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The Italian bakery explained: A guide to every cookie and pastry

The typical Italian bakery can be overwhelming experience. Here's the ultimate guide to every item.

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Choose choux for tasty pastries and bakery savories

I believe in miracles. How else can you explain a process that turns just a few common ingredients — flour, milk, butter, salt and eggs — into a dough that puffs up when it cooks, leaving a large, fillable hole tantalizingly in the center?And not only that, but the resulting baked good is as light and golden and inviting, an unobtrusive foundation for whatever filling you choose.

10 Mistakes Everyone Makes When Buying Bread

The secret to the perfect piece of toast? Buying the right bread, of course.

What Bagel Are You?

Beer Experts Say These Are The 20 Best Beers In The World

Stanford TK calculated that expert users on RateBeer rated these 20 beers the best in the world.

What a Baker from Ancient Pompeii Can Teach Us about Happiness

While they weren’t living through a pandemic, citizens of ancient Pompeii weren’t strangers to societal stress.

Watch and Share Jenny's Life-Saving Story

Doctors declared Jenny brain dead and pressured her husband to donate her organs. Three weeks later she woke up.

Breast Cancer Patient Does Beautiful Photoshoot To Empower Other Cancer Patients

Jill Brzezinski-Conley, suffering from an incurable form of cancer, put together the project so other women going through treatment would be inspired to share the realities of breast cancer.

Love linen? Time to indulge in the luxury of the world's oldest fabric

There is much to love about cool, enduring linen. Use of this favourite fabric dates back some 36,000 years, as proved by dyed flax fibres found in a cave in what is now Georgia in Eastern Europe. Ancient Egyptians used linen for clothing and mummification. Today it is a staple for homes, from curtains, bed and table linen and upholstery, to its newest format of sturdy, lightweight, shock-absorbing composites for use with sporting equipment, car parts, stereo speakers and even guitars.

Lucknowites go all out to pamper their furry friends

Pet lovers are making the most of the grooming stores that have come up in the city of late

15 of the Most Beautiful Homemade Cake Decorating Ideas

One Military Caregiver's Story

America shouldn't forget the sacrifices of those who care for the wounded. Rachel O'Hern tells the story of her life as a military caregiver, one of millions of spouses, family members, and friends who support service members and veterans with physical or emotional injuries or illnesses.

How to Enjoy a Busy Wedding Season Without Going Broke

It’s the season of gauzy canopies, lacy gowns and stiff penguin suits. That being the case, and with wedding invitations flooding your mailbox, you might already be booking your weekends with weddi…

Ask Anna: I can't date due to chronic pain. How do I accept this?

Sex and dating columnist Anna Pulley encourages a lonely, unhappy reader who cannot date due to a chronic illness.

Let Them Eat Wedding Cake!

Aside from the bride’s gown, when it comes to weddings there is probably no more iconic image than the wedding cake.