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We started our Great Minds Eat Alike series in order to mix up the usual BGSK offerings with interviews and submissions by cooks and eaters whose mentality towards cooking and eating meshes with ours. Today we are incredibly excited to bring you College and Stephania, the founders of Thursday Night Dinner, a site dedicated to getting together with your friends, cooking, crafting, and having fun. All things we can get behind!

We’ve long been admirers of Thursdays, since you know from our Mag Club tradition that we adore the promise of a good dinner party or potluck with our …

We started our Great Minds Eat Alike series in order to mix up the usual BGSK offerings with interviews and submissions by cooks and eaters whose mentality towards cooking and eating meshes with ours. Today we are incredibly excited to bring you a fabulous, informative guide on how to host a wine and cheese party from Maris Callahan, blogger behind In Good Taste. Maris is also a freelance PR gal and writer, and you can see all her work here.

As it turns out, Maris’s goals on In Good Taste are pretty similar to ours here on BGSK. …

Don’t worry-neither of us is tying the knot just yet! But that doesn’t mean that some of our friends and readers aren’t in the process of getting hitched. Today we’re happy to bring you a guest guide from a contributor who’s wise beyond her years. Alexia, a writer at Small Kitchen College, is a recent grad and newlywed (!) living in Lancaster, PA, who planned and executed a foodie wedding without somehow gouging her bank account. Her tips on getting the food right-on a budget-are priceless. Eat, drink, and dance the night away!

-Cara & Phoebe, THE QUARTER-LIFE …

We started our Dude Food series this spring in order to mix up the usual BGSK offerings with interviews and submissions for and by dudes. As you can image, having “big girls” in our name has been a bit of a deterrent for the male population. We like to think of this section as the man cave below the BGSK kitchen. If you have ideas, become a dude food contributor!

Food Republic is not too old but already it’s become the go-to food site for guys on the net. Its daily articles, recipes, and news pieces explore the new …

We started our Great Minds Eat Alike series in order to mix up the usual BGSK offerings with interviews and submissions by cooks and eaters whose mentality towards cooking and eating meshes with ours. Today we are incredibly excited to bring you a great guide and a delicious recipe from a fellow quarter-life blogger, N.

N. used to write a blog with the tagline, “making my world healthier, happier, and more free through food,” we knew we’d like her from the first moment she got in touch. Her idea is to chronicle the balance of a professional career, with an …

We started our Great Minds Eat Alike series in order to mix up the usual BGSK offerings with interviews and submissions by cooks and eaters whose mentality towards cooking and eating meshes with ours. Today we are excited to bring you a great travel eating tips from someone who knows what it’s like to try to eat well when you’re far, far away from your kitchen. Whether you’re traveling for business or pleasure this summer, Dasha’s tips will serve you well in making the most of your time away. Don’t forget to send your stove a postcard!

Dasha Barannik is …

Ahh, summer! Nary a warm breeze wafted o’er my sunkissed cheeks before I thought: man, I could really use a beer right now. In the colder months, I like to sip red wine with my dinner, or treat myself to an olive-y martini. But something about the impending heat (and boy, are New York Summers brutal) puts me in the mood for a cold, crisp beer.

With the hundreds of breweries turning out seasonal ales-local and foreign, micro and macro, cheap and expensive, other adjectives only the beer geeks know-how’s a girl to choose her signature summer ale? Fear not! …