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Oranges are my favorite fruit, and if I didn't see another one until next winter, I'd be OK with that.

Padma Lakshmi is no stranger to waking up early. As a person who’s often on a TV set, she regularly has call times that require her to be up before the sun. That does not, however, mean she skips breakfast.

The holiday season is a delicate balancing act for those raising kids. There are plenty of social events to attend (many of which involve alcohol), but you’ve also gotta, you know, make sure your children don’t die. For most parents, that means hiring a sitter so they can enjoy a worry-free night out with a few drinks. But if a recent report is any indication, partying parents may want to line up some childcare help for January 1st.

The best part of peeling vegetables is not having to wash them. I love a banana or an orange, because you never need to worry about running them under a tap—they have their own carrying cases. Just peel and go! Why would you make your life weirdly harder by washing a part of the fruit you're not going to eat? This also was my logic with avocados. Why wash them? you're just going to throw away the peel, right? Right?

Christmas pudding has always been a staple of my family holiday. My mother is from Ireland, so it's a pudding in the Irish way, not than the Jell-O way. It involves many kinds of dried fruit, nuts, a great deal of rum, and very little sugar, at least for my childhood palate.

Last year, the Thai government moved to ban street food in Bangkok in an effort to clean up the city. It was heartbreaking news that made international headlines; street food is one of Bangkok’s most beloved characteristics. For now, the streets of Thailand’s capital city are still packed with carts selling fast, affordable, and fantastic food available all day and night. When you're looking for breakfast, there are plenty of ways to go to.

When it comes to almond milk, you basically have two options. You can go to the store and grab a carton, or you can DIY.

With the holidays here and Paul Hollywood still giving out handshakes to British people on Netflix, baked goods are definitely on our minds these days. And while so-called edible glitter is an effective way to jazz up cakes and other confections, but you might want to be careful before actually ingesting that stuff.

Reinventions of beloved brands can go very, very wrong. Think about New Coke. Think about when they tried to make ketchup blue. It's a dangerous proposition to mess with a classic, even with the best of intentions. So it's only natural that you might have some trepidation about the new recipe for Butterfinger, that beloved candy bar of Bart Simpson. Last week, Butterfinger's parent company Ferrero announced that they were rolling out a new formula for the candy that involved a different type of peanut, more cocoa, and cutting out certain ingredients used in the original.

The brand Wellbeing by Lipton recently sent me two packages of tea.