When my partner and I relocated to a new-to-us Chicago apartment — an antique-feeling number on the corner of the

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The 40th-anniversary remake of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? charity hit was released on November 25. The new

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Thanksgiving is a marvelous holiday—but not always for our wallets. This year, however, the financial stress (including lingering inflation) doesn’t

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In anticipation of Thanksgiving, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is encouraging consumers to practice proper food safety — especially

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The

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As someone who covers food professionally, Thanksgiving is both a wonderland and a minefield. Every year, the stories could practically

In the 1980’s, the brand Prego ran a television ad for tomato sauce with the repeated phrase, “It’s in there.”

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