Food and Drink
A lot of what Americans call comfort food started as someone’s German grandmother’s recipe
The recipes had taken such deep root that during World War I, Americans sometimes renamed German foods rather than give them up.
Home cooks turned the air fryer into a real oven and left frozen food behind
What home cooks discovered along the way is that the appliance sitting on their counter functions as a real oven, capable of roasting, baking and browning.
Americans are tipping at food trucks less, and the rules were never clear to begin with
Many food trucks prepare meals to order in tight quarters, but the tipping norms that loosely govern sit-down restaurants and fast food counters have never clearly applied here.
Lifestyle
Fall candles are a billion-dollar business, and the brain is mostly to blame
The fall candle season is one of the most reliable spending surges in American retail, and new research into how smell and memory interact in the brain helps explain why it works so well.
