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Best Cookie in the World for 2026: Makroud el louse, Algeria 🇩🇿
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A traditional Algerian almond cookie shaped like a diamond, makroud el louse, has been ranked as the 2nd Best Cookie in the World 2025/26 on TasteAtlas.
It achieved an average rating of 4.27/5, based on verified user ratings counted only from users who have actually tried the dish. The ranking is powered by algorithms that filter out bots and nationalist voting brigades, ensuring pure democratic math: no jury, no magic.
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Best Cookie in the World for 2026: Makroud el louse, Algeria 🇩🇿
Full list: tasteatlas.com/best/foods-by-category
A traditional Algerian almond cookie shaped like a diamond, makroud el louse, has been ranked as the 2nd Best Cookie in the World 2025/26 on TasteAtlas.
It achieved an average rating of 4.27/5, based on verified user ratings counted only from users who have actually tried the dish. The ranking is powered by algorithms that filter out bots and nationalist voting brigades, ensuring pure democratic math: no jury, no magic.
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#3 Best Food Region to visit in 2026: Crete, Greece 🇬🇷
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Here's artist Pablo Picasso with his second wife, Jacqueline, and David Douglas Duncan, sitting in a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing in 1956.
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Schwerin Castle,
located in Schwerin, Germany, is one of the most beautiful and historically significant castles in Europe. The castle sits on an island in Lake Schwerin, giving it a fairytale-like setting surrounded by water, which adds to its charm.
It has been the residence of dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg for centuries and is often referred to as the "Neuschwanstein of the North" because of its picturesque appearance.
The castle was originally constructed in the 10th century, though much of its current form reflects 19th-century renovations in the Romantic historicism style. Its golden towers, intricate facades, and lush gardens make it a striking sight, especially when viewed from across the lake. Today, Schwerin Castle houses the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament and serves as a museum open to the public, where visitors can explore its richly decorated rooms and art collections.
The surrounding lake and parkland make it a perfect destination for a scenic and cultural experience.
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Fulani woman in Dalaba town, French Guinea, 1936.
She has a magnificent traditional hairstyle that denotes her social status among her people. She belonged to the royalty of the Fouta Imamate.
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On this day in 1978, the Gloria Gaynor single “I Will Survive” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #87 (December 16)
“First I was afraid, I was petrified….”
The song with the memorable opening line (and dramatic piano intro) has an interesting back story:
The main songwriter Dino Fekaris worked for Motown Records for seven years as a staff writer.
But he didn’t write this song there.
You see, Dino was fired from Motown, and it was his dismissal from the music production giants that provided the inspiration for “I Will Survive”.
The story goes that depressed and jobless, Dino turned on the tv, and the theme song he had written for a movie happened to be playing.
He took it as a good omen, and jumped up and down on the bed saying, "I'm going to make it. I'm going to be a songwriter. I will survive!".
Fekaris teamed up with his collaborator Freddie Perren, another former member of the Motown production team, to write the song; however, the song remained unrecorded for two years as no suitable singer was available.
Later, in 1978, Perrin was asked to produce "Subsitute" for Gloria Gaynor, which he agreed on the understanding that he could also produce the B side.
When Gaynor was asked what kind of songs she liked, she said she liked "songs that are meaningful, have good lyrics, and touch people's hearts."
The producers then handed her the song lyrics of "I Will Survive" scribbled on a piece of brown paper.
Gaynor recognized the song as a hit immediately.
According to Robert "Boogie" Bowles who played guitar on the song, in the three-hour recording session, the session musicians spent most of their time recording the A side, "Substitute".
As a result, they only had 35 minutes to record the B side "I Will Survive".
They also did not even know the song title or the melody of the song, but they were fairly relaxed recording it in the belief that the B side would likely not be played.
Based only on the chord changes and a few notes, they improvised freely much of the backing track, and Bowles filled in the bare bone of the tune with jazzy blues licks.
Although Gaynor was convinced that "I Will Survive" would be a hit and tried to persuade the label to release it as the A side, the label refused to entertain the idea and it was released as the B-side to "Substitute".
Studio 54 DJ Richie Kaczor loved it though, and played it at the popular venue.
Other disc jockeys in discos and radio stations soon followed and played that side of the record instead.
The popularity of "I Will Survive" with the DJs then finally led to the label releasing the song as an A side.
It went to #1 in the US, the UK and Ireland, and was Top 5 in a host of other countries around the world, including Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands.
The song is also often used as a symbol of female empowerment.
Rolling Stone ranked it #492 in their List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.
Billboard placed it at #97 in their ranking of The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.
In 2016, the Library of Congress deemed Gaynor's original recording to be "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
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