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Whatchamacallit, like PayDay, has always been a dark horse among candy bars, relegated to the lower shelves of the…

Dear friends, it is time once again for Cadbury’s annual Bunny Tryouts. Last year, the pets of the Takeout all donned…

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Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports,…

Once upon a time, if you needed water, you would take a drink from a fountain, or, if you were really rustic, a…

I’m not addicted to coffee. I can stop whenever I want to. I just don’t see the point. It’s a pleasant morning…

The hot lunch offerings at my junior high were extremely limited. Aside from a short-lived flirtation with vending…

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In my humble opinion as a food writer, there is no finer cookie, especially for making at home, than chocolate chip.…

Very few of us earn the vast sums of money we think we deserve, but most teenagers—unless they are among the lucky…

I will not argue that the quarantined Americans of the past year have had it harder than the Forty-Niners who headed…

Any Jew will tell you that it’s hard to be a Jew, and that includes the Jews who arrived in America from Eastern…

Joe Biden got up early this morning to go to Mass. Then he dropped by the Capitol to get inaugurated. Then he and…

As I write this, Donald Trump has officially left the White House and is on his way back to Mar-a-Lago, where he can…

1968 was not the most peaceful and gentle of times: the nation was at war overseas, there were violent protests at…

Have any of you ever tried the 1,200-calorie diet? It’s something I never heard of until I read this essay by…

Much has been written about the bizarreness of the Year of Our (or someone’s) Lord 2020, and that extended to food…