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Leah Odze Epstein recalls what she remembers most about birthdays growing up, and it has everything to do with cake.

While traveling in Tuscany, Lynne Curry learns the unexpected and underrated pleasures of dining tutto solo.

Garrett McCord finds himself suddenly unemployed—and seeking solace in a pot of steamed mussels. Things could be worse.

Gardener and The Backyard Parables author Margaret Roach divulges her Give-Winter-The-Finger Diet.

He loves me. He loves me not. When Meg Bortin is stood up for dinner—sort of—by a friend, she’s left to wonder….

That bottle of Heinz may be more essential than you think—or so Casey Barber asserts, explains, and exhorts.

You may think not speaking the same language as your in-laws would solve all your problems. Not quite. Elizabeth Kelsey explains.

Here’s an eclectic and excellent array of the year’s cookbooks, the ones we simply can’t imagine not telling you about.

There’s a lot of U.S. history they don’t teach you in school. Here’s the true story of what led to our early infatuation with the cocktail.

Desperate times call for drastic measures. So when Philip Graham’s son turned into a picky eater, his dad wasn’t above a little bribery.

Tempting as it is to subsist on tomatoes alone this time of year, eventually the need for something—or someone—else rings true.

When it comes to travel, you can take it with you. But then what? Cristin Nelson dishes on the dirty little secret behind food souvenirs.

Being a mom and meteorologist don’t always go hand in hand. But as long as there are muffins made from scratch, who cares?

Carol Penn-Romine takes us back to her childhood and a secular southern sacrament that’s still solemnly revered.

The American doyenne of French cooking expounds upon what she learned during a lifetime of cooking—and thinking—at the stove.