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High-End Vegan Restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip
In a surprising shift, major casino restaurants are catering to ultra-strict vegetarians. Even more surprising? The food is excellent.
Cooking
A Parsnip Soup With Walnut Pesto That's Right for Chilly Nights
We're just saying that sometimes a root-vegetable soup (like this one) puts meat stocks to shame
Culture
Pastry of the Week
Introducing the most stunning and delectable Christmas mascot you've ever beheld: B. Patisserie's Buche de Noel
Cooking
5 Tips for Quicker Cooking, From One-Pot Meals to No-Boil Mac-and-Cheese
Too busy to cook? These strategies (and recipes) will save you time, day in and day out
Culture
10 Make-Ahead Christmas Appetizers
Make these Christmas hors d'oeuvres ahead of time so you can focus on the important things: the drinks and the dinner
Culture
Vegan Buche de Noel
Now there's a classic French buche de Noel for you ultra-strict vegetarians as well
Culture
How to Judge a Gingerbread House Competition
Inside a gingerbread-house contest, where it's Rem Koolhaas (with marshmallows) versus a Sandy-ravaged graham cracker home
Culture
Where to Dine Out for New Year's Eve, All Across America
From Atlanta to Los Angeles, here are 12 great restaurants (Spanish, Southern, Sichuan) serving up serious New Year's Eve specials
Culture
Stollen, a German Christmas Bread Recipe From Hot Bread Kitchen
Hot Bread Kitchen brings the booze with this festive German Christmas bread
Culture
A Chinatown Christmas Feast With LuckyRice Founder Danielle Chang
December 25 is a day for gathering, and what could be more communal than an Asian hot pot feast? One stylish Chinatown expert shows how it's done
Lifestyle
5 Mayan Foods You Should Eat Before the World Comes to an End
And I feel like chayote. On the eve of the apocalypse, a primer on Mayan foods
Cooking
15 Ways to Use Bacon Fat, from Cornbread to Cabbage to Cookies
Bacon fat makes everything taste better, from cornbread to cabbage to chocolate-chip cookies
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Bon Appetit Editors, Today at 11 A.M. on Taste Matters Radio
It's BA's Adam Rapoport and Andrew Knowlton, appearing on the Roberta's-based Internet radio show Taste Matters, today at 11 a.m.
techniques
Fyrstekake, a Norwegian Cardamom-Almond Tart
Try it: Fyrstekake. Can't get your tongue around it? Don't worry--it's delicious, anyway
Culture
5 Easy DIY Food Gifts from Chefs Anita Lo, Viet Pham, Aimee Olexy, Jenn Louis, and Tony Maws
Easy DIY food gifts (scones, granola, Sriracha) from five of our favorite restaurant cooks
Culture
Welcome to the World of Black Market Beer
To score some of the world's best craft brews, you have to go underground. Welcome to beer's thriving black market
Restaurants
A History of American Snack Foods, From Waffle Cones to Doritos
A history of the junk food we love, from cotton candy to Tootsie Pops to Cheetos
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Culture
How to Avoid a Hangover with Mercy, Bytox, and Blowfish
Last night's BA holiday party rocked--and no one rocked harder than Amiel Stanek, who was putting various hangover remedies to the test
Culture
What Hobbits Like to Eat
Tolkien's halflings love mid-century British comfort food. Don't scoff! Those mince pies and seed cakes can be tasty for humans, too
Culture
Pastry of the Week
Bang Bang Pie Shop is going to make mincemeat out of you, says Charlotte Druckman, and it's going to be good