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Britain is known for being a nation of tea-lovers, but nobody in the U.K. loves tea as much as Yorkshireman Nathan Garner. In fact, nobody has ever loved any food as much as he loves tea. I’m serious! This dude loves his tea more than Proust loved Madelines and Monty Python loved Spam, and he just proved it by legally changing his middle name to “Yorkshire Tea.”

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If anybody deserves a good meal, it’s a person who just had a baby. Giving birth is an exhausting, incredibly difficult experience that in a just world would be followed immediately by congratulatory cake and ice cream. Unfortunately, many new parents are lucky to get a vending machine sandwich and a cup of water.

That’s why one new mother in Japan was so shocked by the beautiful food her hospital served that she started posting photos of it online. Now the entire world wants to go have babies in Japan.

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Avocados are pure food magic. They’re delicious and buttery and can be eaten at every single meal. They’re excellent in everything from smoothies to sushi rolls. You can even pickle them! And they’re full of monounsaturated fat, which is the “good fat” credited with lowering levels of bad cholesterol and reducing a person’s risk of heart disease.

Now a new, low-fat avocado has been developed to improve upon what already seemed like a perfect food, but was anybody really looking for a low-fat avocado?

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To bake bread is to tap into a long lineage of human ingenuity, community, and satisfaction. Flour, water, yeast, and salt come together and hours later you’re slathering butter on your daily loaf. But just how does all that work? And what does it truly feel like to master this simple process? These are the questions we’re seeking to answer. In our series, The Soul & Science of Sourdough, we’re partnering with the minds behind Modernist Bread and the larger community of sourdough bakers to explore how the intersection of soul and science can help you learn the fundamentals of sourdough. Amy Halloran, author (and one of the most curious home bakers we know!), will be your guide as we walk you through the major stages of the bread baking craft, sharing stories and tips along the way. You’ll be inspired as a new baker and nurtured in your current practice. As Amy says, the perfect loaf of bread is simply the one that’s fits in your life. Here’s to finding it!

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Chicken and mushrooms have been saving dinner for years now. There are so many recipes out there that include this famous kitchen duo, and most of them are easy to make (lots of 30-minute recipes!) and totally delicious. Here are 10 of the recipes you need to try out right now.

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If you eat a lot of rice with your meals, or if you feel plagued by a rice-cooking hex, then a rice cooker is a must-have in your kitchen. It turns out perfectly cooked rice, night after night, meal after meal. Almost more than any other kitchen gadget, this one is all about making one thing in your life easier. Here’s how to use one to make a pot of rice tonight.

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While those inexpensive pumpkin carving kits you see at the grocery store may seem appealing (they promise everything you need — and when is the last time a plastic saw ever hurt anyone?), they’re actually not your best bet.

“I don’t use them,” says expert pumpkin carver Hugh McMahon, who heads a team that makes 300 jack-o’-lanterns a season (including portraits of Michael Jackson and Albert Einstein!). Not only do those chintzy orange knives break too easily, but they’ll also never give you very detailed results. They’re not always the sharpest, and you know what they about using dull knives (they’re more dangerous than sharp ones!).

Instead, McMahon says there are only two tools you need to carve a pumpkin safely.

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It’s no surprise those bags of frozen meatballs are a top seller at IKEA’s U.S. stores. But the bright-blue tubes of Kalles Kaviar smoked fish roe spread? No way. Who buys those? Turns out, lots of people. In fact, they’re the most popular of all IKEA’s seafood products. And those bland-looking cylinders of dry crispbread? They’re a best-seller too, as are those suspect-looking jars of pickled fish fillets. In fact, everything I’ve usually avoided in IKEA’s “Swedish Market” grocery section is a top-seller for the chain’s stateside stores. I had to wonder, is it the novelty factor? Or are there really that many Swedish ex-pats living in the States?

Or maybe that stuff is actually pretty good. The only way to know is to put them to the test, so I sampled IKEA’s most popular products in six different categories, plus a few of the chain’s newer items, in order to find the store’s best groceries.

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When viral videos circle the web, often they’re for super-human acts. (For instance, toddlers that can do anything an average adult can’t usually manage to accomplish.) This video follows the same vibe, but leaves us wondering how one learns they can catch apples when hurled at their face?

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