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Hide your vegetables. You’re an adult

The other day, I grated two enormous zucchini into a bowl containing a quarter-can of pumpkin, brown sugar, cocoa powder and enough chopped bittersweet chocolate to make the whole operation look suspiciously like brownie batter. Which, essentially, it was. The…
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Jasmine Crockett’s praise of Chris Brown hit a nerve

This story was originally published by The 19th. This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. What happened: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat,…
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The Kennedy Center culture war just got very online

President Donald Trump continue pushing to reshape the Kennedy Center, including an attempt at renaming and touting Trump-branded upgrades. Now, a writer from the long-running animated adult comedy show “South Park” has stepped in with a quieter but pointed move:…
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Some sequels are destined to disappoint

A family of witches. A picturesque Massachusetts house. A legendary curse. A dead husband. At the start of “Practical Magic 2” — the well-anticipated but not exactly long-overdue sequel to the 1998 cult classic “Practical Magic” — the lives of…
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These stewy mushrooms solve Monday night dinner

I always want Mondays to be a lighter lift than they end up being. I am not going to calculate how many working Mondays I’ve had in my life, but even before I was working, I had a Garfield-esque disdain…
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Taco Bell exposed RFK Jr.’s food-safety failure

On Friday, federal health officials finally put an end date on the largest Cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history. Nearly 13,000 people across 21 states had been sickened, 570 hospitalized and two had died after an outbreak linked to shredded iceberg…
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