💬 Quoted…​​ “All of your other piddly recipes are just David in the face of beef stew. It keeps trucking.”

The most popular recipe in the New York Times Cooking database – containing thousands of what it calls the best recipes in the world – is old-fashioned beef stew. And it’s not just a flash in the pan: it's held the title for decades now, and like LeBron is still putting up big numbers.

• The recipe, which carries an average rating of five stars, has been viewed more than 24 million times over the past three years.

✈️ Number of the Day: A United Airlines flight from Hawaii to San Francisco came within 800 feet of crashing into the Pacific Ocean in December; the previously unreported incident was revealed on Sunday by airline industry publication The Air Current.

🤯 Did You Know?... There isn’t a special “queen bee egg”; bees can turn any normal worker egg into a new queen by feeding it a special diet called royal jelly.

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