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National Coffee Day 2021: Where To Find The Best Freebies And Deals Bangkok Click Studio/Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/Updated: Sept. 29, 2021 1:42 pm EST Have you ever thought to yourself that every food imaginable seems to have its own national day? Well, as it so happens, you’re at least partially right. While there’s no National Balut Day, nor a Cream of Wheat Day, food blogger Scott Roberts compiled a list showing that just about every day of the year does indeed have at least one food to celebrate....

Pepsi And Frito-Lay’s Funny Playoff Ad Is Packed With NFL Legends YouTube | PepsiCo By Kate Hagan Gallup/Jan. 15, 2022 5:07 pm EST No matter who’s playing the game, most can agree that Super Bowl commercials and game-day food are essential pieces of the championship. This year, PepsiCo is getting started on its famous Super Bowl commercials early with a “Road to the Super Bowl LVI” ad featuring some of the biggest names in NFL history....

Ranking The Best And Worst Man V. Food Challenges Travel Channel/YouTube By Joel Stice AND Robyn Hunt/Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 3:12 pm EST There are some TV gigs where it’s easy to sit on your couch and think “anybody could do that.” “Man v. Food” is definitely not one of those TV jobs just anybody could do. From 2008-2011, Adam Richman crisscrossed the United States “in search of America’s greatest pig out spots....

Sandra Lee Is Getting Instagram Motivated With This Toned Gym Pic lev radin/Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Nov. 4, 2021 8:43 am EST Celebrity chef and writer Sandra Lee is someone who likes to focus on her fitness goals and make sure that she’s pushing herself to achieve them. According to Women’s Health, Lee decided to make a few changes to her diet in a bid to become healthier. In the beginning, she focused on introducing more fruits and vegetables to her eating schedule along with other options such as eggs, soup, and sauerkraut....

Surprising Things You Never Knew About Martha Stewart Getty Images By Karen Miner/Updated: Oct. 7, 2021 12:11 pm EST Everyone knows the prim and proper Martha Stewart from her television shows featuring DIY crafts and oh-so-delicious recipes, but what else do you know about her? Of course we’re all aware that she’s a super successful businesswoman, a lifestyle maven, a cookbook author, a mom and grandma, a curator of all “good things,” and — though this probably isn’t how she’d like to be remembered— a former inmate....

The Best Wine To Pair With Your Thanksgiving Dinner PhotoMIX-Company from Pixabay By Katie Lenhardt/Nov. 16, 2021 11:24 am EST Friends and family everywhere are finally coming together again for the Thanksgiving holiday after a pandemic kept us socially distanced last year. Much wine will be poured either in celebration of the reunion or to drown out what your crazy uncle just said. Whatever your reason is for popping the cork, a wine that pairs perfectly with your Thanksgiving dinner will make you truly thankful....

The Ingredient Aarón Sánchez Hates To Cook With Noam Galai/Getty Images By Boshika Gupta/Oct. 26, 2021 2:52 pm EST Celebrity chef and “Chopped” judge Aarón Sánchez is a culinary star who knows his way around the kitchen. He told Insider that he always relies on simple recipes when he’s preparing yummy dishes for his family. One of his top dishes? Nachos with loads of cheese! The chef explained, “The cool thing about nachos is that you can be very creative with the combination of toppings and it’s a great place to use things that you have leftover....

The One Food Fans Think Costco Should Start Selling Tada Images/Shutterstock By Lauren Rothman/Oct. 26, 2021 3:39 pm EST Ah, Costo. If you’ve ever shopped the aisles of this wholesale giant — which has more than 560 locations around the United States — then you know the company does its best to satisfy shoppers’ sweet tooths. Costco offers an astounding variety of sweet treats, from mochi ice cream minis and fancy French crème brûlée to tubs of chocolate-covered almonds and raisins....

The Only Way To Eat Soup Dumplings, According To Andrew Zimmern Rick Kern/Getty Images By Karen Hart/Updated: Oct. 19, 2021 4:17 pm EST Soup dumplings are delicious. There’s a good reason the Dragon Warrior Po is always shoveling as many as he can into his mouth in “Kung Fu Panda.” Also known as Xiao Long Bao or XLB, soup dumplings are quite tasty, and when done right, these babies can result in a gastronomic awakening your taste buds will not soon forget....

The Pastry Chef Duff Goldman Idolizes Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images By Justina Huddleston/Dec. 17, 2021 3:08 pm EST We always wonder who people who are great in their fields get their inspiration from. How does someone wake up one day, for instance, and say, “I’m going to make the most outlandishly decorated and flavorful cakes I can manage”? Well, it turns out that for cake-maker, television personality, and cookbook author Duff Goldman, that inspiration came from another famous pastry chef: Jaques Torres....

The Pie Alex Guarnaschelli Made On Her First Food Network Show Bryan Bedder/Getty Images By Erich Barganier/Nov. 23, 2021 1:17 pm EST Few cooking personalities know how to put a pie together like Alex Guarnaschelli. According to People Magazine, this Iron Chef learned how to make the perfect apple pie by taking inspiration from her mother and uses ginger and orange zest to make the flavors pop. On the other end of the tart spectrum, Guarnaschelli perfected her blueberry pie and relies on lemon juice and blueberry jam to make the filling taste great, per Food Network....

The Real Reason McDonald’s Started To Offer Supersizes 8th.creator/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/Nov. 18, 2021 11:47 am EST “Would you like to supersize that?” Once a common question asked by McDonald’s workers, now at best an archaic joke. It wasn’t all that long ago that one could upgrade an already generous portion of fries to something that could probably substitute for a meal all on its own. It was a time when you could order a soda so large you’d probably still be drinking it when you got home from McDonald’s....

The Secret Ingredient Eitan Bernath Uses To Make Even Better S’mores - Exclusive Instagram By Hanna Claeson/Sept. 8, 2021 12:50 pm EST Eitan Bernath has a thing for s’mores. He loves s’mores so much that he taught YouTube how to make Belgian s’mores waffles. You’re missing out if you haven’t seen him deep fry s’mores, an experiment which he described to his YouTube audience as “heavenly.” On TikTok, he made s’mores with homemade marshmallows and a blow torch for his 1....

The Simple Trick Dolly Parton Uses For Fluffy Scrambled Eggs Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock By Amanda Tarlton/Feb. 5, 2022 5:43 pm EST Whether you’re home or at a diner, eggs are a staple when it comes to breakfast. While you can prepare them a lot of different ways — hard-boiled, over easy, poached, and sunny side-up, to name a few — scrambled is arguably one of the most popular methods. In fact, a 2021 survey by OnePoll found that scrambled eggs are one of the few dishes Americans say they can confidently cook without a recipe....

The Times Square Store That Was Dedicated Entirely To Pop-Tarts Neilson Barnard/Getty Images By Emily Weaver/Jan. 20, 2022 4:57 pm EST Times Square is basically a Monopoly board, and tourists are just the little race cars, dogs, top hats, thimbles, and battleships trying to avoid the “go directly to jail, do not pass go” corner space — or in this case, the street performers who pull you in to participate in their stunt tricks....

The Truth About Tom Fletcher From The Great British Baking Show: Season 12 Netflix By Boshika Gupta/Updated: Nov. 29, 2021 11:20 am EST The latest season of “The Great British Bake Off” has been an indisputable hit. According to Variety, the final episode managed to attract around 6.9 million viewers, who excitedly waited to find out who would be crowed as the winner. The bakers who were competing fiercely for top honors were Chigs Parmar, Crystelle Pereira, and Giuseppe Dell’Anno....

This Disgusting Fast Food Fryer Has TikTok Refusing To Eat Out Again timallenphoto/Shutterstock By Chase Shustack/Dec. 27, 2021 3:45 pm EST There’s something oddly tantalizing about fried food. Sure, you know that the batter-dipped, flash-fried hunk of fish or chicken isn’t exactly screaming “superfood,” but you’d be wrong in saying that it doesn’t taste pretty darn good. It seems that mankind’s inherent obsession with frying anything we can get our hands on has been flowing through bloodlines for centuries, from the ancient Egyptians and Romans frying foods in animal fats (via Gambero Rosso) to state fair food trucks offering up deep-fried Oreos and peanut butter cups to gnaw on in between getting whipped around on a Tilt-A-Whirl (via Thrillist)....

This Former Burger King Employee’s Bold Tattoo Is Going Viral Grzegorz Czapski/Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/Dec. 6, 2021 3:41 pm EST When the pandemic hit businesses back in 2020, it looked like the job market might change forever. Fast forward over a year, and the effects of this sea change continue to influence the American job market. According to BBC, COVID-19 caused a massive amount of workers to either quit their jobs or completely switch careers....

This Former McDonald’s CEO Thinks There Could Soon Be A ‘Catastrophe’ 8th.creator/Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/Jan. 5, 2022 2:24 pm EST Ever since the pandemic hit, more and more workers have been leaving their jobs. According to Insider, this trend still hasn’t slowed down, and a record 4.5 million workers resigned from their jobs in November of 2021 alone. That number beat October 2021’s previous record of 4.2 million workers. Fortune reports that the food sector has faced some of the most extreme numbers; hires in the sector have remained consistent, while resignations have increased, signaling that some employees are quitting in favor of better opportunities in the food market....

This Is The Easiest Way To Cut An Apricot Shyripa Alexandr/Shutterstock By Kathryn Shelton/Oct. 25, 2021 7:58 pm EST Ah, the sweet apricot. This delectable stone fruit was nicknamed “the precious one” by the early Romans, according to NPR, and for good reason. These little gems are one of the most easily bruised of the stone fruits. Like anything so delicate, they need to be treated with kid-glove tenderness, which makes cutting the apricot correctly a skill worth perfecting....