The Basics: Angel Food Cake


Updated 04/08/11 2:35 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

Angel Food Cake Recipe

Springtime is the perfect season to master an angel food cake. The light, airy, and spongy dessert is wonderfully versatile. It can be served with strawberries and whipped cream for an upscale take on classic strawberry shortcake. Or offer it with coconut ice cream and mango sauce for a tropical-inspired treat. Or plate it with chocolate sauce and raspberries for a decadent dish. Or . . . see, Read more

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage


Updated 05/18/12 12:53 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Mark Tyrrell offers eight relationship tools to make your marriage work. "All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble." — Raymond Hull So how do you make your marriage work? Or do you just blindly hope it'll take care of itself? Think of a hot, successful Read more

Meet This Year's James Beard Award Winners


Updated 05/07/12 6:46 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

James Beard Awards 2012

The time has finally arrived: the James Beard Awards, or the Oscars of the food world, have just been announced. After months of suspense following the announcement of this year's semifinalists and subsequent finalists, the results were announced at a star-studded gala in New York's Lincoln Center, where a smattering of top talent from Grant Achatz to Top Chef winner Paul Qui walked home with Read more

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution 2 Prepares to Air on ABC


Updated 03/24/11 8:49 AM · Posted by · 3 comments

Preview of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution 2

Although he received no support from the Los Angeles School District, British chef Jamie Oliver was able to shoot the entire second season of his documentary-like reality show, Food Revolution, in LA. The program will debut on April 12, and here we have the first preview. With scenes that show a teenage boy declaring honey comes from a bear and a family's living room full of the junk food they Read more

Food & Wine Reveals 2012 Best New Chefs


Updated 04/04/12 10:03 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Food & Wine Best New Chefs 2012

With the recent announcement of the IACP Cookbook Awards and James Beard Awards on the horizon, the cooking world's award season is in full force. Today, Food & Wine magazine unveiled its 2012 class of Best New Chefs, an award it's bestowed upon 10 chefs annually for nearly a quarter of a century. The accolades have been widely regarded as a harbinger of lifelong culinary success; after all, Read more

Get to Know the 2012 Finalists For America's Top Food Awards


Updated 03/19/12 4:45 PM · Posted by YumSugar · 0 comments

2012 James Beard Award Finalists

America is home to more than 100,000 head chefs — and today, a select few of them will be given nods as finalists for the James Beard Awards, the industry's top honors. Among those who made the cut from the list of last month's semifinalists: David Chang, Tom Douglas, and Ina Garten. Winners will be announced on May 7 in an award ceremony at New York's Lincoln Center, to be hosted by none Read more

What I've Learned From Baby Number Two


Updated 02/15/12 4:37 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Differences Between First and Second Children

We're excited to share this post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we will be bringing you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Carolyn Robertson about lessons learned from a second child. Motherhood has been a very humbling experience so far . . . which is a nice way of saying it’s knocked me on my ass many times over. I Read more

Sugar Shout Out: Get Close With Partnered Yoga Poses


Updated 02/10/12 12:41 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Sugar Shout Out For Feb. 8, 2012

Yoga partner poses for lovers and friends The Victoria's Secret Angels share advice on dressing for Valentine's Day Nina, Ian, and Paul strip down for a steamy Vampire Diaries magazine shoot Drop a Valentine's Day hint by cooking up engagement chicken Rachel Zoe's hair and makeup guru Joey Maalouf answers your Twitter questions 11 quotes from Rick Santorum that are worrying for women The Read more

8 Small Ways to Lose Big Pounds in 2012


Updated 01/02/12 6:59 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Small Lifestyle Changes to Help You Lose Big Pounds

We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Prevention here on FitSugar! Quadruple your weight loss by making one easy tweak to your routine per week By Alyssa Shaffer If your goal is to lose weight and exercise more, forget the deprivation diet and marathon workouts. New research shows that taking baby steps — not giant leaps —is the best way to get lasting results. A study Read more

The Burning Question: Is Doing a Detox a Good Idea?


Updated 12/23/11 6:19 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Arguments For and Against Detox Cleanses

We are pumped to share one of our favorite stories from Health.com here on our site. Cleanses have become a "celeb trend", but are they really safe? By Health.com NO: It's risky — and you don't need it. Glenn Braunstein, MD, professor and chairman, department of medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles Our bodies have built-in detoxifiers. The liver, the kidneys, and the Read more