Here’s to the guys who are about to sacrifice their holiday to make ours better.

Personal trainers are about to get slammed with New Year’s chubsters who they’ll be tasked with miraculously transforming into strong, Thor-like beings.

New Year’s is still a month out, but before your resolution roster gets crowded with “get in shape”, “try harder at my job”, and other unlikely goals, consider honoring America’s hardworking bartenders by promising to reform the bad barroom behavior all of us are guilty of at one point or another.

You'd probably still remember lyrics to your favorite band's best songs after getting beaned in the head, but how much do you know about the unsung heroes who helped build that artist up from nothing?

17 Things You Didn't Know About Truffle Foraging By John Marshall You probably know truffles as the thing that makes that entree expensive, but these 'shrooms, often worth more than gold by weight, are pricey for a reason: they are really hard to find.

Your oysters have had to do battle to be with you at happy hour -- fighting against the tides of the moon, crustaceous predators, evil sea-sponges -- for near on two years before reaching your multi-tiered seafood platter.

To get the skinny on trimming the fat, we talked to butchers from Kansas City, New York, Bloomington, Seattle, and elsewhere.

We set out with a very clear mission, salute the hardworking dudes and gals who create one of the greatest culinary gifts mankind ever invented: cheese.