Early yesterday, President Barack Obama  jokingly told a Bloomberg reporter he might serve America's favorite drink, the Slurpee, during an upcoming meeting with the incoming House Speaker, Ohio Rep. John Boehner and referred to Slurpee as "a very delicious drink."

"We are not surprised by President Obama's comments about Slurpee, which is non-partisan and has been bringing people together for more than 40 years," said Joe DePinto, 7-Eleven, Inc.'s president and CEO.  "We have made an offer to the White House to install Slurpee machines and to host a Slurpee Summit." 

A lot of time and creativity will go into explaining what happened tonight, but the most important question to answer is what are our elected leaders - both outgoing and incoming - are prepared to do right now to help America get past this economic crisis.

Tomorrow, one in four kids will wake up hungry.  Nearly 27 million Americans will be looking for work.  Hard-hit families will still be using credit cards to pay for basics like food and utility bills, and every minute, two more families will be foreclosed on.

Election Day is almost here... and your members of Congress are paying attention to you!

Now’s the time to get child hunger on their agenda, ensuring that the world’s hungriest and most vulnerable children aren’t forgotten.

The U.S. Congress has a chance to reach 1 million more hungry children each day with a healthy school meal. Tell your members of Congress that you need to know where they stand on this issue before you cast your vote.

A heated debate took place last week in the blogosphere over a review posted to Yelp about a Scottsdale, Arizona based restaurant.  Dine & Cook's editorial team invited both parties involved to present what happened in their words.

After a negative review placed by local blogger Joel LaTondress on Amy's Baking Company was uploaded, the owners of the business responded back in force.  The incident went viral, making headines both locally and around the country.

Dine and Cook's launch is a reason to celebrate and we are asking you, the reader to get involved.  We are trying to change the face of food information on the internet by treating it as an actual news medium.  That means this site is structured as a media outlet.

We want a very strong editorial page, we all have opinions on food and now it's time to take that a step further.  We want to start debate on all topics food-beverage, be it your thoughts on a perfect meal, organic labeling or eating local-- we want to debate it all.