A family is turning its pain into purpose after it unexpectedly lost a loved one. The Cooks —Kim, Lindsey, Brittney and Cailin Cook of Sacramento, California — started Something Sweet in 2022. It’s a premium, frozen cookie dough brand that ships nationwide. Fox News Digital spoke with mom Kim Cook, as well as Lindsey Cook, 27, and Brittney Cook, 25, …
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Easy-drinking herbal beer gruit inspired by era when ale was aphrodisiac, medicine, hallucinogen
Beermaker Craig Neuzil called Decorah Nordic Gruit “the anti-IPA.” “Everybody was making these big, juicy, India pale ales and seeing how much hop bitterness they could get into it,” said Neuzil, the brewer-owner of Pivo Brewery in Calmar, Iowa. “I said, ‘Let’s go the opposite way. Let’s make an easy-drinking beer with zero hops and no bitterness.'” 5 DELICIOUS FOOD …
Read More »5 delicious food pranks that proved a hungry public craves every morsel of news
People crave a good story. Perhaps that’s why these five far-fetched food fantasies on April Fools’ Day in previous years fooled the public hungry for a good story — and maybe something new and delicious to eat. Check these five out. 1. Taco Bell chimes in with landmark claim Fast-food chain Taco Bell took a daring risk in 1996 by …
Read More »Easter at the White House: First lady's commemorative eggs revealed as decades-long tradition continues
While the Easter Egg Roll is a favorite event for American families, the “First Lady’s Commemorative Egg” tradition continues after nearly five decades. For 2024, first lady Jill Biden has been given not just one egg, but seven. Emily Metz, American Egg Board president and CEO, shared details about the special eggs prior to the rollout in an interview with …
Read More »Chocolate Easter bunnies leaped from Pennsylvania Dutch ingenuity, hobbled by inflation in 2024
Chocolate Easter bunnies are a sweet example of European tradition re-imagined by American ingenuity and capitalist creativity. Credit first-generation German-American Robert Lincoln Strohecker, known in confectioner’s lore as the “Father of the Chocolate Easter Bunny.” The source of Strohecker’s legend was a massive 5-foot-tall (or perhaps even taller) solid chocolate rabbit he displayed outside Pennsylvania retailers in 1890 to popularize …
Read More »Catskill Mountain farmer challenges campus critics who say foragers are 'destroying the Earth'
Rick Bishop has spent decades foraging for ramps in the Catskill Mountains, guided by the country wisdom he learned long ago from an old-time woodsman. “He told me that ramps clean the winter right out of your blood,” said Bishop, a farmer, forager and owner of Mountain Sweet Berry Farm in Roscoe, New York, to Fox News Digital. Ramps are …
Read More »Hot weekend read: Man dials police over Sasquatch, plus a father-in-law's text goes viral
Lifestyle stories this week included a fisherman’s monstrous catch, a father-in-law’s text gone viral, delicious food stories, interesting Americana and a strange call to police involving Sasquatch — and more. Fun quizzes and crosswords are always available to dive into as well. (Fox News Digital publishes daily crossword puzzles seven days a week.) CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR …
Read More »Top UK health official urges against eating whole Easter egg in 'one go' hit with backlash: 'Life too short'
After a top England’s National Health Service (NHS) director warned people “not to eat the whole Easter egg in one go,” doctors hit back, saying that “life is too short” to cut back this holiday season. In a blog post, Dr Andrew Kelso, a NHS medical director, advised people to watch their waistline and show constraint when it comes to …
Read More »New York City wiener war recalls glory days when Big Apple battles ruled baseball
New York City’s boroughs once battled for World Series wins and baseball bragging rights. The Yankees from the Bronx, the Dodgers from Brooklyn and the Giants from Manhattan won eight straight World Series in Major League Baseball from 1949 to 1956. Those “diamond daze” of the 1950s are long gone. CRACKER JACK, IMMORTALIZED IN BASEBALL ANTHEM, IS A GRAND-SLAM RECIPE …
Read More »Cracker Jack, immortalized in baseball anthem, is a grand-slam recipe at home, too
Cracker Jack has enjoyed an all-American reputation as the signature snack of the national pastime for more than a century. “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack/I don’t care if I ever get back,” is one of the refrains of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” The iconic tune, written in 1908, is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch …
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