5@5 is a daily, food-related list from chefs, writers, political pundits, musicians, actors, and all manner of opinionated people from around the globe.

With a brand spanking new personality spotlighted every day, you very well could've missed your favorite silver-haired French chef or wine-rapping captain, which is why we've compiled an inveritable smörgåsbord of some particularly notable ones for you to feast on for the first time or come back to for second helpings.
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Just in case you still have, like, eggnog to 'nog or plums to sugar before the second cousins twice removed arrive, consider us Santa's little helpers.

Here are a few instructional holiday posts we love that might have jingled right on by during the holiday hullabaloo.

• Sam Meyer is agog over homemade eggnog, and you can be too

• Peppermint bark 101

• Have yourself a very vintage holiday: Welsh pork cake

• Yule Glögg: holiday tradition in a glass

• How to make ice cream ... with snow!

• Four Loko holiday balls - you're too good of a person to make these

• Brining, smoking, rubbing and spatchcocking your turkey (we swear it's all totally legal)

• The TSA won't swipe your pie - but will they take your cake?

We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Monday. 'Til then, you can find us by the punch bowl.

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• Midway Thrills at N.C. State Fair

• Chilly weather means chili weather

• What’s your go-to hangover cure?

• The First Lady’s fall harvest

• Candy sales king-sized this Halloween

• Vanilla beans + vodka = homemade extract

• Five Misconceptions People Have About Chefs

• A wine awakening - part one and part two

And have you experienced the joy of 5@5 or the Lunchtime Poll? Grab a drink from our (open) bar and get reading.

We've been so egg-centric in our coverage this past week, it would be easy to think that's all we do, but we've got much more on our plates. Get to know us.

• Heirloom tomatoes – explained

• Dining and dating – the food of love

• Foodie friendships – the ties and fries and pies that bind

• A day two pigs would die – on ethical slaughter

• High above Manhattan, a vegetable garden grows

• Life as a cereal freak

• Collateral damage – nicks, cuts, burns and scars

• PB & J and me

• The joy of grilled cheese

And have you experienced the joy of 5@5 or the Lunchtime Poll? Grab a drink from our (open) bar and get reading.

We fly pretty fast and furious here. Here are a few posts we love that might have flapped right on by.

• Grilled cheese and...grape jelly?

• Bacon grease: The fountain of youth?

• 3.4 million years of meat and marrow meals

• In praise of country cookin'

• High above Manhattan, a vegetable garden grows

• Life as a cereal freak

• Collateral damage – nicks, cuts, burns and scars

We fly pretty fast and furious here. Here are a few posts we love that might have flapped right on by.

• Could you maintain a romantic relationship with someone who didn't care about food?

• Some diners are so picky, they're off the invite list.

• Some say a wedding is a bust if there's a cash bar. Others don't mine sipping soda all night.

• A Top Chef Masters judge comes clean about his fondness for Filet-O-Fish.

• Office coffee tweakers unite!

• Eat the same lunch every day? You're hardly alone.

• zOMG we saw Tony Bennett at dinner and Ruth Reichl at lunch!

We fly pretty fast and furious here. Here are a few posts we love that might have flapped right on by.

• Why you should always hire a cook with Waffle House on his or her résumé.

• Anthony Bourdain talks Beirut and family meals.

• Wherein Andrew Zimmern went for the full Bourdain.

• Filmmaker Joe York shares his five favorite food documentaries.

• Do you take home restaurant leftovers?

• Oh, PETA. Again with the nudity, blood and bombast.

• Lunch lies! Dinner deceits! Tasty truths!

• Mario Batali on the food of love.

• Customize your chocolate.

Hi there. We're Eatocracy. Snack on these recent stories and get to know us a little better.

• From the Farm through the White House Farmers Market to the Table
• Tipping points; on stiffing for poor service
• PB&J and me; in praise of a childhood favorite
• A day two pigs would die: ethical slaughter
• Foodie friendships: the ties, pies and fries that bind
• The case for eating insects
• Tom Colicchio talks childhood hunger and Gulf Coast seafood
• Kids and ads, a not so sweet combo, say feds
• The Picnic Poll – how the USA does summer
• Top Chefs talk Gulf seafood struggle
• Up your grilling game
• Plane fare – airline eats

We fly pretty fast and furious here. Here are a few posts we love that might have flapped right on by.

• No free lunches for school kids say some

• Have you ever left without tipping?

• Q & A: Tom Colicchio talks about Gulf seafood

• Who taught Mario Batali how to love food?

• A food love rooted in Ruth Reichl's writing

• Fat's role in the new Obama administration's food pyramid

• Kids and ads: a not so sweet combo

We fly pretty fast and furious here. Here are a few posts we love that might have flapped right on by.

• Got buttah? The lobster roll sans mayo (It's got a recipe, even!)

• Q & A: Tom Colicchio talks childhood hunger

• Indefensible food: Wine product

• The Picnic Poll: The results are in