I absolutely love watching food videos. With varying degrees of success, I sometimes try to duplicate dishes that invariably turn out to be harder to prepare than they look.
I won’t be trying this one! It shows the creation of a chocolate dessert served at New York’s Del Posto, whose owners are restaurant icons Mario Batali, […]

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Here’s a story that shows how important it is to be careful about the costume you wear to an office Halloween party.
Attorney Lisa C. Johnson, writing for LegalZoom, sums up a “bizarre” sexual harassment case first reported in the AM Law Daily.
A woman who held a mid-level executive job at a Massachusetts company “sued her […]

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Family Day is a fairly new holiday, celebrated on the fourth Monday of September. This year, it falls on September 27th.
The idea is simple: Have dinner as a family at least five nights a week, to slash the risk of your kids’ using tobacco, alcohol, or illegal drugs.
According to research from the National Center on […]

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Fruit crisps are among our favorite recipes for entertaining. Sure, they contain butter and sugar. But even a small serving of luscious, warm apples, blueberries, plums, pears, or nectarines under a crunchy blanket…

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