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The Travelling Gin Co. Cruises NYC on Bikes with Booze-Filled Basket

On bicycles branded with the name “The Travelling Gin Co.,” they can be seen cycling through the streets of London with two bottles of gin fastened to the front of their baskets, wearing aprons filled with bitters and bottle openers. → Read More

7 Teas That Settle Your Stomach

Whether it’s just mildly irritating or painfully distressing, when there’s a battle going on in your stomach, all you can do is look for a quick solution to settle it. → Read More

Exotic Seafood You Have to Travel For

Whether it’s caught by a local fisherman in a nearby bay and sold fresh at your neighborhood seafood market or it’s caught thousands of miles away in another ocean and is only consumabl → Read More

Lack of Sleep Linked to Junk Food Cravings

Lack of sleep may be why you’re reaching for junk food like pizza and donuts rat → Read More

Cheese, Chocolate, and Other Foods That Affect Your Dreams

When you think back on your dream last night, do you remember it pretty vividly? Was it perhaps a bit bizarre or even nightmarish? If so, that chocolate you had right before bed could be the culprit.[related] How Food Affects Your Dreams (Slideshow) → Read More

11 Freaky Food Superstitions

Superstitions have been around for centuries, evolving from cultural and religious beliefs at different times and different places in history. → Read More

25 Best Restaurants in Mexico

Searching for the best, we scouted out restaurants all over Mexico, compiling a list of finalists to narrow them down to just 25 of the best of the best. It wasn’t easy. → Read More

8 Worst Drinks for Diabetics

Choosing diabetic-friendly drinks isn’t always easy. → Read More

10 Honey-Flavored Liquors to Drink with Your Honey on Valentine's Day

On Valentine’s Day, nothing is sweeter than your honey, but we found some honey-flavored liquors that are sweeter than you might think. → Read More

Cat Cafés, Penguin Bars, and Other Places You Can Drink with Animals

First cats, then goats, now owls? Sipping coffee or tea with furry friends — or in some cases, feathery or scaly creatures — is what the cool kids are doing in Asia, and now in other parts of the world, too. → Read More

Table Manners Around the World

Growing up, our mothers reminded us not to put our elbows on the table, to put our napkins in our laps, and to chew with our mouths closed until one day, good table manners became engrained in us. → Read More

24 New Year’s Food and Drink Traditions Around the World

‘Happy New Year!’ may not be said the same way in every culture, but people everywhere ring in the New Year with celebratory food and drinks alongside family and friends. How we celebrate depends on where in the world we are on the last day of the year because New Year’s traditions differ from country to country. But no matter where it’s celebrated, New Year’s is always welcomed with traditional… → Read More

12 Classic Christmas Cakes from Around the World

Christmas cake is generally assumed to be some kind of fruitcake — you know, that holiday dessert that tends to be the butt of so many holiday jokes. Although, fruitcake isn’t very popular in the U.S., other culture’s traditional Christmas cakes are commonly some variation of fruitcake.[related] → Read More

Coconut Snowball Cupcakes

For the Cupcakes Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line two 12-cup cupcake pans with paper liners, such as PaperChef Tulip Cups. Sift the flours, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together into a large bowl and set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and shortening together until creamy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the sugar and vanilla and beat… → Read More

9 Edible Holiday Gifts

For many, winter holidays conjure images of sipping hot chocolate by the fire, building snowmen outside, or constructing and consuming gingerbread houses. → Read More

The 9 Best Drinks for Detoxing

Detoxing is a way to “recharge, rejuvenate, and renew,” says Linda Page, ND, PhD, naturopathic doctor, lecturer, and author of Detoxification. → Read More

What Cookies Look and Taste Like Around the World

Chewy or crunchy, chocolaty or nutty, flat or twisted… A cookie is a cookie, but depending on where in the worl → Read More

Taste Test: America’s Best Hot Chocolate Mix

Brrr! It’s cold outside, so we’re bundling up, curling up next to the fire, and reaching for our favorite cold-weather beverage — a rich, chocolaty cup of steaming hot chocolate. → Read More

Cream Cheese Peppermint Dip

Put the cream cheese, ricotta, powdered sugar, and peppermint extract into a mixing bowl. Using a mixer, mix on high for 2 minutes. Chill 30 minutes before serving. Garnish with the crushed peppermints and serve with chocolate-covered pretzels and graham crackers. → Read More

Who Invented Macarons and 10 Other Iconic Cookie Origins

Bakers have been baking cookies for as long as medieval ovens have been around, mixing different ingredients and perfecting recipes that evolved over time into the cookies we munch on today. The truth is the first cookies weren’t always intended to be cookies, but it was love at first crumble. → Read More