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We belong in any family that we choose to make for ourselves and however that looks for us. It was definitely a choice that I ...

Critics weren't impressed by Meghan Markle's new Netflix show, but I wanted to put her dishes and hosting tips to the test.

The famous Venice Beach restaurant finally has an outpost in New York, but something is inevitably lost in the migration.

Why high-powered Massachusetts moms are secretly ditching their careers for full-time family life—and why they won’t talk ...

Once I breached the inner sanctum of flowers, shrubs, trees, seeds, fertilizer and all sorts of yard doodads, I was a goner.

Calling Thailand the Land of Smiles might seem like setting the bar a little high, but after spending three weeks there, I ...

As I and many of the people I know get on in years, we tend to extend our birthdays. Usually prior to as opposed to after THE ...

It’s easy to see why Gladstone describes “The Wedding Banquet” as “a really high quality-of-life project.” The film was the ...

An incredible concentration of culinary star power gathered in Manhattan to celebrate the life and career of André Soltner, ...

When you get older, you realize there aren’t many of them left so you take as much leniency as you can squish in for ...

It felt like ... "There's nothing so fancy about a crudité platter, except that it's called crudité," she says in one episode, before making a stunning platter complete with edible flowers.