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The 10 Best Pastry Blenders

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By Karen Resta Verified, Carrie Honaker Verified
| The Spruce Eats
Credit: The Spruce Eats / Amelia Manley This useful kitchen tool is known by three different names. The official name is “pastry blender,” for the job it was originally designed to perform. You may also hear it referred to as a “dough blender” or “pastry cutter.” What can a pastry blender do? It can cut butter into pastry dough, mix biscuits (like savory cheese and herb biscuits) or cookie dough, smash up ground beef in a hot pan, mash cooked potatoes, and even help make guacamole.
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We Found the 20 Best Chocolates for Valentine’s Day 2025

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By Karen Resta Verified, Edible Manhattan
| The Spruce Eats
The Spruce Eats / Amelia Manley Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays that demands chocolate. It can be a gesture of your love and appreciation for your special Valentine, or it can also be a reminder that you can indeed treat yourself to gourmet goodness. There’s such a wide variety of chocolate out there, and we've gathered some for every taste and every wallet. It’s the Day of Love, and we all should indulge in the very best way we can.
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11 Iconic, Diverse, Delicious Manhattan Restaurants Remain Fabulous, Even Though They’re 30 - 60 Years Old

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By Karen Resta Verified
| Edible Manhattan Verified
Everyone knows the restaurant business in Manhattan is brutal; the numbers prove it with as many as 80 percent of new city restaurants in failing within five years of opening. The places that manage to keep their doors open are exceptional. They’re not institutions by coincidence—they’ve had to be in order to survive, drawing visitors from all over the globe.
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