We’re all sick of boring travel advice, right? “Don’t just go to the big chain restaurants you have at home,” and “Explore the city and find out where the locals eat” are well-worn lines. So you’re saying I shouldn’t just eat at McDonald’s the whole time I’m in Paris? Gee, thanks! You sure saved my vacation.

Giada De Laurentiis is one of the most famous Italian food experts in the United States. She was born in Italy, her family lives there, and she gets to go to Italy a lot. She goes to all the big cities and famous places, of course. She says she loves pizza bianco in Rome and the gelato in Florence.

Everyone knows that the best place to eat in the Hamptons would be at Ina Garten’s house, where we could look through her pantry for things like locally raised honey. But if you’re still waiting for your invitation to one of her famous parties — I assume the post office lost mine somewhere, like my Hogwarts letter — the next best thing to do is to shop at Ina’s favorite places.

Nigella Lawson just came back from Australia with a new obsession for finger limes, which she called “the future.” Considering that any time she puts on a new robe or uses a new mixer it sells out instantly, she’s probably right about the tiny Australian citrus fruits, too.

Yesterday was Oprah’s birthday. The entrepreneur, business mogul, TV host, and selector of the world’s Favorite Things turned 64. To celebrate, Oprah ate what she says is her favorite meal, and she posted a video of it to Instagram so we could all live vicariously through her birthday meal. It sounds super delicious.

Ina and Jeffrey Garten are the embodiment of #CoupleGoals. They’ve been married since 1968, and in December they’ll celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Somehow, after being married nearly half a century, they still seem to be as ridiculously in love with each other as a pair of 20-something newlyweds. They make eyes at each other at red carpet events, drink wine on the sofa, and generally just adore spending time in each other’s company.

There’s nothing quite like being massively pregnant and waking up in the middle of the night with an overwhelming desire to eat something really weird. Pickles and ice cream might be the most traditional pregnancy cravings, but Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines uses her pickles to age copper and apparently wakes up at night with an overwhelming desire to eat a smorgasbord of Fruity Pebbles and pimento cheese.

When I hear about a movie star selling Girl Scout cookies, the first thing that comes to mind is Shelley Long as the mink-wearing troop leader Phyllis Nefler in Troop Beverly Hills.

If anyone knows anything about nerves, it’s Chloe Kim. Just yesterday the 17-year-old snowboarder was standing on top of a mountain in Pyeongchang waiting to compete in the women’s halfpipe at the Winter Olympics for the first time, wracked with nerves and wishing she’d finished her breakfast sandwich.

Giada De Laurentiis loves foods that make holidays special. Every year at Christmas she makes the same Italian struffoli she learned to make as a child. And in a recent interview with Wonderwall, De Laurentiis revealed that she always makes the same Valentine’s Day meal every year: heart-shaped ravioli. De Laurentiis is a master of Italian cooking. In fact, she was the go-to expert Prince William called when he tried to make lasagna to impress Kate Middleton and failed royally.

Valentine’s Day is Ina Garten’s day. She seems to live her whole life in a state of romantic bliss, as “twitterpated” as all the animals in Bambi when they wake up in spring and suddenly fall in love with each other. Ina and her husband, Jeffrey, have been married 49 years and they still seem overwhelmed with glee to have found each other. So if there’s anybody I’d trust as an expert on romance, it’s Ina.

In the process of planning her new hotel, the Boarding House, Ree Drummond has been thinking back on what she likes to do in hotels, and what she likes to experience when she travels. Appropriately enough for a Food Network star, Drummond says one of the first things she does in a hotel room is check out the mini bar. “When I travel here and there, I like checking into my hotel room and nestling in (and, figuratively, sucking my thumb.

After months of anticipation, Chip and Joanna Gaines have finally opened their new restaurant, Magnolia Table, in Waco, Texas. According to Country Living, Magnolia Table finally opened its doors this weekend, and you’d know it was Joanna Gaines’ design even if the menu didn’t have the Gaines family’s name all over it. The dining room is all white with extremely high ceilings decorated with the thick wood beams Joanna loves using in so many of her designs on Fixer Upper.

In the past 12 years, The Pioneer Woman has built an empire on cooking and writing about food in the most relatable way. During that time her fans have watched her children turn from cute little kids to full-grown teenagers who do things like walk through the door with 12 hungry friends 10 minutes before lunch.

People have very strong feelings about breakfast cereal. Breakfast cereals — especially the sugary ones — are commonly associated with childhood, so a favorite brand inspires feelings of intense loyalty and nostalgia. And finding out someone loves the same breakfast cereal can inspire instant camaraderie.

Jeff Goldblum is a national treasure. If you’ve ever fantasized about him cooking you dinner, you’re about to have a very good day, because he just teamed up with Funny or Die to make a video about food. Jeff Goldblum can’t cook, but it doesn’t matter, because I’ve been waiting my whole life to hear him roll the “r” in “rigatoni.” The video starts with Goldblum playing the piano and singing in a leather jacket.

If you want a pie that makes people say, “Whoa! How on Earth did they do that?” then you need to check out Pies Are Awesome on Instagram. They just posted a lemon pie that glows in the dark like something out of Tron and it’s totally blowing my mind. This might be the nerdiest pie I have ever seen, and I am completely in love with it.

Have you ever found an old photo of yourself and thought, “Dang! I looked amazing!” Well, Martha Stewart just did, and she shared the totally rad 1980s flashback photo to Instagram. Martha Stewart has always been beautiful, of course. Before she became one of the world’s most successful businesswomen and entrepreneurs, she worked as a model in New York and Paris to help supplement her scholarship to Barnard College, where she studied history and architecture.

Ina and Jeffrey Garten are the ultimate in couple goals. They’ve been married 50 years and still seem as twitterpated as teenagers. They live together in what is basically a castle and just drink wine and eat delicious food and enjoy each other’s company. It’s a great setup, and Jeffrey loves everything Ina cooks — except for one thing. I would never have believed it, but even Ina is capable of cooking something that’s not delicious.

Nigella Lawson is not a chef — she’s a home cook who writes about food and cooking. And she wants others like her to stop describing themselves as “just” home cooks, and to stop comparing themselves to chefs because home cooking and restaurant cooking are different crafts, with their own different strengths, weaknesses, goals, and requirements. “All home cooks tend to have one major flaw. We don’t say ‘I’m a home cook.

When The Incredibles 2 comes out this June, it’s bringing along a little snack of a movie in the form of a 7-minute animated short called Bao, and it looks adorable. Bao is the story of a Chinese-Canadian mom with no kids at home anymore, who gets another chance with a new baby when one of her homemade pork dumplings comes to life and turns into a cute little bun baby.

When you’re planning a birthday party for little kids, there has to be a cake. And there’s a whole lot of parental peer pressure involved in the type of cake you choose. You could show how much you care by baking your own cake, or you could buy a cake, which will make all the kids squeal with delight and shout, “I want a frosting rose!” Which will it be?

Watching Ina Garten on TV makes it look like a lot of fun to be Ina Garten, but it really looks like a lot of fun to live next door to Ina Garten. She is constantly entertaining. Watching her show, one gets the distinct impression that she throws a party every time someone comes through her front door. She seems like she’d arrange a quickie welcome luncheon if a squirrel entered her yard, and every person who jogs past her house gets a cosmo and a lobster roll.

If life were fair, all cars would come with those tinted, soundproof windows that separate limousine drivers from their passengers. Parents could get so much use out of those windows! Heck, my parents could have gotten use out of those windows, because I once kept a fight going for an entire ride to grandma’s house because my sister touched my armrest. And somehow we were worse when we were on the same side, like when we saw a Golden Arches and teamed up to chant “McDonald’s!

I am convinced that Ina Garten is teasing us, because she must know her fans well enough by this point to understand that she can’t post a photo of her pantry on Twitter without us zooming in obsessively to pore over every specific product she keeps in stock. But that’s exactly what she did this afternoon when she posted an innocent photo of her enviably well-stocked pantry during a bit of spring cleaning.