So, you’ve been invited to someone else’s house for Thanksgiving Day dinner. This means you won’t have to fuss over a bird, clean every nook and cranny of your house, or obsess over whether to finish that DIY bathroom remodel before your guests arrive. But you would like to bring some nice wine, which begs the…

For those unfamiliar—and I find this idea hard to believe—Funyuns are fried onion rings in snack form. Introduced in 1969 by Frito-Lay, Funyuns are a salty and vaguely tangy treat that I have a long history with and an special fondness for. And given the holiday season, it’s a perfectly acceptable substitute for fried…

My family heads to Wisconsin every year for my dad and stepmother’s Saturday-after-Thanksgiving dinner. Most of their stepchildren are between families Thursday and Friday, so the Saturday event gets a high turnout. The food’s pretty good too, so that may be another reason.

If there is an album that was the soundtrack for the courtship of my husband and myself, it is Rufus Wainwright’s Poses. In those blissful, carefree, mortgage-free, and kid-free days, we would get together every Sunday to read the Trib while listening to this album on repeat. I was so besotted that I listened to it…

Do not eat romaine lettuce. We don’t mean to be alarmist, but every other Twitter post on our timeline right now is using rather stark language, even from the normally measured Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A heartwarming human-interest story emerged from Avon, Indiana this week, where a Chick-fil-A decided to reward beloved a 92-year-old customer, who started visiting about a year ago. Referred to only as “Ernie” by Fox59 in Indianapolis, the news channel reports that this Chick-fil-A branch’s favorite customer visits…

Page Six Style recently asked Brooke Shields about her holiday gift strategies. (’Tis the season, I guess.) As it happens, she has a go-to gift, and it’s a salad dressing she describes as “very special.”

Here’s a good reminder to lock your car doors: If you don’t, a group of bears could break into it and eat all your possessions. Don’t believe me? Watch this video recorded by Asheville, North Carolina 16-year-old Lilly Thurmond, who filmed four bears rummaging through her Toyota Prius, eating the chocolate bars…

Thanksgiving dinner is like the Super Bowl of meals, the culmination of a year’s worth of eating, the pinnacle of appetites and indulgences. Everything is carefully planned, right down to the timing. The Atlantic came out with a definitive statement today that got us to pondering “The Correct Time to Eat Thanksgiving…

People will board airplanes in droves this week, heading to visit family around the country. While on board, they will be handed pretzels, Sprite, tiny cans of tomato juice to go with their tiny bottles of vodka, and depending on the length of the trip, the odd in-flight meal. CNBC spoke with food safety experts about…

Pizza boxes are mostly made of corrugated cardboard, a material that gets the recycling go-ahead in most places. But if you’re just dumping the entire empty box in the recycling bin after you’ve finished your pie, you’re harming more than than you’re helping.

This is one of those memes I actually saw on my own timeline, as a high-school friend received a text from her college-age daughter last week asking, “How long does it take to microwave a 25-pound turkey?” Really, parents should be on to this prank from the get-go, as the young people are much more likely to ask Suri…