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Written by Millie Gooch If we are to believe pop culture depictions, a gathering of women just isn’t complete without a bottle of wine or two. Here, Millie Gooch interrogates whether alcohol is necessary to forming and cementing female friendships. If you’ve ever read a think piece on Sex and the City then you’ll know

We’re a few short hours until we reach the finish line — of 2020 that is. “Rough year” would be a gross understatement and we’re currently gathering all the must-have items we need to celebrate the end of this year. One essential we’ll have with us at midnight? Booze. If you haven’t raided your local

Food and wine pairing seems like an almost untouchable art form. Only the excessively sophisticated know exactly which wine to pair with which dish, and only the real experts get it right every single time. The rest of us—the casual drinkers and the wine lovers, alike—are left feeling intimidated every time we look at a

If you’ve ever roamed the Aldi wine aisle — or any grocery store’s wine aisle, for that matter — and were left scratching your head, unsure of the perfect wine to purchase, with no store associate to help you, you aren’t alone. And Aldi is here to help with its free wine course. The “Aldiploma”

Woman, 25, whose arm went numb after a sip of wine discovers the tingling sensation was a side effect of stage four Hodgkin lymphoma Lauren Firenza noticed a tingling sensation at a family gathering in December  Biopsy revealed she had stage four Hodgkin Lymphoma in April She was given the all-clear in June after enduring

May we have your attention! Costco (the bulk grocery store that has gifted us with giant donuts, 7-pound Nutella tubs, and 300-bottle wine fridges) has done it again and pushed us into the future thanks to this glorious cheese flight. View this post on Instagram ?These #kirklandsignature #cheese flights are the best!! Now a new

All the women had to complete a food questionnaire at the start of the study listing how often they ate 136 different food items. Then they were split into three groups according to their intake of phenolic acids, with those with the highest consumers of hydroxycinnamic acids (a naturally occurring type of phenolic acid) having

Wine DOES get better (for you) with age: A glass a night is good for the elderly – but not for anyone else Drinking was found to offset the effects of certain age-related diseases including coronary heart disease, diabetes and dementia   Researchers found 60% of years of potential life lost were in the 20 to

It’s time to ditch that evening chamomile tea for a smooth Cabernet Sauvignon blend. Drinking two glasses of red wine before bed could actually help you lose weight, according to two new studies by Washington State and Harvard Medical School. Apparently, there’s a polyphenol called resveratrol in red wine that transforms ‘white fat’ into ‘beige fat’ (beige

What drinking TWO glasses of wine a day does to your heart: Shocking scans reveal how regular alcohol consumption can lead to an irregular heartbeat Alcohol can cause tissue damage and scarring which interrupt electrical signals These signals are vital for controlling and maintaining a regular heart rhythm People who have 14 alcoholic drinks per

The popular hot drink is sweet, tastes smells deliciously of spices and makes faster drunk than many people think. How quickly the mulled wine formula. With their help, you can roll over, whether or not it is roadworthy. How quickly mulled wine, the mulled wine formula. With it, you can on the basis of the

Busy Philipps isn’t one to keep her cards close to her chest. Philipps — the longtime BFF of actor Michelle Williams — dished to Parents magazine in her cover story for the November issue about motherhood, marriage and body image.  As usual, the always-candid Philipps didn’t hold back. She said she and husband Marc Silverstein

The Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning Hulu original, The Handmaid’s Tale, struck all the right chords with its latest season, hitting almost too close to home at times. And while the riveting season two finale that recently aired has earned praise, the show’s marketing efforts was hit with swift backlash after attempting to release a

Keep calm, but a global wine shortage is looming.  Before you start freaking out and stocking up, this is why the shortage is occurring. Italy, France and Spain, countries that produce most of the world’s wine, have experienced extreme weather conditions which have lead to low harvests. The Organisation of Vine and Wine revealed that 2017 has been

Updated June 11, 2018, at 2:28 p.m. ET: The day we have all been waiting for is here. Sonic’s pickle slush is officially available to purchase at participating locations. Back in March, Sonic announced they would be releasing the briny beverage sometime in June. And on Friday, Sonic tweeted that the new beverage would be

McDonald’s is going to let you have it your way now too — in the form of self-serve kiosks at 1,000 locations nationwide. You’ve probably seen self-serve kiosks before, say, when you are checking in at the airport or out in the self-serve line at the supermarket. Now, you can order your Big Mac via

The day has finally come: It’s National Doughnut Day, y’all! And you know what that means — free doughnuts. But before we get into all the deals and specials, we have to talk about what Papa John’s is doing this glorious day. (Bet you weren’t expecting that, right? Us, either.) You may know the pizza

We may love to snack on giant hot dogs and pretzels when doing our shopping at Costco, but there’s a new healthy option coming to the menu that sounds pretty intriguing. Costco has been offering acai bowls on their menus in California, Oregon and Hawaii for quite a while — obviously, they had the audience

Eggs love to break rules, and that’s what makes them such a kitchen staple. Tell an egg it’s a breakfast food, and it will surprise you by finding its way onto the ingredient list of your next risotto recipe. It’s just how eggs roll — they’re that useful. As for health benefits, eggs make a

Avocado is having its moment and has been for a long time now — from avocado-based restaurants to avocado toast, we’re obsessed. Now, we have an avocado toast-inspired candy bar to add to the list. Los Angeles-based gourmet chocolatier Compartés has created an avocado toast-inspired chocolate bar, and it’s nothing short of brilliant. Many of