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How "SORTED Food" Became The Internet's Favourite Cookery Show

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The short story is you pick up over a million YouTube subscribers by cooking some absolutely amazing food, but there’s more to it than that.

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I think there's something there that's quite relatable about a bunch of mates cooking together, plus we look at food from a very casual angle and try not to patronise or talk down to anyone like a standard chef on TV would, which I think really helps.


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15 Popular Song Lyrics Everyone Misheard In 2014

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“Got a lot of Starbucks lovers.”

Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”

Ed Sheeran, “Thinking Out Loud”

Actual lyric: "Take me into your loving arms."

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Hear it for yourself:

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Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”

Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”

Actual lyric: “Got a long list of ex-lovers.”

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Shoutout to Starbucks?

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13 Celebrity #TBT Photos You May Have Missed This Week

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D.J. Tanner and Urkel hanging out together kicks off this week’s #Throwback Thursday.

Candace Cameron (aka D.J. Tanner) shared this photo of the time Jaleel White (aka Steve Mother F’ing Urkel) tried to hold her hand.

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Taylor Swift reminded us that she has been, according to her, "Plotting, planning, HUSTLING since 1989."

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A 7-year-old Kim Kardashian looked super cute with a giant bow on her head.

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Alicia Keys took us back to 1992, when she got what she really wanted for Christmas: New roller skates.

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27 Times Nick Jonas Made Us The Thirstiest In 2014

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He gave us all a “Joner” more than once, that’s for sure.

First, bump the Tinashe remix of "Jealous" to set the appropriate mood aka SEXYTIME.

2014 was truly a #blessed one for the members of #TeamThirst, because the slab of grade-A beef that is Nick Jonas decided the less clothes, the better.

Whoever got Nick to take his pants off for this photo shoot deserves a Nobel Prize. All of the Nobel Prizes, in fact.

Whoever got Nick to take his pants off for this photo shoot deserves a Nobel Prize. All of the Nobel Prizes, in fact.

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Which Lion From "The Lion King" Movies Are You?

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*Cue ambiguous wisdom about life from Rafiki*

19 Snapchats From Santa Claus

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But first, let me take an elfie.

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Jarry Lee / BuzzFeed

Jarry Lee / BuzzFeed

Jarry Lee / BuzzFeed


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Which Harry Potter Spell Are You?

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Let’s get Riddikulus.

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7 Other Emails Kim Kardashian Has Sent Her Mom


Weird Doctor Who Facts

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Geronimo! These Doctor Who facts are as weird as the Slitheen are ugly!

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17 Of The Most Leonardo DiCaprio Things That Leonardo DiCaprio Did In 2014

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~That so Leo~

Sipped wine on a yacht.

Sipped wine on a yacht.

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Sipped tea on a yacht.

Sipped tea on a yacht.

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Smoked an e-cig on a yacht.

Smoked an e-cig on a yacht.

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Walked off a yacht with these socks on.

Walked off a yacht with these socks on.

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Find Your Sunday Read In The BuzzReads Newsletter!

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The week’s best feature stories are just an email away.

Want to get a little more out of your Sunday mornings?

Want to get a little more out of your Sunday mornings?

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Finding something amazing to read can be as simple as signing up for BuzzReads. Every Sunday, you'll get a curated selection of the week's most talked-about feature stories from BuzzFeed News, magazines, newspapers and the web sent straight to your inbox: moving essays; powerful investigations; unexpected histories; haunting portraits; and much more.

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21 Writers Who Got It Right About New York City

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Before Jay Z, there was Jay D. (Joan Didion. Sorry.)

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"Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks."
-- Teju Cole, Open City

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"Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean "love" in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again."
-- Joan Didion, "Goodbye To All That"


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Emily Blunt Looks Back On A Decade Of Career-Defining Roles

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From The Devil Wears Prada to Into the Woods, the five-time Golden Globe nominee shares behind-the-scenes secrets from eight of her most beloved film roles with BuzzFeed News.

My Summer of Love (2004)

My Summer of Love (2004)

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Emily Blunt made her film debut in director Pawel Pawlikowski's powerful tale, co-starring Natalie Press, about two young women who find love and acceptance in one another's arms.

"That was not only my first film, but the process was so different than anything I'd experienced before, which was theater or television, where you're given your script and you show up and you hit your mark and you say your lines," Blunt told BuzzFeed News about the entirely improvised film.

"This was a great deal of responsibility on our shoulders to find these characters and find the scene. It was demanding and exhilarating, and I learned more on that film and from Pawel Pawlikowski about acting than I've learned from anybody else. He taught me so much about ambiguity and nuance and the power of suggestion and being courageous and having responsibility as an actor for creating your character. Just to sum it up in two words: It was terrifying and thrilling."

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

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Blunt received worldwide recognition and acclaim following her biting turn alongside Meryl Streep in the immensely popular adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name, in which she played Emily Charlton, the brusque assistant to Streep's terrorizing magazine editor Miranda Priestly.

"One of the producers on set kept saying, 'This is going to be big,' but I had no idea it would hit in the way that it did," Blunt said. "And that men would be dragged along by their wives, unwillingly, and then love it and go see it again and tell their friends. It was a movie that everybody loved and everybody saw, and so when that happens, your life — if you've previously been unknown — is going to change. And my life turned on a dime. I remember I used to go to this bakery in L.A. every day, and one day I went in and everything had changed because the movie came out."

And Devil viewers have a certain soft spot for Emily. "That character still gets quoted to me every single week," she said with appreciation. "Every week. 'Cube of cheese.' I know my demographic, it's very clear to me. I see them coming and I go, 'I'm going to get recognized.'"

After the film's release — and Blunt's Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture — offers flooded in, but the bulk of them revealed how narrow-minded Hollywood can be when it comes to emerging talent.

"I got offered every bitch on the planet," she said, with a laugh. "I really was trying to turn down every acerbic British person that I got offered after that movie came out. I just had to be careful. What I tried to do, really, was stand by the choices that I had made beforehand. I wanted to do different work, I want to do character work, I don't want to be an ingenue, I don't just want to do one thing."


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$1 Billion Later, It's Unclear If U.S. Cash Is Really Helping Afghan Women

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An audit says it’s too hard to know if American money is having an impact.

Prisoners attend an English language class at a prison for women in Herat, western Afghanistan in December 2013.

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The U.S. government has spent roughly $1 billion in two years to improve the lives of women in Afghanistan, but a new audit says there's no clear link between that spending and improvements in Afghan women's lives.

The Department of Defense (DoD), the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) "do not clearly demonstrate the outcomes of U.S. efforts or the link between those efforts and reported improvements made in the lives and treatment of Afghan women," the 50-page audit, released on Thursday, says.

"We acknowledge that doing impact assessment is not easy," John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, told BuzzFeed News. "But if you're going to be spending billions in taxpayer dollars, you need to be able to show a return on investment."

The office of the Special Investigator for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reviewed internal data and public reports detailing spending on women's programming by DoD, the State Department and USAID from 2011-2013. DoD spent nearly $5 million on women in the two-year period covered by the audit, while State spent nearly $62 million and USAID spent $850 million.

But none of the agencies knew where, exactly, all that funding ended up. DoD's initial list of spending overlooked another $5 million the department spent building a center for women's economic empowerment, and an unspecified amount spent on U.S. employees who serve as gender advisors to the Afghan interior ministry.

"With DoD, they couldn't identify everything they were doing, but for what they could identify, they could tell us exactly what they spent," Sopko said.

But USAID, in all 15 of the programs it claims benefitted Afghan women, couldn't explain how much was spent on women's issues, how many women benefited, or what the impact of the spending was, according to the audit.

That's largely because of a new, global approach at USAID and the State Department to spending money on women's issues. Instead of creating stand-alone programs to benefit women, the agency "integrates" or "mainstreams" women's issues into its broader programs. The idea is to make sure that general programming takes women's needs into consideration, even if a new project isn't specifically created for women.

But the audit found that USAID in Afghanistan couldn't evaluate how any of the "integrated" programs actually affect women's lives, nor could it separate out how much of those programs' budgets was actually spent on programming addressing women's needs.

"If you are going to identify these as programs for women, you should be able to tell us how much you're spending on that," Sopko said.

Without separating that funding, USAID "could exaggerate the amount of funding the agency actually spent on women's efforts," the audit said.

None of this was news to Samira Hamidi. Hamidi, the former director of the Afghan Women's Network, said she was not surprised by the audit.

"Not at all. I have been saying this since 2011 that the programs the U.S. government is designing and the money they are sending through USAID and other sources [is] not helping women rights in Afghanistan," Hamidi told BuzzFeed News by telephone from Kabul. "That's why I say I'm glad it's on the record….They don't care what people from the outside talk [say]. I really hope it makes a kind of difference, gives a different overview to the different US institutions who are aiming to support women for the future."

But Manizha Naderi, the executive director of Women for Afghan Women, felt differently. She has been working with the State Department directly since 2009. The department funds the women's shelters, family gathering centers and children's support centers that Women for Afghan Women runs. Naderi said her organization has always been subject to clear monitoring and evaluation.

"I can't speak for USAID because we haven't gotten USAID money," she said, but working with the State Department "is a different experience than what the SIGAR audit is saying."

In a statement emailed to BuzzFeed News, Larry Sampler, assistant to the administrator in the Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, said USAID "closely tracks" money integrated into general programs. Sampler's statement also said the agency tracks the impact of those funds. USAID declined to provide further details on either point.

"If this is your stated course of action, that you will be moving forward with mainstreaming gender as part of everything in the future," Sopko said, "you do need to have some kind of mechanism to ensure that those stated goals for women are in fact being addressed."

A letter from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, issued in reply to and published with the audit, detailed many general improvements for women in Afghanistan, including school enrollments, healthcare improvements, the creation of a network of domestic violence shelters, and funding for women-owned businesses.
But the auditors found no evidence linking those improvements directly to U.S. spending and, in several places, called reports claiming to make links "anecdotal."

"There is no clear indication of the source or reliability of many of the statistics cited by State and USAID, or that the improvements cited were the result of the hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars spent on programs intended to benefit Afghan women," the audit said.


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The Yankees Will Pay For The Education Of A Slain NYPD Cop's Children

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A program set up by former Yankee owner George Steinbrenner pays for children of police officers killed in the line of duty to attend college.

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Decades ago, former Yankee owner George Steinbrenner created the Yankee Silver Shield Foundation, which covers the cost of education for the children of police officers, firemen, and Port Authority employees who die in the line of duty.

The other officer killed, Wenjian Liu, was recently married and did not have any children.

Steinbrenner died in 2010, and his foundation is now run by his friend, former Olympian Jim Fuchs' daughter. It has paid for thousands of children to receive college educations in the tri-state area, and 700 children who lost a parent who in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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23 Actors To Watch In 2015

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Hollywood’s full of promising actors and actresses. Here’s 23 of them.

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Luke Evans

Luke Evans

Luke Evans is set to take over 2015 and possibly become Hollywood's go-to guy for action dramas. After starring in Dracula Untold, Evans now has The Crow, Free Fire, and High-Rise set to hit theaters next year.

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Adam Driver

Adam Driver

Our favorite boy on Girls, Adam Driver, already has us amped to see what he'll bring to the J.J. Abrams' Star Wars reboot, and we're excited to see what's in store for his relationship with Hannah on the upcoming season of Girls. The buzz around him is almost deafening.

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Ezra Miller

Ezra Miller

Ezra Miller made headlines and history this year when he became the first out queer actor to be cast as the lead character in a major superhero feature film. Miller stole the show in the Perks Of Being A Wallflower and held his own when he starred in We Need To Talk About Kevin. It seems that there's really nothing Miller can't do.

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The 22 Most Hilariously Awkward Christmas Autocorrect Fails Ever

Shiloh Rocks A Suit Better Than Brad Pitt

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So much style.

If you want to know how to rock menswear to the fullest...

If you want to know how to rock menswear to the fullest...

You might want to ignore Brad. And pay attention to Shiloh—who prefers to be called John, according to a recent interview with Brad Pitt.

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This is John owning the menswear game.

This is John owning the menswear game.

John dominated this week's Los Angeles premiere of "Unbroken" at the TCL Chinese Theatre.

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Brad has tried to nail down his menswear look for years.

Brad has tried to nail down his menswear look for years.

Like when he had a thing for velour jackets.

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John figured it out before turning 9 years old.

John figured it out before turning 9 years old.

And can hold it down next to big brother, Maddox.

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28 Things You Need To Know About Robbie Rogers

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Fresh off of an MLS Cup win and the release of his new book Coming Out to Play, the soccer star visited BuzzFeed to talk fashion, ping-pong, and more!

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1. Even though he wrote a long public coming-out letter and now a book, he still considers one of his greatest weaknesses to be writing. "I have no confidence in myself as a writer," he said.

2. But he considers his greatest strength to be "the personal side of business" and building relationships. "I've learned that I'm OK at that."

3. The feeling of coming out to his family "was definitely better than anything I've had in my career."

4. But winning the MLS Cup earlier this month with the Los Angeles Galaxy was a career highlight and "felt like everything [was] coming together in life," Rogers said.

5. Rogers had won the championship with the Columbus Crew prior to coming out — in the same stadium, nonetheless — but this time, he said it was totally different. "I was able to celebrate, and cry, and laugh, and be happy with my family, and know exactly who I am, what I've gone through."

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6. Before writing Coming Out to Play, Rogers said the longest thing he's ever written was a 10-page paper his freshman year at the University of Maryland.

7. His inspiration for writing the book was the reaction to his coming-out letter and "figuring out that I'm not the only gay person in the world, and a lot of people struggle with this stuff."

8. Writing the book was "like a breakup," Rogers said. "I learned a lot about myself while I was writing it ... you learn a lot of things."

9. The response has been the best part of writing. "Never in a million years did I think I was going to save someone's life by selfishly coming out to my family," Rogers said.


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17 Of The Most Beautiful Travel Destinations Of 2014

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