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Why we’re supporting World Central Kitchen’s lifesaving work in the Bahamas. We hope you will too.

by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 12, 2019 | Columns

We always say it: Our readers have the biggest hearts. And so many of you have been asking how best to help those impacted by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. While the destruction of these beautiful islands is indeed tragic, it’s the human toll that’s...

Jeni’s Ice Cream for Breakfast collection is sending 100% of the profits to She Should Run. Now that’s women supporting women!

by Liz Gumbinner | Jan 23, 2019 | Shopping Finds

For ages, we’ve talked about the joys of serving breakfast for dinner for our kids. But dessert for breakfast? I’m all in for that. Especially when it’s the Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream for Breakfast collection, which happens to be doing more than...

How Kraft is offering free groceries to furloughed federal workers, with one beautifully small request

by Liz Gumbinner | Jan 15, 2019 | Recipes

No sooner do we finish writing about ways you can buy a beer for a a furloughed federal worker during the government shutdown, but we’ve gotten another notification, this time from a big brand helping to feed DC-area families who could use the help right now...

#PayItFurloughed lets you buy a beer for a furloughed government worker during the shutdown

by Liz Gumbinner | Jan 15, 2019 | Columns

There’s both something tear-jerkingly beautiful and terribly sad about the thousands of crowdfunding campaigns that have popped up to support furloughed federal workers people during what’s now the longest government shutdown in US history. Hard-working...

Julia Turshen’s new cookbook is perfect for everyday, holidays and gift-giving — if you can bear to part with it.

by Jane Sweeney | Nov 11, 2018 | Christmas, Cookbooks, Gift Guides, Holiday Cooking

Julia Turshen has done it again with Now & Again: Go-To Recipes, Inspired Menus + Endless Ideas for Reinventing Leftovers, a cookbook I immediately read straight through — and one in which I instantly wanted to cook every recipe. In fact, I can safely call...

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