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If you got a lot of Halloween loot you’ll be happy to know that nobody can stop you from eating as much as you want today: it’s National Candy Day! Somebody was thinking synergistically when they scheduled these two days so near each other. We’re going to take this opportunity to think about candy in [...]

If you know us (or if you’ve visited our office), you’re familiar with our addiction to sweet, sweet cereal. Cereal boxes are stacked high on the shelves like so many tomes of classic literature, and piles of flakes, puffs and Os are strewn throughout the place. Our most prized belongings, the rare books collection of [...]

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 [...]

For no apparent reason (save the novelty value of randomness), foodie magazine Gourmet recapped its own history today with a list of favorite cookie recipes for each of its 67 years in print. Be warned, each recipe is accompanied by one of Gourmet’s mouthwatering close-up cookie shots that will have you at your baking stations [...]