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For many years we tried our hand at gingerbread house construction, although it quickly became apparent that this discipline wasn’t for us when the best model we could construct was the one with a roof and two walls. Anything more than that tended to collapse (read: be eaten) before completion. Let’s just say that it’s [...]

If you live in the United States, you probably ate an inordinate quantity of food yesterday, and maybe feel a little stuffed now–if you live elsewhere in the world, presumably you ate yesterday, and maybe you overate? In that case, you probably feel like the food you abused yesterday is getting back at you, but [...]

A staple of the holidays that nobody really understands (not even Wikipedia) but still tries to excel at, there’s something typically American about absurd gingerbread house design. Not only does it involve turning something joyful, silly and festive into a competition, it also means creating ever larger and sweeter fake homes out of candy, cookies [...]