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- The Sweetest Things to Dip in Chocolate Fondue
- 52 Products Our Community Loved (As Much as We Did) This Year
- A Coptic Orthodox Christmas: Fasts, Feasts & Plenty of Cheese
- 2022’s Colors of the Year Have a Lot in Common
| The Sweetest Things to Dip in Chocolate Fondue Posted: 31 Dec 2021 11:00 AM PST Winter is the time when chocolate fondue shines, and we are here for it. New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day are the occasions when everyone says, "Oh yeah, I have a fondue pot! I should use it!" It's romantic and celebratory, plus who wouldn't want to dip anything and everything in a chocolate waterfall? It also elicits good conversation, like "You have chocolate in your teeth" and "Can you pass me another marshmallow?" Really moving stuff. Ahead, find out how to make our easy chocolate fondue recipe so you can go from thinking "A fondue pot? I will never use this" to breaking it out mid-workday for a sugary pick-me-up. From Our Shop Chocolate fondue can seem intimidating, messy, overly fancy, and not something for the average home cook. But that really couldn't be further from the truth. For starters, our go-to chocolate fondue recipe calls for only two ingredients: chopped high-quality chocolate or chocolate chips and heavy cream (plus a little bit of salt). You can use dark, milk, or white chocolate, though ideally not all three together. Oh, and you don't even need a fondue pot to make it! You absolutely can use one, especially because it lends itself to easy dipping, but a saucepan will work just as well. |
| 52 Products Our Community Loved (As Much as We Did) This Year Posted: 31 Dec 2021 09:00 AM PST A big part of my job (okay, like 75 percent) involves learning about new products and brands, and sharing them with all of you. But as much as I love introducing our community to new things, I actually enjoy learning from you all much more. Whether it be through reader comments, recipe contests, holiday gift swaps, and even our FiveTwo line, we're always looking to our readers to tell us what they like (or really don't like), what they want to see more of, and what they might want to see less of. That's why we're taking a look back at the most popular products that you all bought and loved in 2021, like more than 300 sets of Brooklinen's crisp percale sheets and 700 Scrub Daddy sponges. This year, we learned that everyone was rolling up their sleeves to give every inch of their space a deep clean, reimagining their spaces to be more functional and cozy, and (to no one's surprise) cooking and baking every waking moment. Ahead, 52 products that got your stamp of approval. |
| A Coptic Orthodox Christmas: Fasts, Feasts & Plenty of Cheese Posted: 31 Dec 2021 07:00 AM PST January 6 is usually the date that Christmas decorations come down in the Western world. It also happens to be Christmas Eve for many—those who belong to Eastern Orthodox churches around the world, in places like Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Syria, Armenia, Russia, and Greece (and many others). For this large, global community, Christmas Day is January 7, and usually marks the end of a 40-day period of pescatarian or vegan fasting. Because of this, the day is typically celebrated with a meaty feast—for Egyptians, this usually includes an obligatory side of cheese (more on that in a moment). From Our Shop Why celebrate the same holiday more than a week later than members of a different branch of the same religion? A historical disagreement over which calendar to use, of course. The Eastern Orthodox Church marks many liturgical dates according to the Julian calendar; Catholic and Protestant churches follow the Gregorian calendar. Fasting is a pivotal part of Orthodox faith: For Coptic Egyptians, this can involve abstaining from animal products, or not eating or drinking at all during specific hours, for more than 210 days of the year for various commemorations. |
| 2022’s Colors of the Year Have a Lot in Common Posted: 30 Dec 2021 06:30 AM PST As each year draws to a close, I find myself anxiously awaiting the color trend reports for the following year. There's just some sort of low-key optimism that comes along with the announcement—the anticipation of new things to come, and the comforting promise of change on the horizon. Sure, the color trends could be taken at face value—corporate-picked hues selected to influence what shades all our favorite clothes and home accessories will be cast in in the following months—but they can also mean much more than that. In the past several years, companies like Pantone, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, and more have used the palette as a porthole to a wider conversation about our world at large. Seen that way, the colors chosen as the following year's trends are no longer just colors—they're the physical embodiment of our conversations, our ethos, the times we live in. |
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