The New York Times looks into the candy lobby's role in extending daylight saving time by a month. The lobby believed that the extra hour of trick-or-treating in daylight would increase candy sales and decrease child deaths....
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Instead of giving out Snickers bars and Hershey Kisses, why not pop edible candy scabs or poop-shaped chocolate into your trick-or-treaters' bags? Check out Wired's list of the creepiest, craziest Halloween candies for more ideas. Kids will eat anything!...
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Candyfreak author Steve Almond analyzes your candy-giver personality at the Washington Post. For example, he labels those who give out candy corn as, "Purely deluded people. They don't get that candy shouldn't attempt to imitate other food groups, particularly corn."...
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The New York Times has some good reading in the dining section today: Bottoms up! A quick history of Jerry Thomas, innovating showman bartender of the 1800s. Chefs on their favorite H'ween candy: What they're giving out, what they hoped for as kids, what fantasy treat they'd make. New Orleans chef John Besh profiled: A great backgrounder if you only know him from Next Iron Chef. Seems like a good guy. The Pour explores Portuguese Douro reds: What port would taste like if not fortified and left sweet. Make Roasted Marrow Bones à la Fergus Henderson: Mark "Minimalist" Bittman tells you how. Wegman's sets farmed shrimp standards: It will be the first supermarket chain to adopt environmental and health standards....
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At Halloween, I developed a candy hierarchy, along with an elaborate trading scheme in which I would try to pawn off the candies I couldn't stand to unsuspecting friends and neighbors in exchange for a candy bar. Those trades were built around an exchange of quantity for quality.
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Not Martha shows you how to make crawly spider cakes for Halloween using various kinds of Pocky, snack cakes, sugar eyes and chocolate sprinkles. Spiders will never again look as freakishly adorable or taste as sweet....
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Learn how to make a bacon costume. All you need is foam, some big plastic bags, stick pins, spray paint in various baconesque colors, a hot-glue gun, Velcro fastener tape, and a burning love for bacon. [via Make]...
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The above video from About.com shows you how to carve a pumpkin in just three minutes! ...I mean, the video is three minutes long. It'll probably take you longer than that unless you have an electric saw. Whatever you do, don't hack it with a sword. Carving a pumpkin is easy, results in a nice decoration, and is a good way to get our your aggressions if you want to stab something. Check out these links for pumpkin carving tips, stencils and inspiration: Pumpkin Carving 101Pumpkin Carving Tips - How to Carve a Pumpkin for a Jack-O'-Lantern Howstuffworks - How to Carve a PumpkinHow to Carve a Pumpkin VideoExtreme Pumpkins (How-to, gallery)Pumpkin Way (Gallery)The Pumpkin Wizard (Gallery, patterns)Pumpkin Carving...
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Lately I've noticed Halloween-themed cupcakes popping up at bakeries and grocery stores, but none of them look as cool or creepy as Nicole Weston's vampire cupcakes. They pulsate with the sugary goodness of cherry pie filling blood!...
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Suicide Food points out the unsettling side of Martha Stewart's baby Halloween costumes that turn your helpless bundle of joy into a roast turkey or lobster: "You are pretending for your baby, imagining she is food, meat, a dead and cooked animal." Perhaps slightly less gruesome: a salad or a pie....
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