Everyone remembers their first trip to Paris.

The pernicious insistence women’s interest publications place on the idea of being a “stress-free host” is ruining exactly what makes home entertaining over the holidays (and beyond) appealing.

What makes a restaurant great?

Sandwiched between two bearded colleagues -- one named Ben, the other, Brandon -- I'm eating a strawberry ice cream cone.

I had my iPhone for about three days when, mid-text conversation with a friend, I got this abrupt warning: "BTW your read receipts are on."

Remember when you were 12 and your mom would come home from Costco with a sleeve of doughy croissants and those fat, dense muffins with never-quite-identifiable blueberry or chocolate chip chunks???

The thing about bananas is that people will eat them (or at least find a use for them) until they're well-past ripe and verging on brown.

The seventh episode of the second season of Raw Craft with Anthony Bourdain -- a sponsored web series that features American artisans -- takes a look at a woman blacksmith so flippin' cool that you won't even notice Balvenie distillery's product placement.

In what is one of the oddest, weirdly adorable celebrity pairings, Martha Stewart, a nice-ish lady who bakes cookies, is joining up with Snoop Dogg, an aging family man who gets baked, for a new VH1 cooking series titled Martha & Snoop's Dinner Party, the exact air date of which hasn't been released yet.

While some may argue that you'd actually be a much healthier person if you skipped breakfast entirely, breakfast really is the most important meal of the day.

The benefit of this method is that a super-low and steady temperature produces magical things.

Aside from the gimmes -- friends, family, dog, etc. -- there are few things in this world I care about more than toast.