Happy Lunar New Year! Today marks the beginning of a new year in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean cultures. Will you be sitting down with family and friends for a celebratory meal? Here are 7 recipes to share with loved ones, fill your belly, make you smile, and bring you good luck. More

Chinese or Lunar New Year falls on this coming Monday, January 23rd. In honor of this very important holiday, Bee of the beautiful and delicious website Rasa Malaysia brings us a traditional recipe for hot and soothing soup. Welcome, Bee!

A traditional Chinese New Year meal is incomplete without dumplings and a dish of nourishing and soothing Chinese soup, hence I've combined the best of both worlds into this pork dumpling soup. This dish is a Cantonese delicacy and the dumplings are called "Siu Kow" in Cantonese, or literally "water dumplings." More

Tết, or Lunar New Year, is just around the corner, and for many Vietnamese this means getting together with family, wrapping sticky rice cakes the same way their ancestors have been doing for thousands of years, and telling stories about the ancient King Hùng Vương. More

It's been two weeks since we collectively rang in the New Year. Some of us rang it in big. Others stayed home and ordered pizza. Maybe you made resolutions to learn something new in the kitchen. Maybe you made resolutions to eat more simply. How's it going so far?

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Before we dive back into work and school, let's pour one last glass of eggnog and reminisce about our holiday cooking adventures. Did you host your family holiday dinner? How did it go? Did you try any new recipes on your day off? More

Champagne Bar for New Year's Eve: Three Bubbly Cocktails

Happy New Year's Eve! Do you have something special going on in the kitchen this weekend? A special dinner? A festive brunch? We'd love to hear about it. Enjoy your holiday weekend, and see you back here Tuesday for a fresh batch of brand new posts. Happy New Year's! More

Every holiday season we ask a few friends to join us here at The Kitchn for a series of guest posts. The topics range from favorite holiday recipes to family memories and traditions. Today's guest: Ilke of the lovely blog Ilke's Kitchen, writing about her family's New Year's Eve traditions of bingo, red underwear (indeed! read on and it will all become clear!) and a scrumptious rice pilaf. Welcome, Ilke!

Growing up in a Muslim family in Turkey, celebrating Christmas was not a regular thing for our December routine. There was no Santa to sit on his lap and tell our wishes, no cookie baking craziness all month long, no nonstop Christmas music on the radio. I don't think Santa tradition and trying to make kids behave with the Santa threat would be a long-lived one in Turkey anyway. More

Q: Now that it's the holiday season, many people will be traveling away from home to celebrate with family and friends.

How can someone plan ahead and maintain a diet of healthy foods if your travels send you to a food desert with nary a vegetable in sight?

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For weeks now, we've been talking non-stop about Christmas cookies, special meals for Christmas and Hannukah, edible gifts, and setting a festive holiday table. And now the holidays are actually here! What do you have planned? More

There is something about Champagne and sparkling wine that seems to automatically kick off a celebration. With the holiday season in full swing and New Year's parties around the corner I thought I would share some thoughts on the the key sparkling wine regions of the world, and the many different styles to choose from More