Making memories with food often happens by accident — it’s woven into the everyday, like the lacy crêpes my dad loved to serve on weekends or the sucre à la crème my grandma made every time she ...

Food-related words including fluffernutter, air fryer and ghost kitchen were included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2021. (Jade Cuevas / Los Angeles Times) Fluffernutter: a sandwich made with ...

Back-to-school season for the kiddos is officially here, which means parents and guardians everywhere are once again asking the age-old question: what’s for lunch? Sure, peanut butter and jelly is the ...

Fluffernutter: a sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow crème between two slices of white sandwich bread. If you’re from the Northeast, you may be familiar with the sweet "delicacy" known as ...

But the word fluffernutter didn’t officially enter the Merriam-Webster dictionary until October, along with 455 other new words. New words often reflect the big stories of the year or notable changes ...