One of my favorite part about road trips (and life in general) is getting to stop at a diner for breakfast. It’s always the same experience: the thick, heady smell of coffee and syrup, passive-aggressive waiters, the sun pointing directly into your eyes, a plate piled high with sausage, eggs, toast, bacon and pancakes, and [...]

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Valentine’s Day may be over, but chances are you’ll be wading through a leftover pile of white, pink and red offal for the next month or so. Cheesy cards, mounds of designer chocolates, heart-shaped pizzas and garish pink teddy bears are just part of the mound of refuse retail stores pump out every year, essentially [...]

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It seems as though yogurt is all the rage these days. Although the Dannon Oikos Greek yogurt commercial with John Stamos below didn’t exactly sweep the charts for the best Super Bowl commercial, it definitely shows that Greek yogurt is growing in popularity (and that domestic violence is a-okay!). The subject of many emails from [...]

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If you live in the upper half of the United States, you know it’s cooler (in every sense of the word) and that soup makes a great meal during the winter months. But the question here is how to make a meal of soup a little more entertaining, since it can be kinda bland and [...]

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  See this? You’re looking at Giada’s Roman-Style Chicken, made by yours truly. The florescent lighting in my kitchen and sub-par iPhone camera don’t do its beauty justice, but trust me, this recipe was a work of art – a combination of everything good in Italian food. I encourage you to click on the link [...]

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It’s finally here! The holiday we’ve all been waiting for. I know it’s been difficult making your way through Christmas and New Year’s Eve with this little gem on the horizon, but now you can celebrate because it’s finally National Popcorn Day!!! Now, I know everyone celebrates this revered day a little differently. Personally, my family [...]

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“Barbecue.” It’s amazing how one word can encompass so many facets of an entire meat-eating tradition. At its core, barbecue means cooking meat over the hot smoke of a fire. From there, it can refer to anything from the process by which the meat is cooked to the type of wood used in the fire. [...]

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My dad is a pretty healthy man, but there were always two foods that made him lose control. The first was plates of cheese, crackers and sausage. The second were in-the-shell peanuts. He would take a giant bag of them down to the TV room with him along with an empty paper grocery sack and [...]

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Black licorice: you either love it or you hate it. There is no in-between. So…

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Nothing says “happy holidays” like gut rot – er – I mean, egg nog. While some people love this deadly and delicious combination of milk and eggs, some can’t stand it. At any rate, Andy’s history of eggnog proved this drink has stood the test of time. As JT pointed out, some varieties of eggnog get some [...]

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