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For most of you home cooks out there, there’s probably one kitchen tool that you can’t or wouldn’t want to live without. There are so many fancy electronic kitchen gadgets available now, I wanted find out from our kitchen team their preferred simple tool.

You've seen Carmindy on What Not To Wear right? Think she's pretty on TV? Well, she's about 3,000 times more stunning in person...so obviously I'll be taking her beauty advice to heart.

Running and I have been on a break. See, we’ve been seeing each other for more than 10 years in a lukewarm, dependant, familiar relationship, one that’s marked by periods of heavy infatuation and later followed by an angry breakup and swearing I’d never run again.

I'm reflecting on all the things I have to be thankful for...friends, family, my jobs, and an amazing country to call home.

What woman doesn't love being reminded by a snack food ad that being thin is the ultimate female achievement? In their new and insultingly offensive ad campaign, Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps is betting the house on the fact that we're all just dying to be skinny, with slogans like "you can never be too thin" (it turns out you can). Now, in response to the naturally outraged cries of women stoked on their non-skinny bodies, the company has launched a website reminding everyone to "Lighten up, it's a pretzel ad." Hot tip for Snack Factory's marketing team: try not to make your target demographic hate you.  

It’s sweater season! Wrap yourself in this year’s warmest runway trend

We asked Avis Cardella, reformed shopping addict and author of Spent: Memoirs of a Shopping Addict, to weigh in.

Mom always said not to judge a book by its cover, but when that book is by Tina Fey, and that cover features the 30 Rock star with gigantic man hands, it's hard to resist. A sneak peek of the cover of her forthcoming book, titled Bossypants, reveals a demure Fey in a typical thoughtful author pose, but with enormous, hairy masculine forearms in place of her own. It's both gross and fabulous, which, knowing Fey, is exactly what she was aiming for.

Yesterday was a blah day for me. Sporadic rain never puts me in a yippee mood and I also woke with a head rattling headache.