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You Might Not Get Your See’s Candies Advent Calendar This Year

The beloved California chocolate company screwed up.

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5 Black Friday Amazon Deals That Are Actually Worth the Hype

These essential kitchen items are the cheapest they'll be all year.

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Reddit Highlights the Wrong Way to Do Christmas Cookies

This AITA thread reminds us that cookies should not ruin a holiday.

Dennis Lee

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Local Restaurants Handle Inflation Differently

The big chains have their tricks, but so does your neighborhood cafe.

Angela L. Pagán

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Are gingerbread men, uh, cannibal propaganda?

Some historians trace the holiday baked goods to the Saturnalia celebrations of ancient Rome.

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Rocky Rococo Is the Paragon of Pan-Style Pizza

This Wisconsin pizza chain offers the chance to relive your 1990s pizza party memories.

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In Defense of America’s Most Hated Beer

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Dine Beneath a Genuine Signed Picasso in the Heart of Wisconsin

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The Brat Burger, Wisconsin’s Stroke of Grilling Genius

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The Takeout’s 2021 Holiday Cookie Contest: send us your best recipes

Our 2021 Holiday Cookie Contest is underway, and we need your entries.

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Please welcome two new members to The Takeout staff

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The 5 Worst Things We’ve Tasted This Year, So Far

The most unpleasant culinary surprises and biggest disappointments of 2022.

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The 7 Best Foods We've Tasted This Year, So Far

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Our favorite books to gift this holiday season

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5 Black Friday Amazon Deals That Are Actually Worth the Hype

These essential kitchen items are the cheapest they'll be all year.

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Go Ahead, Buy Your Holiday Cookies Instead of Baking

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The 10 Best Food Twitter Accounts, While They Still Exist

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Reddit Highlights the Wrong Way to Do Christmas Cookies

This AITA thread reminds us that cookies should not ruin a holiday.

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Reddit Is Obsessed With Weird Eggs

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The World’s Most Mispronounced Foods

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What These Famous Grocery Lists Tell Us About Humanity

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How an Influencer Gets the Perfect Food Photos

Alex Jewell (@bestfoodalex) explains how he shapes his Instagram photos through his voice.

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Meet the Man Attempting to Eat 40 Rotisserie Chickens in 40 Days

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How a Food Influencer Makes Money

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How Food Trucks Handle a Spike in Business

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Why White Castle Is the Quintessential American Fast Food Restaurant

This chain isn't available where you're from, so savor every tiny bite.

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What’s Your Fantasy Food Destination?

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Do You Plan Every Meal on Vacation or Are You Normal?

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Follow These Simple Rules When Packing Snacks for a Flight

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You Might Not Get Your See’s Candies Advent Calendar This Year

The beloved California chocolate company screwed up.

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Don’t Throw Skittles At Harry Styles

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America’s Most Expensive Thanksgiving Turkeys by State

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Haribo Cheaped Out on a Good Samaritan

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11 Mistakes to Avoid When You’re Hosting Thanksgiving

Lessons learned from hosting 35 large-scale Thanksgiving dinners.

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Don’t Buy McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys for $300,000 on eBay

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What American Dining Is Missing

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The Most Important Role in Every Restaurant

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Watch Paris Hilton eat Froot Loops with an air of utter detachment

Plus, Jason Derulo teaches his followers how to make jalebi, and Tabitha Brown sells out of Sunshine.

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Foodgod is a normal person who eats totally normally

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Leah Remini says that diet culture can f*** itself

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If you’re DJ Khaled, you don’t have to choose what to have for dinner

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The Hi-Lo Food Show

We visit a long-running, Julia Child-approved Vietnamese spot in San Francisco

The Hi-Lo Food Show features acclaimed chef Erik Anderson (a Food & Wine Best New Chef, founding chef of Nashville’s The Catbird Seat, and chef-owner of the forthcoming Brut in Minneapolis) along with me, the editor-in-chief of this website and a…

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