Brand collaborations are one of my favorite grocery store curiosities. Whether it’s something ill-advised like candy-…

It’s almost October, a time when the displays of winter holiday candy and decor start inching closer and closer to…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! By which I mean we are entering the part of the year where almost every…

At The Takeout, our inboxes runneth over with press releases heralding the debut of new breakfast cereals or fast…

This weekend marks both the summer solstice (the day of the year when the northern hemisphere receives the most…

“It’s not difficult
Anyway it’s necessary.”

When I bake, it’s kind of like therapy (don’t worry, I also have an actual therapist). I get to escape into a ball…

Christmas Day is a holiday on which many Jewish Americans enjoy a tradition of going to the movies and eating…

Over the past few weeks, I have eaten more than my fair share of chocolate-peppermint, which is a lovely combination…

My mother loved to entertain, and the parties that my parents threw invariably involved her cut-glass punch bowl.…

England’s treasured mincemeat pies are an edible Ghost of Christmas Past. They’ve been a technical challenge on The…

Update, December 13, 2019: We’re too tired to keep singing. Arby’s has meat wrapping paper. Repeat the sounding joy.…

Dear Salty, So it’s the holiday season, and every year I try to give a little something to the housecleaner, the…

’Tis the giving season for all of us—which means it’s also the receiving season. And it’s always such a pleasure to…

Don’t get me wrong: Holiday cookies are great, but after weeks of parties, you can end up with a permanent sugar…

Can we agree that the best thing about holiday parties is the food?

Fruit baskets come in for a lot of ridicule this time of year. Mostly because in general we tend to forget they…

There is no song that sums of the American Jewish experience better than that heartrending classic “A Lonely Jew on…

Christmas pigs might not have the PR team of a reindeer like Rudolph or a donkey like Dominick; they may not give…

A cocktail, writes the food historian Joseph M. Carlin in his book Cocktails: A Global History, “regardless... of…