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Give your mother the gift of cocktail options as you prepare her special brunchWith Mother's Day fast approaching, a family brunch must be on the horizon. Whether that brunch is a breakfast in bed or an afternoon spent with your siblings in the kitchen making a special spread for your mom, brunch on Mother's Day is always a great idea.

As we've covered a ton of brunch favorites in the past - like eggs Benedict, grilled cheese, and pancakes - we're focusing on one cocktail that makes an appearance on most brunch menus due to its popularity and serious kick: the Bloody Mary.

How to Make the Perfect Bloody Mary

Sure, we'll settle for the always-loved classic, but mom deserves options, doesn't she? Renaissance Hotels, the Marriott lifestyle hotel brand, has partnered with Iron Chef Jose Garces (whose restaurant Mercat a la Planxa is located at the Blackstone Renaissance in Chicago) to create a Bloody Mary menu exclusively for Mother's Day.

Each drink is representative of a global city through its ingredients and garnishes. Basically, you'll never look at your

Where would we all be without moms? Definitely not here on this planet. For all the hard-working moms out there who secretly wish that someone would just spoil them for a change, we've come up with seven fantastic Mother's Day recipes for breakfast in bed well in advance of the holiday. So that the appropriate parties can do some planning - hint, hint.

We've compiled some of our best breakfast recipes. Some put inspired twists on classics, whether it's a tweaked technique, an unusual ingredient, or novel ways of combining favorite dishes.


Credit: Cooking LightEggs Benedict Waffle
An exercise in contradiction? Nope. This is, quite simply, the recipe for people who just can't decide what to make.

Click here to see the Eggs Benedict Waffle Recipe.








Credit: Jacqui MelvilleNettle and Sorrel Soufflé Omelette with Feta
This recipe is for the more ambitious readers out there. Matt Wilkinson, an Australian chef based in Melbourne and author of Mr. Wilkinson's Vegetables, had this on the menu of his flagship restaurant, Pope Joan, for

These dishes redefine the meaning of brunchBrunch is one of America's guiltiest pleasures. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends, people spend their time piling into restaurants and waiting in line to indulge in over-the-top cocktails and overly filling entrées. With an abundance of booze and a variety of eclectic dishes, brunch can be the staple that holds our Sunday mornings together or the boozy party that makes our Saturdays worth it.


Considering the fact that brunch is a largely American fad, it may come as a surprise to learn that the concept was actually invented in England. British writer Guy Beringer thought of the idea in 1895 when he propositioned it in his essay "Brunch: A Plea." Tired of the post-church dinners filled with heavy meats and filling pies, Beringer believed that brunch, a breakfast-inspired meal between breakfast and lunch, seemed like the best alternative. He gave no specific menu requirements, except that brunch should be "cheerful, sociable, and inciting" with "everything good, plenty of it, variety,

Even the priciest chains offer deep discountsAhh, happy hour. That brief, shining window, generally during weekday afternoons, when bars roll back drink prices in an effort to lure in those who are able to take advantage of the free time and low prices. But while bars are still great sources of happy hours, plenty of restaurants are offering happy hours, too. And not just on drinks; they're knocking back prices on food as well. In fact, some of the country's best-known, and most expensive, chain restaurants offer little-known menus featuring incredibly inexpensive food and drink specials. You just need to know where to go and when to go. And that's what we're here for.

America's Best Cities for Happy Hour

Happy hour itself is nothing new, obviously. Bars have been offering cheap snacks and discounted drinks to lure in patrons during off-hours as far back as anyone can remember (or not remember, as the case may be). But restaurants, especially the large chains, offering a happy hour is a slightly newer development, and one that a

Here are some malts and milkshakes recipes you'll loveIs there any drink more iconic than the milkshake? It's hard to argue against it. Now that the soda fountains of the 20th century are roaring back into style, we can't get enough of a good milkshake or malt.

The first milkshake was reportedly made by a Walgreens employee, Ivar "Pop" Coulson. He updated the pharmacy's "chocolate malt beverage" by adding a scoop of ice cream, and the lives of ice cream lovers, sweet tooths, and soda fountains were forever changed. Heck, the blender was invented in 1922 by Stephen Poplawski just to mix up milkshakes - who knew?

Check out America's Best Milkshakes

Now, milkshakes are getting the culinary treatment just like your cocktails, lemonades, and juices. You'll never go wrong with a chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry milkshake from the soda fountain heyday, but now we're finding just as many imaginative flavors, like peanut butter and jelly, watermelon and lime, and salted caramel.

Leading the way? Autumn Martin at Seattle's Hot Cakes Molten

Major fast-food chains have global reach, and in most cases they tailor their menus to incorporate local tastes and cultures. In Japan, for example, Burger King sells a Premium Black Kuro Burger with squid ink-flavored ketchup, and in India, where a large percentage of the population doesn't eat beef, McDonald's sells the Maharaja Mac, which replaces the beef patties with chicken.

The World's Top 10 Coolest McDonald's

And while it makes perfect sense to sell sandwiches and burgers tailored to the local audience, it might not be obvious that desserts also get the global treatment. In honor of National Pie Day, we're taking a look at five of the craziest McDonald's pies from around the world.

The World's Strangest McDonald's Commercials

For our list, we chose the ones that are legitimately flabbergasting. Who would have thought that in Japan pies would be filled with mashed potatoes and bacon? That's certainly bridging the snack/dessert divide. And while cherry, chocolate, lemon,

Facts and recipes that will motivate you to eat more fishIt's almost beach season, that means eating healthier. It's not rocket science, and yet so many people struggle with finding a way to eat better. To help you improve your diet, we're giving you a few reasons that'll make it easy, and more delicious, to follow through with your goals, and it's all about fish.

Sure, we've always known about the positive connotations that go along with eating fish. The protein-heavy meat has less calories than beef and chicken; it's rich in omega-3 fatty acids, calcium, and vitamin D and B2; and it's full of healthy minerals such as iron and magnesium. Along with the immediate health benefits of eating fish, it's also known for preventing a long list of diseases, making the consumption of fish well worth your time.

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So we're giving you seven reasons why you should be eating fish, and just to get your taste buds singing, we're sharing seven delicious recipes from Fornelletto Cucina & Wine Bar in Atlantic City, N.J.

Ellen SilvermanThere's something missing in your cooking, and if we were to take a wild guess, we'd say it was sauces. For those of you who have dreamt of going to culinary school but just never took the plunge, here's something you would've learned while there: how to make the mother sauces, and why they're essential to your cooking.

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A lot of people don't know the term "mother sauces," but it refers to the five basic and essential sauces that all other sauces stem from. They're the building blocks of what every young chef is taught during their training, because if you know the mother sauces, you know the foundations of pretty much any other sauce out there (the technical term for those other sauces are "small sauces").

7 Reasons Why You Should Eat More Fish

Times are changing, though. If you asked a traditional French chef what the five mother sauces are, he'd give you a traditional list (and maybe a few additional ones), but if you turned to a more modern