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25 Sweet Ways With Bananas

Posted 04.29.2013 | Taste

This fruit has skills when it comes to dessert.

14 Crimes Against The Banana

Posted 04.25.2013 | Taste

Does anyone actually think these things taste like banana??

'Joking Is in My Blood'

Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.16.2013 | Comedy
Jerry Zezima

As a frequent blood donor and a proud member of the Gallon Club, which has nothing to do with my weekend beer consumption, I have often wondered if the people who get my blood suffer from terrible side effects like telling stupid jokes and growing a mustache.

You Are My Sunshine -- Butterscotch-Banana Blondies

Ken Leung | Posted 01.19.2013 | Taste
Ken Leung

Butter! Once we were able to return to the apartment after Hurricane Sandy, I wanted the smell of brown butter to once again fill the kitchen. The bars of gold and silver wrapped Kerrygold butter sat on the cool floor tiles awaiting our retrieval, like treasures resting in Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

Nuts About It: Peanut Butter And Jelly Cake

Ken Leung | Posted 12.15.2012 | Taste
Ken Leung

With fall settling in for a stay, there's no shortage of good, local, fresh ingredients for creative baking, but I can't stop thinking of peanut butter, specifically Crunchy Peanut Butter Banana Pudding and now Peanut Butter & Jelly Cake.

Supermarket Advertising 'Common Sense' Sells Peeled Bananas In Plastic Wrap

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 09.20.2012 | Home

A German-owned supermarket chain with a slogan that promotes common sense has found itself under fire for showing the opposite. Billa supermarkets,...

The Best Amazon Reviews For This Ridiculous Banana Slicer

Posted 09.17.2012 | Home

One of the defining signs of when a consumer product is truly preposterous is when its online reviews turn into parody. Take the "BIC For Her" pen, wi...

PHOTO: The Best Way To Sell Bananas, Ever

Posted 09.15.2012 | Home

This might have us even more amused than a rollerskating turtle stealing lettuce: On one hand, there's some obvious sexual innuendo going on, b...

PHOTO: Banana Carved In The Shape Of Antique Gun

Posted 06.04.2012 | Home

Get a load of this banana, fashioned in the shape of a .45 caliber flintlock and posted to Reddit by user LexBubble. Just in case you're not a...

Five Ways To Satisfy A Sweet Tooth In Under 15 Minutes

Small Kitchen College | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste
Small Kitchen College

Even if dessert is not usually your jam, you know what it's like to have a sweets craving. The need for sweets is real and unavoidable, and it often hits when there isn't much time to be spent slaving over a soufflƩ.

George Zimmerman's Lawyer Prepares His Twinkie Defense Strategy "The Monty Python Defense"

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.26.2012 | Politics
Martin Lewis

My client George Zimmerman is a very vulnerable individual weighing only 250 pounds. Fragile and delicate like a petite, gamine ballet dancer. His assailant Trayvon Martin was over 100 pounds lighter -- making him much more agile and dangerous.

Homemade Larabars

Small Kitchen College | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste
Small Kitchen College

I love Larabars. They are delicious, dense and high in fiber and nutrients like potassium. Their downside, however, is painful, because their price tag breaks the bank.

Battle Of The Banana: Warhol Vs. Velvet Undergound

Posted 01.11.2012 | Arts

Andy Warhol's career was based on repurposing well-known celebrity images and brands, but now the Warhol Foundation has found itself in a heated battl...

Flaming Dessert Burns Restaurant Patrons

Anneli Rufus | Posted 09.04.2011 | Home
Anneli Rufus

That's a tragic story, not to be miminized in any way. But one of the main reasons it shocks us is that fruit is not supposed to hurt.

College Town Ice Cream Parlor Roundup

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 08.28.2011 | College
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Here is a list of ice cream parlors around the country near different colleges, big and small, that will blow your taste-buds away.

My Favorite Healthy Breakfast

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Maria Rodale

OK, let's get real. This time of year it's about focusing on health, not indulgence. And as much as some people out there would like to cultivate the ...

High-Grade Goods: Take Back-to-School Shopping Back to the Earth

Avital Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Avital Andrews

These pens and mechanical pencils from Paper Mate look and feel like regular plastic but are made of biodegradable sugar-plant parts. Their packaging is plastic-free and 100 percent recyclable.

Astoria Characters: The Sicilian Saint

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

2010-06-29-saint.jpg It happens every June: St. Antonio Abate makes a four-night appearance on Ditmars Boulevard at his namesake feast.

Harold Ford Has a Caribbean American Dilemma, and a Trip to Haiti Won't Cut It

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Yvonne R. Davis

Caribbean American leaders question Ford's sincerity when it comes to issues that impact the nearly 700,000 Caribbean Americans in New York City alone.

Teen Tries To Use Banana As Gun In Hold-Up, Fails, Eats Banana

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Authorities in North Carolina say a store owner and a patron thwarted a teen accused of trying to carry out a robbery by c...

Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Johann Hari

Bananas are dying. Soon -- in 5, 10 or 30 years -- the yellow creamy fruit as we know it will not exist.

Am I Slowly Giving Myself a Heart Attack?

Leslie Goldman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Leslie Goldman

Our gender may not believe we're as vulnerable as our male counterparts, but we account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths.