soup we compiled for what's gearing up to be quite the chilly week, hovering right below freezing.

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Valentine's Day Gift Guide: 13 Food And Drink Ideas For Men

Wives and girlfriends, we're looking at you

You’re likely going to want something in return for all your tireless efforts this Valentine's Day. That's why we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite male-oriented food and drink items. Send these suggestions to your spouse or girlfriend to hint at what you really want this Valentine’s Day.

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Bangkok: 9 Things To Eat At Chatuchak Market

When you have just a few hours in Bangkok...

There are worse places to have a 10-hour layover than Bangkok. It’s plenty of time to hop on the subway and head into the city for a few precious hours. I recently did just that, opting to spend a frenetic afternoon at the largest market in Thailand and one of the biggest on earth: the Chatuchak Weekend Market. Here's the day, in food porn.

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The Sexiest Sriracha-Themed Valentine's Day Gift For Your Special Lady, Ever

Give your girlfriend hot feet this Valentine's Day

I don't know what to get your girlfriend for Valentine's Day! This is what I've been telling my guy friends until one forwarded me these shoes he found on Pinterest. Now, my automatic answer is — get her these awesome sriracha platform stilettos with the classic rooster-on-red motif and a 4 to 5 1/2-inch heel from friendly custom design purveyors Hourglass Footwear.

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Here's How They Make Those Giant Doner Kebabs

A doner story so legit you'll still crave it after

There's a perfectly logical translation for doner. It's not "greatest drunk food of all time," or "just paid rent and now have no money." It means "to spin, rotate or otherwise turn around." Investigating how doner is made made me all the more adamant about eating it for lunch today. Everyone likes a success story.

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Model Jourdan Dunn's Cooking Show Is Not Your Usual Cooking Show

The London stunner on cooking for Jay-Z's site

Well Dunn with Jourdan Dunn is not your usual stand-and-stir chef's cooking show. It is in that this woman is cooking and standing there, stirring stuff, but it's not in that Jourdan Dunn is (a) a beautiful 23-year-old woman better known for walking runways for Prada than for cranking out cookbooks; and (b) it's as much about cooking as it is about Dunn's thoughts,...

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Photos: Scenes From Last Night's Tumblr And Food Republic Super Bowl Party

At Brooklyn Brewery, beer flowed, food was eaten

How was your Super Bowl party? Oh, ours? We just partnered with Tumblr and Brooklyn Brewery to throw what was one of the more epic Bowl bashes.

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Hack Of The Day: How To Make Sea Urchin Spaghetti At The Office. Yes, Really.

Preparing sea urchin pasta is surprisingly easy

A lot of Japanese menus don't feature uni-don, sea urchin over sushi rice, though most places will make it if you ask (and will be only too happy to charge you an arm and a leg). It's really good in a rice ball, something I'm a huge fan of hiding crazy little surprises in, but my very favorite way to eat sea urchin is in pasta, preferably spaghetti. You can't have sea urchin...

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10 Bacons That Are Not Messing Around

A deeply satisfying investigation

The fine folks at the Men’s Health Guy Gourmet blog want you to know that bacon is still in business, even with public outcry that the unctuous foodstuff is “over” and some guy making a Jell-O version that is simply disturbing. They tested over 60 varieties, pegging ten for their porcine hall of fame.

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For French Montana, Growing Up In Morocco Meant Eating Lions, Tigers, Giraffe Neck

Rapper now enjoys the finer foods in life

Moroccan-born rapper French Montana is the founder and CEO of Cocaine City Records and, as his business card implies, is into the finer things in life — which includes his choice of lunch on this January afternoon when we join him in a Midtown Manhattan recording studio. He’s insisted on ordering lunch for Food Republic and a crew of producers and record executives...

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How To Read The Earliest Food Writers

Before Bourdain there was Brillat-Savarin

But what a shame that we neglect the culinary sages who have been lost to history. What, you say you can quote Julia Child like scripture? Let’s skip that grand dame and go way back to honor the food writing stars of yore, foodies before they were called foodies.

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Virginia Duck Hunting Is A Southern Chef Tradition

Walking in the forest outside Richmond

In 2012 Chris Hastings won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: South for his work at the Hot and Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, Alabama. From time to time we have him write in to tell us what is on his mind, and on his stove. 

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