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The inescapable, highly anticipated Black Friday digital bazaar is underway, meaning that it’s prime time for scoring genuinely excellent discounts on small kitchen appliances. This year’s standout deals include markdowns on workhorse favorites — the Vitamix Propel blender, Breville’s Smart […]

This year, the deal’s are white-hot on Vitamix blenders, gourmet snacks, and tons of our favorite gadgets and cookbooks Black Friday is here once again, transforming the internet into one giant, flashing funhouse with “SALE!!!” signs and promo codes at

Black Friday can feel like being trapped inside a digital mall staffed by an infinite sea of carnival barkers vying for your attention (and dollars), but buried in the noise are plenty of very real, very good deals — especially if

On Thanksgiving Day seven years ago, I had the worst shift of my restaurant career. I was waiting tables at a high-profile restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Instead of opening for normal business hours, the restaurant served continuously from noon to

Growing up in a Mexican household, it never truly felt like the holidays until my abuela, very aptly, broke out the yellow box of Abuelita chocolate from the tiny cupboard next to the stove. My family and I would decorate

Family photos provided by, from left to right: Joanne and Kenneth Liu, Curtis Chin, Roger Liu, and Chin. Located in Bartow, Florida, Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant does the most business during hurricanes. Connie Wu recalls her parents’ restaurant was still

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A bûche de Noël is only as good as its cake. This recipe for vanilla chiffon cake delivers a perfect, fluffy, thin sheet of deliciousness that’s easy to make and even easier to roll up — if the pastry gods

I would love to know which ancient Christmas wizard took a puff of Chronic and invented the bûche de Noël, the iconic dessert log that likely originated in medieval France and exploded in popularity in Europe during the Victorian era,

The swirl; the cracks. Any avid watcher of The Great British Bake Off is familiar with the pitfalls of the Swiss roll, aka the roll cake, the yule log, the bûche de Noël. But this impressive-looking dessert — simply a sponge