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Multiplatinum artist Kid Rock slammed television icon Oprah Winfrey on Saturday and called her a “fraud” after Winfrey endorsed the Pennsylvania Senate campaign of Democrat John Fetterman over his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom Winfrey has known and worked with for decades. “Oprah helped Dr. Oz with his career,” Kid Rock tweeted Saturday in a post that was retweeted over 10,000 times. “I assume because she vetted him and found him to be a wonderful person. Now she is against him. Oprah is a fraud. -Kid Rock.” Winfrey, a Democrat, announced on Thursday that she is supporting Fetterman’s Senate...

On October 12th, the menu spotlights National Gumbo Day for food holidays. This heavily seasoned, stew-like dish fills us up on chilly fall days. #NationalGumboDay Originating in southern Louisiana during the 18th century, Gumbo typically consists of strongly-flavored stock with meat or shellfish, a thickener, and seasoned vegetables. The seasoned vegetables may include celery, bell peppers, and onions. In Cajun cuisine, the trio is known as the “holy trinity.” Most people serve Gumbo over rice. Gumbo also falls into different categories based on the following types of thickener used: African vegetable okra Choctaw spice filé powder (dried and ground sassafras...

Oprah Winfrey is currently on her 2020 Vision speaking tour, stopping by the Forum arena in Los Angeles Saturday to discuss wellness and living a balanced life. Unfortunately for the media mogul, she quite literally lost her own balance while onstage, slipping and taking a pretty hard fall in front of hundreds of attendees.

<p>Sensing an opportunity to show that they can be just as angry about their classic dishes as Italians, Louisianians experienced a collective meltdown after a recipe video for “healthy” gumbo went viral. Posted by a Disney internet account, the offending video was perhaps meant to corrupt innocent youth as it attributed the recipe to Princess Tiana of the popular New Orleans–set The Princess and the Frog — giving it a veneer of legitimacy.</p>

A Georgia man says drug suppression officers mistook his okra plants for marijuana.

They're just all slimy and gross. I like most other veggies, but Brussells sprouts are disgusting.

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Would somebody please tell the hip-hop community to stop whining? Go drink some Cristal, buy some bling, pimp some hos or do whatever it is they do for amusement, but please, cease, desist, shut up already about how Oprah Winfrey has hurt their feelings. For those who came in late: Over the last month, a trio of rappers has leveled criticism at Winfrey for what they feel is her disrespect of their medium. The first blast came from a gentleman who calls himself Ludacris, but whose birth certificate identifies him as Christopher Brian Bridges. He said that when he appeared...

January 15, 2006 -- "There is truth, and that is all that matters." So goes the mantra - repeated every other page or so - in James Frey's best-selling, Oprah-touted memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," in which he portrays himself as a scum-of-the-earth, drug-dealing outlaw who finds redemption in a rehab clinic. But the scribe - who was exposed last week for exaggerating his criminal past - has in fact lived a privileged life. Born in Cleveland to a well-to-do family, he moved to St. Joseph, Mich., at age 12, when his father, Bob, was named assistant general counsel for...

October 21, 2005 Mitchell County- Joe Henry has worked in agriculture for decades. "I've been a pecan shaker, and then I've been a cotton picker, and then I've been a peanut shaker, and I've been a 'bacco cropper." He even grows a few vegetables in his yard from time to time, but never anything as special as his super-tall okra. "I didn't do nothing special to the okra, nothing but plant it, put a little fertilizer to it, come out every once in a while and look at it," Henry says. The 80 year old thought he'd just plant a...