Celebrity Gingerbread: Law and Order Edition

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You Can't Afford This Coffee Maker

The high-tech Clover, and two affordable alternatives. (By Louisa Chu)

How to Talk to Boring Relatives at Dinner

The experts of quality chat weigh in. (By Lessley Anderson)

White-Collar Moonshine

Urbanites flout federal law with their new favorite hobby: home distilling. (By Lessley Anderson)

Restaurant has great goi banh cuon, not so hot business practices. (By Meredith Arthur)

President Obama comes under fire for … wait for it … enjoying a beer at a basketball game. (By James Norton)

An offbeat German beer style gets a full taste-test in the most recent edition of Imbibe. (By James Norton)

A website tracks prisoners’ final repasts. (By Kara Zuaro)

Celery is banned at Chelsea matches, so you better bring some other sort of snack. (By Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic)

Classic dishes done right, and a wrap delight. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

An engagingly sugar-packed tribute to bowls of breakfast from days of yore. (By James Norton)

First Colony Collapse Disorder, now hive heists threaten honeybees and their keepers. (By Tea Austen Weaver)

A New York City court case explores the issues surrounding eating bushmeat. (By Miriam Wolf)

Renowned author and reporter David Halberstam has a mesmerizing piece in Gourmet titled “The Boys of Saigon.” (By James Norton)

The debate over California’s Proposition 2 to ban battery cages was already raging. And then Oprah did a show on it. (By Nicholas Day)