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Christmas fruitcake with sugar icing and candied fruits (Getty Images/Sarsmis)

The magnificent history of the maligned and misunderstood fruitcake

Jeffrey Miller
Italian pizza with bacon, pickled cucumber and crispy onion (Getty Images/Ryzhkov)

What’s behind America’s pickle craze?

Kenneth Symsack, Jeffrey Miller
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How Mexico’s lucrative avocado industry found itself in ganglands

Jeffrey Miller
Homemade Bucatini all'Amatriciana pasta with tomato and basil. (Getty Images )

Agnolotti, bucatini and the innovative new “cascatelli” — a brief history of pasta shapes

Jeffrey Miller
Cans of diet cola Tab brand soft drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company are displayed at a supermarket (Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images)

The rise and fall of Tab — after surviving the sweetener scares, the iconic diet soda gets canned

Jeffrey Miller
Actor Roger Moore poses with a martini and a big cigar at the Dorchester Hotel in London, on August 1, 1972. (AP Photo)

3 questions about vodka, answered

Jeffrey Miller

3 questions about tequila, answered

Jeffrey Miller
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A brief history of the s’more, America’s favorite campfire snack

Jeffrey Miller
A fan wears a hat before the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 7, 2016, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

From the Middle East to the Kentucky Derby, the mint julep has always been about staying cool

Jeffrey Miller