About Renee Schettler Rossi

For some, this time of year is all about resolutions. For others, it’s all about traditions and superstitions.

The year’s best books are stacking up and waiting to be read. We’ve culled through the masses to narrow the list to just the must reads.

The best beach reads for the long weekend ahead, including something for outdoorsy types, literary types, curious types, curry-loving types, and just all-around food-loving types.

Maybe what the world needs is a single currency. Like jars of this sweet, rich, intense bacon jam that makes everything better.

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Ah, January. A month of good intentions and cursed resolutions. Here, the cookbooks that you need.

Say goodbye to resolutions. These days culinary bucket lists are what all the cool kids are doing.

In the spirit of banishing fruitcakes everywhere, we’re sharing how to make homemade food gifts that people actually want to receive.

Sometimes you just gotta laugh. If you need help with that, try on these holiday angst-avoidant cartoons.

Yes, we know, the whole world thinks pink this time of year. But one tutu-clad man thinks pink all year round. And we love him for it.

Uh, what are these little troublemakers up to? You tell us. We want your sassy and snarky suggestions in our first-ever caption contest.

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

A splurge at Anthropologie reveals some unabashedly girlie French knives with an unmistakably masculine appeal.

The classic martini–you know, the one sipped throughout decades past–dispenses with questions of shaken or stirred, dirty or dry. It just is what it is.

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The TV dinner, that icon of mid-century American life, offered Renee and David two disparate experiences: Freedom and disappointment.