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  • Most Memorable Presidential Birthdays
    The irony of Presidents' Day is that we don’t know exactly when George Washington was born — either Feb. 11 or 22. At the time of his birth in the 1730s, the Julian calendar was still being used by the British Empire, who didn’t...

  • A Cocktail Party, on a Stick
    What’s one of the easiest ways to dress up the standard cocktail party? Putting traditional party foods on a stick. It sounds simple enough, but this thin, wooden serving utensil will force you to flex you culinary chops, especially if you...

  • 10 Outrageous Super Bowl Parties
    While many celebrate the Super Bowl with parties at home, the week leading up to the big game has turned into a 24/7 bacchanal featuring booze, scantily clad women, and a roster of A-list and has-been names looking to party in the host city. From Playboy...

  • Host the Perfect Super Bowl Party
    When it comes to game day, there are a few ground rules: having the game on TV, good company, and some mouthwatering food and thirst quenchers to wash it all down with. But we’re not talking wings from the corner BBQ place and a couple of 12-packs...

  • America's Favorite Holiday Feasts
    Chances are good that you’re having one of three main courses for your holiday dinner: turkey, ham, or a beef roast. These workhorses of the winter table are all worthy, but they aren’t the only players out there. Click here to see the America...

  • 10 Most Lavish Office Holiday Parties
    It’s holiday party season. Just last year, the corporate holiday party took a nosedive thanks to the slumping economy and the possible PR backlash. Who wanted to flaunt their wealth (if applicable) when millions of Americans were looking for work?...

  • 10 Lavish Athlete Birthday Bashes
    It’s the best kind of present sports fans could ever ask for this year — the season openers for the 2011-2012 NBA season on Dec. 25. Many eyes will be on LeBron James and his Heat teammates this year, already championship favorites according...

  • White House Holiday Traditions
    While it’s just starting to feel like Christmas outside, the holiday spirit has been in full swing at the White House. After months of secret planning, and more than 3,500 hours of work required to hang thousands of feet of garland, numerous 14-foot...

  • Gail Simmons' Perfect Party Music Picks
    Every host knows how important good music is when having people over. But assembling the right playlist can be hard. Maybe you spend days laboring over creating just the right collection of tunes or routinely awake with a start in the middle of the night...

  • 11 Things That Make Your Waiter Mad
    Ever wonder what your waiter says about you when he goes back into the kitchen? Sure you have. Remember that night when one of your martini-soaked relatives complained to the restaurant about the size of the serving plates? In his mind, they were too...

  • 8 Tips on How to Behave When Dining Out
    Ever go to a nice restaurant and order your favorite dish, only to have it served out of whack? What's the best way to handle this? Click for 8 Tips on How to Behave When Dining Out Slideshow. I recently faced such a conundrum at a swanky, old-...

  • Where the NFL Eats
    Beef, it’s what’s for dinner — at least if you’re an NFL player fueling up. Polling teams' media relations staff members and city insiders reveals that their players, and visiting ones, like to eat prime-grade steaks and...

  • 4 Ways Dining Out Can Make You a Better Host
    My girlfriend Elizabeth and I were visiting L.A. last month and had one free night. Why not go big on dinner, we thought? We’d been eating turkey sandwiches and hoarding airplane peanuts, so we could justify the three-course meal and splurging on a...

  • 10 Best High-End Restaurants for Delivery and Takeout
    Sweatpants as an acceptable form of dress, no 40-minute wait times, and much cheaper wine and spirits are among the joys of eating restaurant meals at home. Plus, there's the ability to sit on your couch and watch your favorite television show. But...

  • 10 Best Spots for Late-Night Eats
    “Best” is an ambiguous word to use when making a list about late-night fare. One night you might have a hankering for hash, the next prime rib. One of the most memorable early morning meals I’ve ever had was room service at the Beverly...

  • 10 Deadly Dinner Parties
    It was a scary prospect to attend a Borgia dinner party in the Middle Ages. The European papal family was known to poison guests who presented, well… a conflict with whatever the Borgia believed. But at least they reserved the potent potion for...

  • How to Eat Well While Marathon Training
    Having slimmed down from 250 pounds in 2005 to his New York City Marathon-ready body, restaurateur Joe Bastianich is an inspiration for in-shape food lovers and out of shape couch potatoes alike. At the recent Grana Padano tasting that he hosted at his...

  • What Your Order Says About You on a Date
    Dinner dates offer plenty of chances for close inspection. Is the restaurant appropriate for the occasion? Is the reservation time fashionable? What about the price ceiling? Is your date being too flashy or stingy? What you order can say a lot about you...

  • 15 Athlete Food Endorsement Fails
    If there's no such thing as easy money, the closest thing has to be free-flowing cash from celebrity endorsements. All notables seem to have to do is lend their pearly whites to products, attend media events, and tell the masses they, “Better...

  • A Private Spirits Tasting for Grooms-to-Be
    Your buddy is getting married and it’s your task to throw the "Last Night as a Free Man" party. Steer clear of the clichés — they never truly live up to the hype, anyways — and take the group to another kind of gentlemen...

  • Fast Food You Can’t Find in America
    The McRib, Chipotle's chorizo, the Shamrock Shake, the McLobster Roll — there are plenty of hard-to-find, seasonal, and limited-edition items at fast-food joints across America. But there's an even longer list of niche sandwiches and greasy...

  • A Guy's Guide to Hosting the Perfect Party
    Mark Maynard-Parisi knows how to throw a party. As the Managing Director of Operations at Union Square Events, he’s Danny Meyer’s right-hand man for the company’s catering and events arm. Click here to see the Guy-Friendly Crash Course...

  • Celebrities' Fast Food Professions
    What do Rachel McAdams, Seal, Macy Gray, Jay Leno, Sharon Stone, and Shania Twain all have in common? Yes, they are all celebs, but they also all worked for the same company before they hit it big — McDonald’s. Hard to imagine they were "...

  • 10 Best College Football Stadium Eats
    There is no question that a hot dog is a great game day snack, but as college football fans become more food savvy, university athletic departments are giving their stadium menus a gourmet makeover. Throughout the past five years, schools across the...

  • 7 Tips for Surviving Family Reunions
    For most stories, journalists need to reach out to experts in the field. But for this one all I had to do was look at my own family. We like to say that we put “the fun in dysfunctional”. I've seen many an argument on which turn to make...

  • A Man’s Guide to Meeting Her Parents
    Meeting her parents is like the ying and the yang. Her mother wants to like you. She’s hoping that her daughter has found a dashing, charming young man who makes her laugh. As long as you don’t make a complete fool of yourself, her mother will...

  • 10 Truly Organic Brands
    Forget “natural,” could there be a more ambiguous word in food today than “organic”? The term is so difficult to decipher that the USDA has multiple definitions for it. To find foods that are truly organic look for the USDA Organic...

  • Long Weekend in… Asheville, North Carolina
    What’s not to love about a weekend escape to Asheville “Any way you like it” North Carolina? Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town is surrounded by streams, trails, and thick forests in every direction, perfect for whatever your...

  • 10 Celebrity Chefs Who Actually Cook in Their Restaurants
    About three years ago, it became apparent that a handful of celebrity chefs — those hosting TV shows, hawking kitchen wares, touring for their latest cookbook, showing up at the major food festivals, and opening locations around the globe —...

  • What to Make to Impress Your Date (Guy Version)
    Fixing a homemade dinner for your date can be one of the most exhilarating (and terrifying) prospects in a budding relationship. A successful night of entertaining in the kitchen can be had not necessarily by getting everything right, but by coming across...

  • Best Stadium Luxury Box Food Spreads
    If stadium luxury boxes were listed on a restaurant menu they’d be in the form of prime grade dry-aged steaks. Both of these expense account-friendly items help drive the revenue trains for establishments from the Staples Center to Portland's...

  • 10 Best Apps for Hungry Travelers
    In January, Apple’s App Store hit 10 billion downloads after only two and a half years in business. Besides those who like to slingshot birds at pigs on their iPhones, another group that has benefitted from this recent explosion is hungry (and...

  • 10 DIY Culinary Classes
    Ever been at brunch and thought, I could probably cure my own bacon? If you’re traveling to Portland, Ore., anytime soon, you can cure to your heart’s content after a class at The Kitchen. (And to get the authentically Portland food hipster...

  • 10 Best Athlete-Owned Restaurants
    For a variety of reasons — an effort to diversify investments, to create a post-career business opportunity, ego or challenge — many gridiron heroes and ballpark messiahs have splashed their names on an establishment that also serves as a...

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