Thanksgiving is fast approaching here in the United States. Originally a commemoration of the First Thanksgiving (a 17th-century feast between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans), it is now one of the major holidays and, for many of us, the official start of the Christmas season. There was no Black Friday or Cyber Monday during the 19th century. Instead, the Thanksgiving holidays were a time for family to gather together from near and far and share a holiday meal. This usually involved the women of...

  The past year and a half have been some of the shittiest in human existence. So there’s no better time to bring you a recipe for poop emoji cupcakes. This one comes from CAKEMOJI: Recipes & Ideas For Sweet-Talking Treats. No matter when you decide to make them, they'll always be  funny and cute, but sometimes they are also very, very appropriate.   So, make these cupcakes to help you get through some of the crappiest of days. They're good shit. Enjoy!   POOP EMOJI CUPCAKES   You will need:12 chocolate cupcakes One quantity...

Curries are the secret champions of flexible comfort food: a richly aromatic base that’s not exactly a soup or a stew, but still packed with bangin’ flavor that screams, “Yes, add that random ingredient, it will still taste amazing!” Even fruit. Virtually any tropical fruit is a winner in curry, but the fantastically fatty queen of them all, avocado, creates a delicious velvety base in this classic Thai green curry. Like anything made with fresh avocado, this curry should be consumed immediately. Avocado Green Curry Serves 2...

Photo courtesy Kat Craddock Did you know that many pizzerias are happy to sell you raw dough for home use? This clutch home-cooking shortcut has saved us loads of time and is endlessly versatile. Use it as a base for grilled pizzas, skillet naan, or these easy bakery-style calzones. They are delicious hot out of the oven or as the cornerstone of your next picnic lunch.Once you have the method down, try swapping out your favorite fillings. Calzones are a great way to use up small...

Anthony Bourdain has been a certified BUST crush for many years, and usually we are content to drool his delicious dishes on TV. But now, he has a new cookbook out, Appetites, that includes recipes that even those of us who are not so skilled in the kitchen can attempt and master. The cookbook contains recipes that Bourdain makes for his family: his wife is a professional martial artist, and they have a nine-year-old daughter. “Mostly, these recipes are direct lifts from imperfect memories of childhood...

Round up your besties for a night of frightfully delicious dishes! MEAT HEAD Ingredients1 plastic skull (ours is from amazon.com)½ pound prosciutto (the fattier the better because it helps the meat stick) DirectionsWash the skull with dish soap, rinse, and dry. Start by wrapping the inside of the jaw and underside of the skull in prosciutto; as you lay the meat down, smooth out any wrinkles. Try to overlap pieces and work with the natural curves of the skull. Once you have the underside done, flip the skull...

While movie theater cuisine is traditionally synonymous with buckets of buttery popcorn, overflowing glasses of Coca-Cola and super-sized candy portions, The Food Film Festival wants you to forget everything that you know about snacking at the cinema. The Film Food Festival is a “multisensory food and film experience” hosted at the AMC Empire 25 Theater in Times Square in New York from October 20-23. This event is comprised of four days of film-foodie action, in which attendees watch films about food while simultaneously having the opportunity...

Here at BUST, we love inspiring women, and we love cocktails, so what could be better than a project that combines the two? In the new book Drink Like A Woman, writer Jeanette Hurt and illustrator Paige Clark bring us cocktails inspired by great women both historical and fictional, including Frida Kahlo (Frida Kahlúa); Nellie Bly (Nellie Bly-Tai); Harriet Tubman (Tubmantini); Rosie the Riveter (Rosé the Riveter); Princess Leia (Kissed By A Wookie); and many, many more. We're excited to share three of those recipes with you...

Rolling In Dough THE WOMAN BEHIND NORTH CAROLINA’S SMOKE SIGNALS BAKERY SHARES HER FAMOUS PIZZA RECIPEPhoto Courtesy of Tara Jensen Tara Jensen recently posted a photo on Instagram (@bakerhands) of a beautifully charred crust topped with colorful veggies. The caption read: “Pizza is my boyfriend.” For the 34-year-old artist and baker, pizza has definitely been a community builder. When she decided to go full force into her baking career by moving to a compound in rural North Carolina and turning its wood-fired oven bakery into Smoke Signals,...

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine convinced me to try drinking kombucha in order to get some probiotics in my system during a particularly pesky bout of digestive struggles (I’ll spare you the details). She warned me that kombucha is an acquired taste, but told me to just grin and bear it at first until I could get used to it. I’ll admit that the first sip I took was a little weird, but by the time I finished the whole bottle...