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These recipes are the best of the best of whatever burger recipe you're looking forSummer's almost here and that means it's time for some grilling. While there are so many different dishes to cook outdoors, there's one that wins the popularity contest year after year - yes, we're talking about big, fat, juicy burgers. If you're like us, then as soon as the charcoal's been lit and your apron's tied on, you're obsessing over what beef blend you're going to use, what cheese to top it with, and most importantly, what condiments you'll use to finish it off.

Because burgers evoke such crazy and obsessive reactions, we've decided to pay them the attention they deserve and compile a list of the 50 best burger recipes for you to try this summer. Whether you're a meat lover, a vegetarian, or an adventurous cook, we've searched high and low to round up the best burger recipes for you, and ranked them in terms of taste, technique, and ingenuity.

We've hand-picked recipes that come from all walks of culinary life - including cookbooks, professional chefs, and home cooks. There

The crew from What's Good at Trader Joe's? weighs in with new reviewsIf you love Trader Joe's - the colorful shirts, the name tags, the friendly atmosphere, all its quirky products - then you've probably done product recon on What's Good at Trader Joe's?, the four-member team review site that has been rating the store's best and worst products since August of 2010. Nathan Rodgers, his wife Sonia, and their friend Russ Shelly and his wife Sandy set out almost two years ago to review the cult grocer's some 4,500 products. They've been going at a pretty good clip, and with this installment of The Best and Worst Products at Trader Joe's are narrowing in on having reviewed 10 percent of its products (more than 275 reviews covering about 325 products). That's no joke.

The Best Drinks at Trader Joe's

While the reviewers are fans of Trader Joe's, they take reviewing seriously - their first review was even negative. Here's their process:
• They rate products on a scale of one to 10, 10 being the best.
• For any post, two people rate the product.
• Reviewers give

What were these people thinking?The image of a wedding cake is usually a towering creation covered in white curlicues of buttercream frosting, sugared flowers, and perhaps even white fondant spray-painted blue, a nod to the ocean for that seaside summer wedding. Not a cake topped with skeletons, skulls, zombies, and blood.

10 Insanely Expensive Wedding Cakes

One could say their wedding day is the first day of the beginning of their life. The person standing across from you at the altar is the one you're to spend the rest of your life with, through sickness and health. Yet some still choose to celebrate the day with a design that suggests otherwise. And no, we're not talking about the deer-hunt-gone-wrong cake toppers. (Feeling humorous? This might be a light addition to a shotgun wedding.) Rather, these are designs that, frankly, might have us waking in fits and starts all night long.

15 Over-the-Top Wedding Cakes

There is no shortage of creativity and talent here. Consider this fondant-covered cake that looks more

She's looking for a male 55 to 70 years old who will take her to Sushi Yasuda. You in?Come Friday night, as some of us are sitting in bed, drinking some red wine, and watching rom-coms, it'll be reassuring to us to know that multimillionaires are just like us.

12 Dinner Date Dealbreakers

Monday, domestic diva Martha Stewart told Matt Lauer that she was joining Match.com. "I'd like to have breakfast with somebody, I'd like to go to bed with somebody," she said. So what to do if you're up for bed and breakfast? Head on over to her profile, listed under The Good Long Life instead of her real name, since Sam Yagan, Match.com CEO, told her that her real name "would be distracting to those initial conversations you have where everyone is going to be about talking to Martha as opposed to really getting to know the person first."

What Does Your Coffee Order Say About You On a Date

So what's on her profile? Well Stewart is looking to "enhance [her] dating life" with someone who makes more than $150,000 a year (as she does) who "relishes adventure and new experiences... someone

Jim LoveIt takes a lot of imagination to make a salad interesting these days. Gone are the days when "rocket" was an "exotic" green and the only thing you would use kale for was lining the bottom of platters of shell-on shrimp and crab legs at the raw bar.

But more interesting isn't always better; think of all the salads that just had too many ingredients and too much going on. Were they interesting? Sure. Were they enjoyable eating experiences? Probably not.

That's why this week, we're considering the salad. Carefully. With respect, love, and attention. All of the recipes featured here can be made at home for about $27 or less, excluding the cost of small amounts of basic ingredients such as butter, oil, flour, sugar, salt, pepper, and other dried herbs and spices.

Will Budiaman

Arugula Salad with Radishes and Grilled Swordfish
This is a celebration of all things spring: spicy wild arugula, crisp radishes, and the return of grilling…

- Will Budiaman

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Get out of your chicken rut with these simple, flavorful recipesChicken - is there anything to say about it that hasn't already been said? Yes, it's a blank canvas that soaks up the flavors of whatever preparation you choose; yes, it's a great source of essential protein, iron, vitamins, and minerals; and yes, it's a relatively cheap source of protein. And no, nobody savvy orders it when dining out, unless it's something really special that you have no clue how to make yourself.

But when dining at home, chicken is definitely still on the table. In fact, it's probably already on the table, sitting there, steaming away, and you're eating whatever your usual chicken dish is because you just couldn't think of anything else to make.

To get you out of your chicken rut, then, we've come up with 15 great chicken recipes from our favorite cookbook authors, chefs, bloggers, and contributors. They span a range of cuisines from countries around the world - everything from the good ol' U.S. of A. to Morocco, Italy, and Thailand. There are recipes for people

No one likes feeling deceived by the food and drinks they buy at the store. But as recent cases might show, there are more than a few drinks in stores that aren't what they seem.

Check out The Most Misleading Beverage Labels

In recent history, it was orange juice, POM pomegranate juice, and coconut water that came under fire for misleading labels. And while orange juice may not be as pure as you might think, and POM won't fix all of your health problems, there are a few more offenders to add to the list of misleading labels.

Click here to see 8 'Healthy' Drinks That Are Actually Terrible for You

So what's a consumer to do? Read up on the latest drinks under fire for deceptive labeling, and learn what's really in your drink. At this rate, that tap water is looking might tasty.

Credit: Flickr/ youaremycookie"All Natural" Arizona Teas
All of those "natural" claims on the Arizona tea cans really put the company in hot water, when a class-action lawsuit was filed against the beverage-maker for its "natural" labels -

Mind-blowing in taste and flavor, the popular fast-food item is easy to make at homeNothing sums up the deliciousness of a Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme more concisely than the love letter to it on the daily humor website McSweeney's. All of the Crunchwrap's beauty is perfectly summarized in that piece: the convenience of not having to choose between a soft or crunchy tortilla, the patches of sour cream randomly placed throughout it, and a creamy, indulgent nacho cheese sauce that is the ying to the meat's yang. And it's all wrapped together in a soft tortilla shell that makes it easy to enjoy one-handed without making a mess.

Learn How to Make a Perfect Guacamole

As one of the most successful products in the history of fast food (until that Doritos Locos Tacos came around), the Crunchwrap Supreme is loved by many because of its south-of-the-border flavors and ingenuity in design. Because it's shaped like a hexagon, the idea of calling it a "Mexagon" was once thrown around, but in the end the three words that perfectly describe it became its name: it's got