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Happy Hump Day! Here is a Geological Stratigraphic Column Cake

This cake--based on a Threadless t-shirt concept--is equal parts scholarly and 7-year-old-let-loose-in-the-kitchen.
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How to Eat Food from Your Favorite Movies

The web site movierecipes.net posts recipes and videos so you can make the food featured in classic movies.
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The Radio Toaster Puts the Eats in Your Beats

Check out Breville's new dual AM/FM radio / toaster.
Cooking

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi

Jif's funny kid-friendly recipe takes three ingredients, three steps, and three minutes.
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This Is Why GIFs Were Invented

Paula Deen riding a butter bronco bareback.
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The Best Possible Way to Use 146 Empty Beer Bottles

Watch musicians use 146 empty beer bottles to perform Vittorio Monti's "Czardas."
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Happy Hump Day

A spoof of As Seen on TV mail-order products brings new meaning to eating with your hands.
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Miracle Whip Wants You to Know Some People Think It Tastes Like Spreadable Disappointment

Kraft's latest commercial for their sweet mayo alternative shows Jersey Shore's Pauly D rejecting Miracle Whip as even a pomade for his greasy spikes.
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George Washington's Handwritten Beer Recipe

At left you'll find George Washington's handwritten recipe for "small beer," recently published on the New York Public Library's Tumblr.
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Coke's Secret Recipe Revealed

Any plutocrat would thirst after the secret to the beverage's success, so Coke shelters the formula in equal parts intrigue and propaganda. But now, This American Life says it has the recipe.
Restaurants

Does Bacon Mania Need to Get Cut Back?

Check out Seattle Weekly's fun illustration on the history of bacon, from inexpensive and delicious protein source to campy domineering meme.
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Paula Deen's Valentine's Cake Calls for 14 Cups of Sugar

Paula Deen posted her recipe for this Sugared Rose Parade Layer Cake on Twitter today.
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Starbucks' New Trenta Size in Perspective

Trenta means thirty in Italian, but Starbucks literally one ups the translation with a cup that holds 31 ounces of liquid.
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Listen to This Very Funny Podcast About Snacks

Comedian and actor Michael Ian Black and actor Tom Cavanagn take a single snack per podcast and analyze its snacking merit in a way no podcast has achieved before.
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Happy Year of the Rabbit! Now, Learn How to Cook One

Celebrate the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit by cooking our amazing Rabbit Etouffee with Baked Cheese Grits.
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Eating Roadkill

Over at Slate, Catherine Price weighs the social stigma (and potential health risks) of peeling one's dinner off the street against the sustainable and local food movement.
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If You Hate Either Pizza or Star Trek, Don't Buy This Pizza Cutter

On a one to ten scale of geeky pizza gadgets, we give it a Deep Dish Nine.