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Chef Aarti Sequeira Dishes On Cooking With Carl Ruiz And Cat Cora - Exclusive David Livingston/Getty Images By Steven John/Nov. 2, 2021 1:43 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You might not know it by the ever-present smile on her face, but chef Aarti Sequeira takes some things in life quite seriously. In fact, it’s when she’s focused on a recipe that her otherwise ubiquitous grin tends to drop, replaced by a look of concentration....

Crisp Rosemary Flatbread Recipe Ksenia Prints/Mashed By Ksenia Prints/Oct. 15, 2021 2:06 pm EST A yeast-free flatbread topped with rosemary is such a perfect, seamless appetizer to whip up when you’re hosting guests. “Having a go-to appetizer in your recipe box is the mark of easy hosting and entertaining,” says food blogger and photographer Ksenia Prints of At the Immigrant’s Table. And a great crisp flatbread can really be the star of any appetizer spread or its more elegant and international twin, the mezze platter....

Easy Country-Style Ribs Recipe Kit Hondrum/Mashed By Kit Hondrum AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Sept. 20, 2021 8:23 am EST Believe it or not, easy country-style barbecue ribs do not require a giant grill or smoker in the backyard. You can make them in the oven, with a minimal amount of ingredients, besides the generous slab of pork shoulder you’ll need to get. We secured this tasty rib recipe from Kit Hondrum, the creator of Kit’s Kitchen, a blog where you’ll find a variety of recipes for delicious, flavorful meals....

Essential Workers Won’t Want To Miss This Insomnia Cookies Freebie Insomnia Cookies/Facebook By Lauren Cahn/Dec. 22, 2021 2:54 pm EST Insomnia Cookies began in 2003 with a cookie craving on the part of a business-minded Ivy League undergraduate by the name of Seth Berkowitz. Since then, the flex-hours, super-fast cookie delivery service has spawned multiple brick and mortar locations (there are at least 200 at present, via PR Newswire) not to mention a cookie-shipping business that can get Insomnia’s delicious warm home-baked-style cookies into the hands of people outside of the company’s instant delivery zones....

Here’s How Chef Jose Andres Is Responding To The Earthquake In Haiti Paul Morigi/Getty Images By Ashley Steinberg/Updated: Feb. 7, 2022 9:56 am EST José Andrés is a chef who technically needs no introduction, but deserves one nonetheless. For those in the culinary know, his name is up there with the greats. As his website notes, he was “named one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ in both 2012 and 2018....

How Domino’s Is Supporting Small Business Owners Domino’s/Twitter By Gillie Houston/Nov. 16, 2021 2:40 pm EST Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 110,000 U.S. restaurants have closed permanently, with many others struggling to get by on a daily basis. To combat the closure of restaurants in their own communities, a group of Domino’s Pizza franchisees recently joined forces to put their monetary support behind locally-owned eateries, while encouraging others across America to do the same....

How TikTok Is Getting Folks Ready For Rosh Hashanah Sokor Space/Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Sept. 6, 2021 10:11 am EST As the celebrations for Rosh Hashanah begin, lots of enthusiastic home cooks are taking to the internet to share their most loved recipes. The Jewish New Year is marked by plenty of delicious foods, such as apples with honey, dates, honey cake, challah bread, leeks, spinach, and more. Per Taste of Home, all these food items have plenty of meaning attached to them, too....

Instagram Thinks This ‘Bloomin’ Onion’ Apple Pie Is ‘Food Genius’ Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock By Kate Hagan Gallup/Sept. 12, 2021 1:08 am EST Rising star Josh Elkin has really hit it out of the park with this recipe for a Blooming Apple Pie. Described by Foodbeast as “Foodbeast fam, Foodbeast Kitchen League champion,” this Instagrammer is making all of our mouths water. Inspired by Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion, this inventive take post puts a sweet twist on the battered and fried appetizer, turning it into a dessert....

Michael Symon’s Touching Tribute To John Madden Has Fans In Tears Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images By Alia Hoyt/Dec. 29, 2021 11:37 am EST Like millions of people around the world, celebrity chef Michael Symon is all in on his feelings about the passing of football great John Madden. Madden died unexpectedly on December 28 at the age of 85. His long and storied career as both a football coach and charismatic television sports analyst won him the hearts of so many football fans around the world....

NYC Just Made A Major Change To Public School Lunch Menus Oksana Kuzmina/Shutterstock By Hannah Beach/Feb. 8, 2022 12:55 pm EST Although school lunch programs have been around for nearly a century now, they’ve changed dramatically over the years. Before World War II, schools relied on government funding to provide students with fruit, milk, and other food items. With less funding available, school lunches quickly declined in nutritional value, according to TIME....

Savannah Guthrie Is Finally Ready For The ‘Painful Process’ Of Learning To Cook FashionStock.com/Shutterstock By Amanda Tarlton/Dec. 18, 2021 5:08 pm EST If you’re someone who lives off carryout and DoorDash and whose version of a homemade meal is a bowl of cereal (or, if you’re really fancy, a box of Kraft mac and cheese), you aren’t alone. One survey found that 28% of Americans admit they can’t cook, with many blaming it on having a partner who does all the cooking or not having enough time (via HuffPost)....

The Problem Fans Have With Little Debbie’s Christmas Tree Cakes Ice Cream Little Debbie By Felix Behr/Nov. 15, 2021 3:37 pm EST The hype was too much. On October 14, 2021, USA Today carried the news that Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes, an iconic holiday snack, would be translated into an ice cream form. The product would be a vanilla flavor with cake chunks, sprinkles, and the treat’s red icing spread throughout and was set to release exclusively at Walmart for $2....

The Real Reason Canada Is Having A Major Vegetable Shortage New Africa/Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/Jan. 20, 2022 4:37 pm EST At the end of 2021, it looked like a perfect storm was brewing that had the potential to impact Canada’s food industry on a large scale. CTV News reported that supply chain issues like port congestion and the extraordinarily high price of shipping containers might translate into rising food prices and possible shortages across the country....

The Sweet Way Chick-Fil-A Honored This 91-Year-Old Employee Jim Lambert/Shutterstock By Maria Scinto/Feb. 7, 2022 3:07 pm EST While there was once this sweet concept that we’d all get to spend our “golden years” enjoying an endless summer vacation known as retirement, the grim reality for many these days is working well into our advancing years. The number of Americans over 75 still in the workforce was just 6.6% as of 2018, but that number is rising all the time....

The Wild Sum Washington D.C. Is Paying To Buy Out This Infamous Wendy’s Scott Olson/Getty Images By Hanna Claeson/Updated: Jan. 8, 2022 2:32 am EST There’s an intersection in DC that, per NPR Congressional Correspondent Kelsey Snell, takes like 12 traffic lights and 26 turns to go straight through (via Twitter). It’s an intersection, which is deserving, apparently, of a cameo in an Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick (via Twitter). The unfortunate result of a city planner in 1791 who just “gave up” according to biographer Scott W....

This Is Surprisingly One Of The Healthiest Fast Food Chains Ethan Miller/Getty Images By Ralph Schwartz/Updated: Dec. 9, 2021 2:30 pm EST Among fast food chains, Taco Bell might best be known for off-the-wall menu items that seem to sacrifice health and common decency for never-before-experienced taste sensations. Does anyone remember the Naked Chicken Chalupa, with a taco shell made of fried chicken? Or the Bacon Cheddar Gordita Crunch: a taco inside a puff pastry layered with bacon and cheese?...

This Restaurant Has The Best Hot Sandwiches, According To 27% Of People siamionau pavel/Shutterstock By Boshika Gupta/Sept. 22, 2021 12:28 pm EST A sandwich can be a versatile snack that can impress even the fussiest eater and leave them longing for more. Ultimately, it all comes down to that unique blend of ingredients in your sandwich. One of the most important decisions to make when choosing a sandwich is if you want it hot or cold....

TikTok Can’t Get Over This McDonald’s Free Refill French Fry ‘Hack’ Shutterstock By Kalea Martin/Updated: Jan. 24, 2022 11:10 am EST Super-sizing your order may not be a thing at McDonald’s anymore, but apparently there’s an even better way to get more of the fast food joint’s famous French fries. According to Orlando Johnson, who goes by @ItsOsoProdigy on TikTok, all you have to do is ask for a refill....

TikTok Is Loving This Dancing Whataburger Drive-Thru Employee Anastasiia Shadrina/Shutterstock By Alia Hoyt/Dec. 28, 2021 11:23 am EST You’ve heard of making lemonade out of lemons. Well, one Whataburger employee saw an opportunity to “break it down” at her often backbreaking job, and the world is here for it. A TikTok video posted earlier in December by the whimsically named user s_carr_go shows an exuberant drive-thru employee dancing to the tune of “We Are Family....

Trader Joe’s 5-Ingredient Gnocchi Recipe Sher Castellano/Mashed By Sher Castellano AND Mashed Staff/Updated: Sept. 14, 2021 10:10 am EST You can probably guess a few things about this Trader Joe’s 5-ingredient gnocchi from the name. For example, you probably know that it’s pretty simple to make, given the ingredient count. And you probably know that all of said ingredients can be found at your lovely local Trader Joe’s. And you likely also figured that at least one of those ingredients is gnocchi....