Andrew Amelinckx

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Amelinckx

New Orleans is famous for its unique culinary traditions brimming with exceptional flavors and ingredients. This extends beyond savory dishes, like gumbo and red beans and rice, to sweet treats as well. Whether it's doberge cake, the multi-layered cake with custard, or beignets, the puffy fried dough that's hollow inside and doused in powdered sugar — a must-try regional food — New Orleanians love their confections. One of these, Hubig's Pies, has been a New Orleans go-to for more than 100 years.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Amelinckx

If you're like us, your fridge may contain more than a few half-empty containers of various foods and beverages. And if one of those is a jar that still has a smidge of applesauce at the bottom that you haven't gotten around to eating, we've got a tasty way to finish it off: Drink it. Opened applesauce has a shelf life of around 10 days, so time's ticking here. There are a few ways to make a delicious cocktail using applesauce, and they all start with whiskey.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Amelinckx

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There was a time when canned food ruled the kitchen, whether it was New England's canned brown bread or England's favorite "tinned" dessert, both of which still exist. These days, canned goods aren't quite as hot as they once were, but that hasn't stopped companies from continuing to produce them. Case in point is Ambrosia, not to be confused with the purely American Ambrosia salad that was once considered a luxury.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Amelinckx

Fast food behemoth McDonald's has been embroiled in more than a few controversies over the years. Some were bigger than others, such as the hot coffee lawsuit in 1992, when a 79-year-old woman sued after suffering third-degree burns from a cup of the company's coffee. Others weren't as bad, such as when McDonald's changed its apple pie recipe. Still other controversies were totally beyond its control, such as when McDonald's coffee stirrers became the go-to utensil for some recreational drug users.

2 weeks ago | grunge.com | Andrew Amelinckx

For more than 260 years, a grand spectacle has taken place in London, England, involving more than 1,400 British troops with hundreds of musicians, horses, and other martial pageantry to celebrate the reigning British monarch's birthday. It's called Trooping the Colour (aka the King's Birthday Parade) and it's just one of the strange British royal rituals that are still carried out today.