Now that it’s November, it’s fair to say that we’re officially in the season of fuzzy sweaters, novelty candy canes, and people coughing and sneezing in your general direction anytime you step into a public space. The holiday season brings people together! That’s wonderful. But hey, it brings their germs together, too.

It has been 15 years since Buddy The Elf smiled and twirled and sang his way to becoming a modern Christmas classic. In honor of Elf’s anniversary, a Chicago restaurant has put its saccharine train wreck—the syrup- and candy-topped spaghetti breakfast Buddy created in the movie—on the menu.

Today marks the second day of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Both days have been marked by protests. This is not a news item about those protests, or about Merrick Garland, or about Presidents responding to subpoenas. This is a…

You may think that pasta, like pizza or cheeseburgers, is one of those foods you could just never tire of. Want to test that theory? Olive Garden has quite the deal for you: For $300, the chain’s new Annual Pasta Pass entitles its lucky owners to “52 weeks of unlimited servings of guests’ favorite pastas, homemade…

In Hasty Gourmet, The Takeout writers offer reliable recipes that are dinner-party worthy with only a handful of ingredients and a minimum of effort. 

My backyard garden this year is… bountiful. Overflowing. Abundant. That’s putting it poetically, of course—what I really mean is that I have more green vegetables than I could possibly eat even if I was a rabbit or Gwyneth Paltrow. Thankfully, I’ve landed on a little secret, and I’ll let you in on it, too: You can…

The first time I attempted to make cacio e pepe, I thought it had to be just about the easiest pasta dish to make, outside of the un-sauced spaghetti and butter that young kids without functioning taste buds demand. I mean, most of its ingredients are in its name: cacio is “cheese” in a number of Italian dialects and…

Until this week, I was unfamiliar with DelicaciesJewelry.com. Yet here we are, on the other side of that discovery, and I find myself most unexpectedly trying real damn hard not to buy a piece of sterling silver elbow pasta.

Noodles & Co. has found an unlikely, non-pasta savior: zoodles. You know, those spiralized zucchini ribbons that are “totally just like noodles, but low-carb!”? Yeah, apparently people actually like those things, because zoodles have single-handedly turned around Noodles & Co.’s lagging sales.

If you’re like me (from New Jersey with a last name ending in a vowel), you very likely grew up eating “pasta fazool,” long before we found out that it’s actually “pasta fagioli”—technically pasta e fagioli or “pasta and beans.” Neapolitans, who have their own group of dialects, call it “fasule,” hence the…

Let’s not mince words: This here is one of the most delicious dishes I’ve had the pleasure of eating all year. It’s a mushroom bolognese tagliatelle from the Chicago restaurant Somerset, helmed by Michelin-starred chef Lee Wolen. As a lifelong carnivore, this vegetarian pasta feels like the last thing in the world…

In these troubled times, it’s best to take one’s yuks where one can. Today, one can take them from the Twitter account Italians Mad at Food, brought to our attention by the fine people at Bon Appétit. The idea is so pure, so simple, that it’s almost to good for this world: a highly curated selection of Italian folks…

There is nothing worse than when two sides of yourself are in conflict. For many, the part of us that longs for delicious complex plates of interesting food is opposed to the part of us that is too lazy to contemplate turning off Netflix to start shopping and cooking. Even for those who love to spend time in the…

Inside Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, researchers have been hard at work developing stuff that will—to use a phrase common among members of the scientific community—blow your goddamn mind. The gifted minds of the Morphing Matter Lab have put their advanced educations and superior…

After enduring decades of slanderous accusations hurled by the likes of dieticians, comedians, and the denizens of Portlandia, pasta may finally get some justice. In a new study published in medical journal BMJ Open, Canadian researchers found that pasta does not directly cause weight gain. In fact, they discovered…

Many times at restaurants our gracious server will encourage us to mind the plate, because it’s hot. But we’re usually so famished we dive in anyway. So maybe that’s why we can relate to the plight of a diner in Orland Park, Illinois, who was attacked by marinara sauce as she cut into her plate of lasagna. The …

In a reality show full of terrible people, James was the worst person on Real Housewives spin-off Vanderpump Rules from the moment he first stepped in front of a camera: a spoiled, whiny child-man intent on alienating virtually everyone while pushing his non-talent as a DJ. It takes a whole new level of assholery to…