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Creamy Winter Squash Soup Recipe By Jennifer En/Updated: Sept. 21, 2021 9:47 am EST Prep time: 10 minutes. Cook time: 50 minutes. Servings: 4. In the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you that I enjoy soups more than the average person. That said, who doesn’t want to sit down to a warm nourishing bowl of creamy soup on a cold winter’s night? Even if this nourishing meal option is relegated to the sidelines for most of the year, at least it gets some much deserved love during the chilly months....

Florence Pugh Is Back With A New Recipe On Cooking With Flo Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Jan. 30, 2022 2:22 pm EST Fans of Florence Pugh received a treat on Instagram last Friday. She uploaded a new recipe to her Instagram account, marking the resumption of her social media-based show, “Cooking with Flo.” According to uploads by the Florence Pugh YouTube fan account Cooking with Flo, which compiles the short stories into long videos, the last time Pugh shared a recipe, it was for a veggie bake back in August....

How Free Samples Helped Turn Coca-Cola Into A Food Industry Giant monticello/Shutterstock By James Lewis/Nov. 22, 2021 12:19 pm EST Building a business is not for the faint-hearted. Starting a company from scratch is something only truly determined people can accomplish, as it requires relentless enthusiasm, dedication, and funding. Even if you do have the resilience and the gusto to set out on a business venture, you also need a limitless imagination to create a brilliant product and marketing plan....

How Mountain Dew’s Classic Flavor Has Changed Over The Years MDV Edwards/Shutterstock By Colin McCandless/Dec. 14, 2021 4:36 pm EST These days, it seems like a new flavor of Mountain Dew comes out every week, each one more “extreme” (read: caffeinated) than the next. Often associated with gaming culture and adventure sports, the sugar-saturated, caffeine-packed soda offers a sweet way to stay wired for hours on end. However, the classic flavor of Mountain Dew has a fascinating backstory....

How Organic Food Is Lying To You David Silverman/Getty Images By Erich Barganier/Nov. 10, 2021 4:56 pm EST When the topic of organic food comes up, many people associate the phrase with images of health and wholesome produce. But contrary to popular belief, the term “organic” might mean something different than what you expect. According to the USDA, organic produce has to get grown using soil that lacks synthetic fertilizer or pesticide, while organic meat has to get raised in a living condition that mimics their natural surroundings, feed on organic foodstuffs, and not receive antibiotics or hormones....

Instant Pot Risotto Recipe Kristen Carli/Mashed By Kristen Carli AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Sept. 15, 2021 10:18 am EST Oh, risotto. It’s easy to have a love/hate relationship with this creamy, delicious, rice-based dish. We love it because, well, it’s delicious. We also kinda hate it because making risotto can be very perplexing and time consuming. But not when you have registered dietician Kristen Carli’s Instant Pot risotto recipe. As she told Mashed, “Because this recipe is made in the Instant Pot, you save the 20 minutes of active stirring that stove-top risotto requires....

Julia Directors Share Their Biggest Surprises While Making The Film - Exclusive Interview Brian Leatart. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics By David Klein/Nov. 12, 2021 10:56 am EST What more could possibly be said about Julia Child? A lot, apparently. With their soon-to-be-released documentary “Julia,” co-directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West present a deep dish dive into the life of the beloved icon, serving up an occasionally complicated yet immensely satisfying recipe for her massive success in the culinary arts and beyond....

Marcus Samuelsson Welcomes New Daughter In Touching Instagram Post lev radin/Shutterstock By Gina LaVecchia Ragone/Jan. 31, 2022 1:49 pm EST Marcus Samuelsson is one of the GOATS (greatest of all time) in the culinary world. Emigrating to the United States at just 24-years-old to work as an apprentice at the Scandinavian restaurant Aquavit, the talented young chef quickly rose to the ranks of executive chef, earning the dining establishment national acclaim (via Twisted)....

McDonald’s Claims Its Equal Pay Problem Is Finally Solved Pavlovska Yevheniia/Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/Oct. 20, 2021 2:50 pm EST Earlier in 2021, McDonald’s pledged to increase gender parity within the business over the course of a decade, per BBC. This ambitious goal had some major goalposts, as the fast food empire strives to raise diversity in senior leadership positions by 6% in the next four years. To incentivize getting to these benchmarks, it was reported that executive bonuses would be determined by meeting these goals....

Outback’s Bloomin’ Onion Homemade Recipe Lindsay D. Mattison/Mashed By Lindsay D. Mattison/Updated: Sept. 15, 2021 9:40 am EST When most people think about Outback Steakhouse, they probably think about the Bloomin’ Onion. It might not be authentic Australian food, but this appetizer is beyond popular. FoodBeast reports that one in four appetizers ordered at Outback are the Bloomin’ Onion, and the company sold 40 million blooms between 2012 and 2015. That’s a lot of deep-fried onions!...

Over 26% Agree This Sandwich Shop Has The Best Quality Meat Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock By Lauren Cahn/Sept. 8, 2021 9:24 pm EST Not too long ago, Mashed conducted a survey to identify which, among seven well-known sandwich shops, had the worst quality meat. The choices the participants were given were Blimpie, Jersey Mike’s, Jimmy John’s, Penn Station, Quiznos, Subway, and Which Which. Nearly 41% of the 603 respondents pointed to Subway as being the worst of the worst....

Pepper Teigen Tells Us Everything We Need To Know About Thai Food - Exclusive Interview Food Network By Hanna Claeson/Updated: Nov. 3, 2021 1:30 pm EST Yes, Pepper Teigen has adopted the nickname Pepper Thai because she loves spice. She and her daughter Chrissy have their own special spice mixture that they put on everything – literally, everything — Teigen says, even sushi. But Pepper’s reputation as spice-obsessed may have outgrown even her....

Read This Before Taking Your Knives To Williams Sonoma Yuriy Golub/Shutterstock By Nick Desimone/Dec. 21, 2021 9:18 am EST Anyone who has worked in a professional kitchen will tell you: A dull knife is a dangerous knife, and using one is one of the worst knife mistakes you can make. For safety (and also for precision and ease of use), it’s imperative to sharpen your knives regularly. While honing, which is the process of running your knife along a long, hand-held steel rod called a honing steel, can help keep the edge sharp on your knife between sharpening sessions, it doesn’t remove any actual metal from the blade, reports Allrecipes....

Red Lobster Is Celebrating National Seafood Month With This Kids Meal Deal Facebook By Aimee Lamoureux/Oct. 11, 2021 4:59 pm EST While Halloween might get all the attention once October comes around, this month doesn’t just mark the beginning of spooky season. October is also National Seafood Month, so anyone who is a fan of fish, lobster, or anything else that swims in the ocean won’t want to miss the chance to celebrate with some tasty seafood dishes....

Starbucks Wants To Send You ‘Good Vibes’ With New Text Message Promo AngieYeoh/Shutterstock By Aimee Lamoureux/Jan. 20, 2022 1:57 pm EST We’re only a few weeks into 2022, which means it’s still the start of a new year. For many people, that means making resolutions, committing to healthier habits, and trying to make positive changes in the upcoming 12 months. And this year, Starbucks wants to help customers start things off with extra good vibes through the launch of their newest promo: the “Good Vibe Messenger....

The Food Show You Forgot Bob Saget Appeared On Everett Collection/Shutterstock By Karen Hart/Jan. 9, 2022 10:25 pm EST Bob Saget, everyone’s favorite dad from the sitcom “Full House” and host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” died in a Florida hotel, according to a report from TMZ. The Orange County, Florida Sheriff’s office shared the sad news on Twitter, writing, “Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel room....

The Real Reason In-N-Out Is Suing A Michigan Burger Chain Ming Yeung/Getty Images By Erich Barganier/Dec. 7, 2021 12:33 pm EST In-N-Out has been on both sides of a number of lawsuits during 2021. According to Nation’s Restaurant News, the fast food chain filed a lawsuit against the Australian burger restaurant In & Out Aussie Burgers over the use of the restaurant name and for causing confusion on a variety of delivery apps....

The Real Reason Walmart Is Temporarily Closing Some US Stores Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock By Felix Behr/Dec. 17, 2021 3:40 pm EST Walmart stores across the country are continuing to close with little warning. On December 7, mLive belatedly learned that a store in Kalamazoo County, Michigan had closed earlier that day while WSAZ reported on how an Ashland, Kentucky Walmart would close in two day’s time, on December 12. The reason given to both of these news sources was that the store had to hire deep clean specialists to combat the uptick in COVID-19 cases in their respective areas....

The Time Kellogg’s Went To The Moon MDV Edwards/Shutterstock By Molly Clark/Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 12:35 pm EST Astronaut foods have come a long way since Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first person to ever eat in space, enjoyed a meal of beef and liver paste served in a squeezable, toothpaste-like tube onboard the Vostok 1 in 1961. Per Business Insider, Gagarin was also lucky enough to have chocolate sauce served from a similar tube for dessert....

The Top 5 Recipes Of 2021, According To Google Sokor Space/Shutterstock By Justina Huddleston/Dec. 9, 2021 1:30 pm EST We didn’t know what the food scene of 2021 was going to be like. Even though lots of restaurants opened back up after temporary, pandemic-related shutdowns, many of us were still cooking at home way more than we used to, trying to social distance as we weathered the ongoing spread of COVID-19....