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5 Ways You Can Help Families in Need This Holiday Season

From Feeding America to Toys for Tots, here are five family-focused charities that could use your donations this holiday season.

11 Gifts for the Lazy Gourmand

The best gourmet gift is the one that requires little to no prep work to enjoy. Here are some options for the lazy gourmand in your life.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts Is Looking to Share Your Beloved Family Recipes

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is calling on the public to share their family recipes to be featured in a new digital exhibition.

Is your state sticking with the classics, or chowing down on cheesecake?

The Most Popular Holiday Dessert in Each State, Mapped

Gingerbread men, candy canes, and other classic Christmas desserts made the cut. Thanks to Utah, so did Jolly Ranchers.

The Rolling Stones and Rice Krispies once collaborated.

Snap, Crackle, Keith: When the Rolling Stones Recorded a Rice Krispies Jingle

Before the rock band hit it big, they wrote and performed a commercial jingle for the popular rice cereal.

What Are Sugar Plums?

Sugar plums didn't originally contain plums, and their name once doubled as a not-so-sweet euphemism.

A pasta vendor in Naples during the late 19th or early 20th century.

Anti-Pasta: When Italian Futurists Tried to Ban Pasta in Italy

Futurist leaders considered pasta an “absurd Italian gastronomic religion” that went against the grain of fascism (literally).

Never Got a Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine as a Kid? You Can Still Buy One This Holiday Season

The Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine hasn't gone off the market since it debuted in 1979. Here's how to get your hands on one.

The Reason McDonald’s Doesn’t Sell McRib Sandwiches Year-Round

The McRib is back, but don't expect it to stick around. The barbecue sandwich's seasonal status is part of its appeal.

You Can Make the Royal Family's Traditional Christmas Pudding At Home

This Christmas, add some class to your dinner table by making the royal family's traditional figgy pudding recipe.

“It’s a food that kept ancestors alive. It’s a survival food, but it’s also one of colonization and subjugation.”

The Complicated History of Fry Bread

Fry bread contains only four ingredients—flour, baking powder, salt, and water—but behind this extraordinarily simple recipe is a complex, and tragic, history.

Hate Brown Apple Slices? Use This Simple Trick to Keep Them Fresh

To stop your apple slices from browning, all you need are two things you likely already have at home.

You Can Now Buy Your Very Own Baby Yoda Space Macarons

The blue macarons gobbled up by The Child in the new season of 'The Mandalorian' are now at Williams Sonoma.

A Website Wants to Pay You $500 to Eat Pumpkin Pie

If you eat pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving like it's your job, now you can get paid to sample the dessert.

Thanksgiving Day menu from November 1917 at Fort D. A. Russell in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

5 World War I-Era Tips for Celebrating Thanksgiving in Strange Times

Thanksgiving may look different in 2020, but history provides some surprising insights on how to approach the menu, traditions, and celebrations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kraft Is Selling Gluten-Free Mac and Cheese for the First Time

For the first time ever, gluten-free consumers can enjoy a box of Kraft mac and cheese made from corn and rice instead of wheat.

Carving up a Thanksgiving turkey doesn't have to be a chore.

6 Expert Tips for Carving a Turkey Like a Pro

You can be the model host for your Thanksgiving gathering by demonstrating exceptional turkey-carving skills. Here's how to give someone the bird.

6 Expert Tips for Carving a Turkey Like a Pro

You can be the model host for your Thanksgiving gathering by demonstrating exceptional turkey-carving skills. Here's how to give someone the bird.

Use these tips to avoid Thanksgiving Day disasters.

8 Expert Tips to Make Thanksgiving Easy for First Timers

Thanks to coronavirus, many people will be tackling cooking a Thanksgiving meal for the first time this year. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help you prepare a great meal—and make it your own.

Waffle House's New Bacon & Kegs Beer Pairs Perfectly With Late-Night Breakfast

Waffle House and Oconee Brewing Company's new Bacon & Kegs beer is just as good with smothered hashbrowns as it is on its own.

Not every story ends as happily as it begins.

Botched the Turkey This Thanksgiving? Whole Foods Will Give You a Gift Card

Whether your Thanksgiving turkey bursts into flames or just tastes bad, Whole Foods has you covered.

Kimmy Lindell Ekström, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0

'All the Sugar and Twice the Caffeine': The Electrifying History of Jolt Cola

Jolt Cola debuted in 1986 and promised a departure from the "wimpy" Coca-Cola and Pepsi offerings by promising almost as much caffeine as soft drinks could legally contain.

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda) by Luis Meléndez, circa 1772

11 Wonderful Old Words for Lunch

In the 17th and 18th centuries, there were as many words for lunch as there were varieties of it. Below is a lexicon of some of these splendid words.

Walmart Recalls Romaine Lettuce from October 2020 Over E. coli Concerns

Tanimura & Antle romaine lettuce sold at Walmart has been recalled following an E. coli outbreak in six states. Here's what you need to know.

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