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When the MTN DEW’s official cookbook, The Big Bold Book Of MTN DEW Recipes, was announced last year, a statement…

There have been days this winter when I can’t unload the dishwasher one more time, and if I see another left over…

Any Jew will tell you that it’s hard to be a Jew, and that includes the Jews who arrived in America from Eastern…

All around the world, everyone’s got their favorite dipping cookies. There’s biscotti in Italy, we’ve got our Oreos…

This past year, I improved a lot as a cook. I have spent hours in my home kitchen honing skills and fortifying…

Back in the early 1980s, the microwave promised to bring us all into a brave new era of convenience cooking. “Use…

If you’ve ever been to a Korean restaurant, chances are you’ve been to a place that serves something called budae…

I love baking. I grew up in a household where my mother was constantly making loaves of homemade raisin bread,…

Every family has its odd pastime. And most of us don’t realize how odd it is until we start comparing notes with our…

For those of you uninitiated in Chicago food, the Italian beef is our big hometown sandwich, and for me, at least,…

As a low-attention-span indoor kid, I had two great loves growing up. The first was American football—the Bears…

It’s been a while since I had a dirt dessert. But I can dreamily recall grade school potlucks with dessert tables…

Think back to 2013. “Twerk” and “selfie” were freshly added to the Oxford Dictionary and Millennials came to…

The Takeout is proudly based in the Midwest, with our headquarters in the big great city of Chicago. We’re…

I am loathe to use Instagram these days for a multitude of reasons:

Although I’ve lived along Canada’s east coast for several years, I’ll always be a CFA (that’s a come-from-away, for…

The pandemic did a number on me. For the first few months, I was in the kitchen every other night spending at least…

Have you ever noticed how the best gifts are usually things you never asked for or never even knew that you wanted?…

Welcome to Jiggle All The Way, The Takeout’s holiday celebration of Jell-O, gelatin, and all things wiggly. We’ll be…

Gerald Stratford has a soft spot for Cadbury whole nut chocolate. The 72-year-old British vegetable farmer tells me…