The office Thanksgiving potluck is a great time to catch up with coworkers, eat something better than your usual sad desk lunch, and watch your boss make awkward small talk with your business manager. What’s not to love about it? Some people love it so much, they’ve given it an adorable little pet name.
Here’s what you need to know about it and how to plan (or attend!) one successfully.
Halo Top has already conquered the grocery store to become the single best-selling pint of ice cream in the U.S., ahead of both Ben & Jerry’s and Haagen-Dazs. Now everyone’s favorite low-calorie, low-sugar, high-protein, slightly healthier-than-normal ice cream is moving out of the ice cream aisle and opening its first physical scoop shop. As if that wasn’t big enough news, the company is also introducing its first soft-serve ice cream.
Read more: What’s the Deal with Halo Top Ice Cream?
Hot buttered movie theater popcorn is one of life’s deepest pleasures. It’s pure, greasy nostalgia. When my parents took my sister and I to the movies when we were children, they never, ever let us buy snacks at the theater. Now that I’m an adult, I hit the concession stand every single time, even though I’m well aware of the financial irresponsibility of overindulging in movie theater snacks.
Crispy turkey skin is quite possibly the best part of the Thanksgiving meal. We know that brining a turkey will yield a roast turkey with moist, juicy meat, but what about the skin? Everybody loves crispy skin. Here are three key steps you need to take to ensure perfectly crispy skin every single time.
“Ethnic food” is a phrase most of us have heard, possibly even recently. But what does it mean, specifically? If “ethnic” means to come from a certain national or cultural tradition, then literally all food would be ethnic food. But Tara O’Brady, the award-winning cookbook author, food writer, and proprietor of the popular blog Seven Spoons, explains that’s not the way people tend to use the phrase “ethnic food,” and she says it’s time to retire it. Because in practice what people mean when they talk about “ethnic food” is the food of non-white people, and that usage contributes to power differences and hierarchies in the food world that it’s past time to do away with.
When I was 26 I set my wok on fire seasoning it (before I knew how to do it properly), but luckily my trusty fire extinguisher took care of things before it became really serious. That’s why the news that 38 million fire extinguishers are being recalled right now — models made over the last 44 years — is especially unnerving.
Anthony Bourdain has never been one to hold back his language regarding other chefs and food personalities. He is always the first to call someone out on doing things incorrectly or doing them just for show when good, honest food isn’t involved. So, when Refinery29 recently asked Bourdain which big-name food star he think actually gets it right when it comes to food, we had to find out.
To no one’s surprise, Anthony Bourdain thinks highly of the one and only Ina Garten.
With all the fuss that’s involved in building your Thanksgiving dinner, what to drink with the turkey and fixings should be the least complicated decision you make. Spend more time hemming and hawing between pumpkin pie recipes and less time perusing the wine store trying to find the best bottle to pour at the table and just head to Aldi instead.
Yes, they sell my top pick for Thanksgiving wine this year — and just like everything else Aldi sells, it happens to be wallet-friendly, too.
First, let me explain: When I say “having” a dog, what I really mean is “babysitting” a dog. I do not have a dog of my own. Mostly because my husband and I can’t agree on a size. I want a dog that’s small enough for me to carry around like a baby and he wants one that he can ride. So until they come up with a breed that can grow and shrink on demand, we spend a lot of time taking in other people’s pups while they go on vacation. (In fact, we just said goodbye this morning to a shiba inu named Sumo.)
We’ve learned a lot from watching nearly a dozen different dogs over the years. For one, I like rubbing bellies nearly as much as dogs like getting bellies rubbed. I’ve learned that dog toys are key for beating boredom on rainy days. And I learned one important thing about my kitchen.
