Author: Tiffany Vincent

Caroline Quentin has a genuinely surprising quality. Not the actress part, which was always clear from watching her compete with Neil Morrissey and Gary Stretch in six seasons of Men Behaving Badly as Dorothy, a character who was simultaneously warmly human and irritated. No, what’s surprising is what she’s changed into since then—more specifically, what she’s discreetly decided to leave behind. Quentin put a lot of her possessions up for auction two years ago. An important collection of artwork. Jewelry. Over several decades of a fulfilling and lucrative career, things accumulated. She currently resides in a rented home with her…

The problems started in the early 1980s, when Dolly was a huge star by all accounts. She was well-known outside of the country music industry thanks to the movie 9 to 5. The money was genuine. The celebrity was genuine. However, there was a cracking sound offstage. She had been disobeying the doctor’s advice, persevering through stomach issues and what turned out to be endometriosis, a painful condition in which uterine lining-like tissue grows where it shouldn’t. After collapsing on stage in Indianapolis in 1984, she was diagnosed, had surgery, and ultimately underwent a partial hysterectomy at the age of…

There’s a certain type of book that sits on kitchen counters without ever being put away. Spine outward, collecting dust, not arranged on a shelf with the others. Cookbooks written by Deliciously Ella are often dog-eared, covered in flour, and kept open by the stove. The answer reveals something intriguing about the direction food publishing has taken over the last ten years, so it’s worthwhile to find out why. Ella Mills’ love of food was not the reason she began cooking. She began because she was really, truly ill. She was diagnosed with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome in 2011 while studying…

One of America’s most popular cookbook authors didn’t start cooking until she was well into her thirties, which is an odd fact when you stop and think about it. During World War II, Julia Child worked as a copywriter in New York in her twenties and created shark repellent for the OSS in her early forties. The final sentence seems fictitious. It isn’t. And somehow, when you hold one of her cookbooks in your hands, none of it seems unimportant because they have the same quality that she seems to have brought to everything: a thorough, almost stubborn refusal to…

A man who could have stayed in a Michelin-starred kitchen in Europe but opted to cultivate his own vegetables on a windy island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is truly disarming. Prince Edward Island and Canadian culinary culture in general have changed since Michael Smith made that decision years ago. It’s difficult to get to his restaurant FireWorks, which is located inside The Inn at Bay Fortune. Driving along Route 310, you pass fields and historic farmhouses before the property opens up and you realize you’ve come to a place that takes itself seriously without being overly serious. Between…

Walking into a McDonald’s in late August and not seeing an orange-tinted cup with the words “Pumpkin Spice” anywhere in sight is a subtly unsettling experience. That cup was as dependable as the first cool breeze of the season for thirteen years—possibly more so, given that McDonald’s never lied and the weather often does. Up until now. The Pumpkin Spice Latte, which had become something of an unofficial seasonal mascot for millions of Americans, was officially discontinued by McDonald’s this fall. In August 2026, the chain announced that pumpkin spice would not be available in any of its fall beverage…

Seeing a chain of restaurants close its doors one city at a time has an almost cinematic quality. It’s not particularly dramatic; rather, it’s more akin to the mildly depressing feeling you get when you pass a closed storefront on a Friday night with the sign still up and the parking lot deserted. For the majority of 2026, Red Lobster has operated in that manner. One more month, several closures, and a press release about “thoughtful decisions” and “long-term growth.” Every time, the words are a little different. The result doesn’t. The figures present a clear picture. Before filing for…

A specific type of fast food announcement causes users to pause in the middle of their scroll. Not because it’s revolutionary. Not because it claims to alter people’s perceptions of chicken. However, it is precisely what it sounds like in the most unapologetic way imaginable. In Canada, KFC added orange-dusted fries, added Flamin’ Hot Cheetos to their chicken sandwich, and managed to persuade a beverage team to add Cheetos to a soda. And a lot of people are here for it. Canadians are currently enjoying this partnership between KFC and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, while American fans do what Americans do…

The kind of dedication that occurs before the cameras roll, when an actor is by themselves with a script and a choice that will alter their body for months, is one that most people never witness. That is a decision that Anna Maxwell Martin has made several times. And the outcomes have been subtly impressive in both directions. Motherland, the masterfully observed comedy about school-gate politics and parenting chaos, is how most people first learned about Martin. She was extremely slender on that show; one Mumsnet commenter mentioned being taken aback by her “washboard stomach” during a scene at the…

Every great athlete’s career has a turning point. Not because of a contract, a trade, or a championship, but rather because of something more subdued, intimate, and physical. For Luka Dončić, that moment appears to have arrived somewhere between a bicycle race through the streets of his hometown and the cobblestones of Ljubljana. Recently, images of the Lakers’ star player appeared to have changed significantly. Not merely trimmer, but completely changed. The kind of alteration that causes viewers to look at the picture twice before opening an older one for comparison. A strict gluten-free and low-sugar diet, two meals a…