Olive Garden is taking summer fun to the next level with pasta-shaped pool floats. The limited-edition inflatables look like giant fettuccine, rigatoni and tortelloni.

These ESSENCE Festival Of Culture 2025 Panels Are Designed to Change Your Life (and Career) From beauty bosses to AI experts, this year’s ESSENCE Fest panels are packed with game-changing insights.

This one-pot dish is inspired by the Italian pasta e fagioli, but sped up.

Poolside pizza pasta salad is my idea of summer entertaining This spicy pasta salad is just the thing to serve outside when you can’t get it together enough to host people in your house.

Think the ESSENCE Authors Stage is just for the quiet crowd? Think again. This is where words move the culture—and sometimes the crowd. Whether you're a lit lover, memoir junkie, or just here ...

Explore the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture® lineup with Babyface, Jill Scott, Patti LaBelle, Erykah Badu, and Master P’s final show.

With one last performance on deck, Master P is showing us how to turn hustle into a generational empire — and why the culture should be taking notes.

Here's a simple twist on an Italian classic that your family is sure to gobble down. Combine our Italian Style Smoked Sausage with Pasta Roni to create home-style flavors that are both fresh and ...

You can feel a certain energy in the air when a living legend is about to hit the stage, and at this year’s ESSENCE Festival of Culture ™ presented by Coca-Cola®, that moment belongs to Nas.