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Valerie Bertinelli’s New Book Shares Her Journey To Self-Love Dominik Bindl/Getty Images By Emily Weaver/July 6, 2021 12:47 pm EST Two-time Golden Globe award-winning actress and bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli will be kicking off a new year in the best way possible. She’ll be releasing her new book titled “Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today” come January 2022, she told People magazine. Bertinelli explained her inspiration for the memoir came from years of “judg[ing] herself harshly” when it came to weight gain and physical signs of aging — eventually, she had to tell herself, “enough already!...

Weirdest Food Panics In History Shutterstock By Lauren Cahn/Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 12:19 pm EST These days when you talk about a “food panic,” also known as a “food scare,” it’s likely that people will presume you’re referring to the public’s response to an actual or feared food shortage in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic (via Dayton Daily News). But historically, these terms have referred more often to “a threat to food safety” that has escalated into consumers responding by altering their behavior (via 2017 paper published in the British Food Journal)....

What Hell’s Kitchen Winner Rock Harper Is Doing Now Instagram By Amanda Tarlton/Updated: Feb. 18, 2021 2:54 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you’re an OG fan of Hell’s Kitchen, you’ve been watching Gordon Ramsay roast up-and-coming chefs since the beginning (i.e. since the show started in 2005). While you may not remember every contestant of all 19 seasons so far, you likely remember the winners — like Rahman “Rock” Harper, who took home the title of last chef standing on season three in 2007....

Why Misha Collins Fans Are Begging McDonald’s To Release This ’90s Commercial Shutterstock By Ralph Schwartz/Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 3:59 pm EST Now that the CW series “Supernatural” is over, fans of one of the show’s stars are desperately searching for a deeply buried artifact from the actor’s body of work. Those out of the loop may wonder why Twitter is littered with seemingly random people begging McDonald’s to release a 1998 commercial featuring Misha Collins and possibly titled “Cabin Fever....

Why Some Johnny Rockets Restaurants Got Rid Of The Retro Look Shutterstock By Ashley Steinberg/June 13, 2021 12:49 pm EST Johnny Rockets is known for slinging burgers and heating up fries in a ’50s-style restaurant that makes mouths water and presents milkshakes that bring all the boys, and girls, to the yard. For years, their decor reflected the 1950s motif with a diner look that Chain Storage describes as involving “jukeboxes filled with oldies songs and dancing servers dressed in nostalgic soda-jerk uniforms....

Yolanda Gampp Reveals The Big Mistake Bakers Make Under Pressure - Exclusive Facebook By Molly Harris/June 2, 2021 9:13 am EST If there’s one woman who can do it all in cake, it’s cake designer and baker Yolanda Gampp. While you’ve likely seen her creations come to life on her popular YouTube channel, How to Cake It, you can now watch her discuss the technical side of baked goods as a judge on Fox’s “Crime Scene Kitchen....

3-Ingredient Savory Breakfast Puffs Recipe Catherine Brookes/Mashed By Catherine Brookes AND Mashed Staff/Aug. 13, 2021 7:51 am EST It’s easy to get into a breakfast rut, whether it’s having milk and cereal, fried eggs and toast, or the same chia pudding. That’s exactly the issue Catherine Brookes, the recipe developer behind Blue Sky Eating, was dealing with when she stumbled upon the idea for a three-ingredient savory breakfast puffs recipe....

Authentic German Bierocks Recipe Sophie Putka/Mashed By Sophie Putka/July 29, 2021 1:26 pm EST From pork baozi to empañadas, most every cuisine has some version of bread stuffed with savory filling — and German cuisine is no exception. Its stuffed rolls are called bierocks — and according to Lawrence Journal-World, they’re descended from the Russian version of pierogi. They can be filled with almost anything you want, but for a truly German experience, meat and cabbage are the best, which is what recipe developer Sophie Putka chose for her authentic bierocks recipe....

Chick-Fil-A Employees Reveal Their Dream Menu Items On Reddit Chick-fil-A By Sophie Putka/Updated: June 22, 2021 3:25 pm EST Do you ever wonder where your favorite fast-food item went, and why it decided to abandon you forever? Have you ever worked at a chain restaurant and made an off-menu mashup that you knew would be destined for greatness if they just decided to sell it? Chances are, employees of fast food restaurants know the limitations and possibilities of their ingredients better than anyone — and they’re willing to tell us what they think....

Costco Fans Are Unimpressed With This Reindeer Sausage. Here’s Why Shutterstock By Erica Buehler/Aug. 5, 2021 12:40 am EST Despite it only being August, “reindeer” is kind of trending right now (well, reindeer sausage anyway). A huge staple of Alaskan fare (via USA Today’s 10Best), reindeer sausage has since become a meal favorite across the country and the globe, whether grilled up and served on its own or as a complement to a dish (via Hunt Alaska Magazine)....

Don’t Believe This Viral TikTok Dishwasher Hack Shutterstock By Audrey Michels/March 31, 2021 1:32 pm EST TikTok might be where you go to unwind or to pass the time, but it probably shouldn’t be the place you go to learn life skills. As tempting as all those supposedly life-changing hacks are, many of them are fake, designed to get views and comments rather than to share useful information. Take this recent TikTok sensation posted by user jasminegazelle....

General Mills Has Had Shrimp Problems Before Twitter By Audrey Michels/March 24, 2021 12:19 pm EST If you haven’t heard about the recent drama of Jensen Karp, comedian, writer, producer, and spouse of Danielle Fishel Karp (aka Topanga from Boy Meets World) finding shrimp tails in his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal…well, you have now. Long story short, Karp found some very unappetizing items (including shrimp tails, a string, and some dark spots that could be rat feces) mixed in with his cereal, and posted about it online, according to Yahoo!...

Greg Brewer’s Unique Take On Perfect Wine Pairing - Exclusive Facebook By Steven John/Aug. 6, 2021 3:00 pm EST If there’s one thing Greg Brewer wants you to think about when it comes to proper wine pairing, it’s not to overthink things. And when Brewer gives you license to chill out some, it’s okay to go ahead and accept it. Laidback and unassuming as he may be, this guy knows wine....

How Rich Is The Culver’s CEO And What’s The Average Pay Of Its Employees? Shutterstock By Ni’Kesia Pannell/May 13, 2021 12:33 pm EST If you’ve had the chance to eat at Culver’s, you know there’s no shortage of good food on the menu including tempting Butterburgers and frozen custard. The popular restaurant chain — which the official website notes as first opening in 1984 in Wisconsin — makes it their point to both celebrate and put their customers first, and each location strives to treat everyone that walks through their doors just like family....

Jim Gaffigan Had A Hilarious Response To Stanley Tucci’s Italian Food Tour Araya Doheny/Getty Images By Ralph Schwartz/April 5, 2021 9:01 pm EST In another life, standup comic Jim Gaffigan might have been a celebrity chef. During the COVID-19 quarantine, his YouTube channel included the series Let’s Get Cookin’, a show that taught viewers how to make frozen pizza and homemade cookies (actually store-bought cookie dough). Considering the cooking skills he demonstrated, Gaffigan might not want to quit his day job....

Pepsi Just Got In On The Virtual Restaurant Trend Shutterstock By Erich Barganier/May 3, 2021 3:40 pm EST With the pandemic changing the way we approach eating at restaurants, we now have more ghost kitchens to choose from. According to Food Network, this style of restaurant sells its wares digitally but lacks a proper brick-and-mortar location for diners to eat at. While this style of restaurant has operated since at least 2013, ghost restaurants didn’t take off until COVID-19 made eating out much more difficult....

The Clever Way Jamie Foxx Tested Out His Bourbon Brand Shutterstock By Anthony Mastroianni/May 3, 2021 2:51 pm EST Musicians and actors are no strangers to branching out into the liquor business. Diddy’s Ciroc, Dan Akroyd’s Crystal Head Vodka, and Snoop Dogg’s, well… pretty much everything, may come to mind. Jamie Foxx, on the other hand, has taken the reins at BSB — Brown Sugar Bourbon. In an interview with Insider Hook, Foxx explained his venture into the world of whiskey, and just how he knew BSB was the right move for him....

The Ina Garten Salt Tip You Should Always Follow Michael Loccisano/Getty Images By Naomi Kennedy/July 12, 2021 10:40 am EST Ina Garten is arguably one of the most well-loved Food Network stars, and it’s easy to see why. A self-taught chef herself, the 73-year-old keeps the home cook in mind when putting her recipes together, making sure they are delicious and easy to recreate. She doesn’t feel the need to have a bunch of fancy gadgets cluttering her kitchen and has no problem using store-bought ingredients, some of her favorites being puff pastry, chocolate sauce, and Rao’s marinara sauce....

The McDonald’s Burger You Can Only Get In New Mexico 8th.creator/Shutterstock By Sophia Lo/Aug. 17, 2021 8:43 pm EST Like any other fast food chain, McDonald’s has its fair share of secret menu items, like this Snickers coffee. And if you can’t get your hands on something off the secret menu, there are always different TikTok hacks you can try to make your order into a meal with a twist. But did you know there are McDonald’s items you can only get in certain states?...

The Potentially Dark Origin Of Mukbangs Shutterstock By Audrey Michels/Jan. 25, 2021 3:02 pm EST If you’re not yet turning a profit from your quarantine hobby, you might at this point be side-eyeing influencers on TikTok, Twitch, or even OnlyFans and wondering if you could make easy money doing what they do, and you wouldn’t be alone. Take mukbangers, for example. The name sounds… questionable, but in reality mukbangers are internet personalities who make a living (and sometimes a very comfortable living) by streaming or recording videos of themselves eating (via QZ)....