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Welcome to Forking Season! HelloFresh and Tinder are teaming up for an epic date night collaboration to help couples get cooking in the kitchen. The meal kit company partnered with the dating app to release “Date Night Delights” recipe series announced on Monday (Nov. 7).

 Ahead of the official launch of Cuffing Season, Date Night Delights feature a mixture of customer favorites and new recipes like Beef Tenderloin With Cheddar-Gouda Fondue With Asparagus, Fingerling Potatoes, Apple & Baguette; Lemony Spaghetti With Brussels Sprouts Sprinkled With Toasted Panko & Chives; Rosemary Fig Pork Tenderloin With Kale & Sweet Potato Jumble; Pan-Roasted Chicken & Shallot Sauce With Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus & Mashed Potatoes; Grand Cru and Cured Meat Board and (ready-made) White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake.

Each meal includes perfectly portioned ingredients with easy-to-follow recipes (we’ve tested out a few Date Night Delights recipes and can confirm that they’re easy to make).

HelloFresh offers quick and easy recipes and flexible subscription plans starting at just $49 per box. To get started click the link below to pick your plan, choose meal preferences, serving size (two or four people) and select a number of meals per week (choose from two meals up to six meals per week). HelloFresh’s most popular meal package lets you get three meals for just $71. And you’re not locked into a contract. You can cancel anytime, skip a week, or change meals as needed.

In addition to the recipe series, HelloFresh and Tinder launched a limited-edition collection of Forking Seasonings available for $14.99 at HelloForkingSeason.com while supplies last. Couples can add some extra spice to the kitchen with sweet and savory, chef-curated spice blend blends: Ignite(cinnamon, cloves, and ginger), Spark(saffron and salt) and Kindle(vanilla and sugar). The spice set comes with tips on how to use the spices in food and drink recipes.

According to data gathered by HelloFresh and Tinder, 81 percent of those surveyed feel that cooking a meal for their partner means the relationship is moving from casual to committed — and that usually happens around the fifth date. Seventy percent of survey respondents believe that cooking with their partner is more intimate than fooling around, 56 percent of those surveyed feel pressure to go all out on dinner dates and nearly a third of respondents feel that cooking together can help lead to long-lasting relationships.

Cooking is also one of the top 20 interests Tinder users add to their profiles and the “Date Night Delights” menu can take some of the pressure off deciding what to cook for dinner dates.

“We were inspired to learn that four out of five Americans agree that a relationship is becoming serious when you start cooking for your partner,” Kirsten Walpert, VP of Brand and Creative, HelloFresh US, said in a press release sent to Billboard. “With food playing such a central role in how couples connect and create memorable moments, we’re excited to be partnering with Tinder to introduce Forking Season and give consumers everything they need to prepare easy and delicious meals at home.”

“When date nights out lead to date nights in, things are getting serious. We know Tinder users are looking for a match to get cozy with this Cuffing Season, from the 96% increase in users talking about ‘Cuffing Season’ in their profile bios. We’ve also found that today’s singles are looking for new date ideas that are more interactive than sitting across from each other in a restaurant,” said Stephanie Danzi, Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at Tinder. “We love this partnership with HelloFresh because these ‘Date Night Delights’ create more opportunities for new couples to get to know each other and unlock a new phase of connection.”

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Family fun for the holidays. Alanis Morissette is used to being center stage but the Canadian singer stepped outside the box in a “heartwarming” new holiday campaign for Gap.

Morissette, who previously appeared in a 2005 Gap commercial with John Legend, Keith Urban and Jason Mraz, stars in the brand’s latest holiday campaign alongside her husband, Mario “Souleye” Treadway, and their three kids.

“Integrating my family into the campaign made it all the more heartwarming for me,” Morissette told Billboard in an email interview earlier this week.

“I gently warned everyone that the shoot might be an exercise in organized chaos,” she said of working with her family. “I have a pretty clear boundary between work and personal life. This was an example of us stepping outside of the more private approach we take and allowed for us to express how important relationships are in each of our lives.”

Gap commissioned a group of “gifted individuals” for the campaign, which celebrates the “holiday season as a gift.” Besides Morissette and her family, the campaign features podcaster, author and purpose coach Jay Shetty with his wife, cookbook author Radhi Devlukia; Grammy-winning composer/songwriter and folk artist Diana Gordon; model, singer and actress Rola; Lester Walker, Pierre Serrao and Jon Gray founders of the chef collective Ghetto Gastro; model Florence Huntington-Whiteley; model and designer Elsa Hosk with her daughter Tuuli; and body-positive model Sabina Karlsson with her family.

Staying true to her personal style, Morissette sports loose-fitting, comfortable clothing in the Gap campaign, including men’s ’90s Loose Denim Jeans ($79.95) paired with Gap’s Velvet Boyfriend Shirt ($34). The look matches Morissette’s “androgynous approach” to styling herself.

“I love the idea of combining glam with casual. Haute with leisure, dirty with fancy. This was a perfect example of care combined with mellow, classic pieces. Perfectly set up for personalizing with jewelry pieces or accessories.”

In music news, Morissette released a cover of George Michael’s “Last Christmas” from her holiday EP on Friday (Nov. 3). The four-song EP also includes covers of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” and Christmas carols “Little Drummer Boy” and “What Child is This?”

“I have been obsessed with George Michael my entire life and had the pleasure of meeting him backstage at one of my shows. WHAM! was a favorite band when I was younger,” she explained. “George’s voice (velvet and dreamy) was super inspiring to me,” she explained. “Covering ‘Last Christmas’ is a way to mark the holiday time as well as bow down to George himself.”

The holidays are a great time to catch up on festive music and musicals like Jagged Little Pill. The musical, based off Morissette’s pivotal 1995 album, will be at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theater from Oct. 24-Nov. 26 and Knoxville, Tenn. from Dec. 5-10.

Jagged Little Pill the musical will head to Sacramento next year along with St. Louis, Orlando, Fla., Kalamazoo, Mich., Charleston S.C., Dallas, Texas and other cities.

“I love that this musical touches on topics that I care about so deeply,” said Morissette. “The emphasis is on healing, connection, the pain of rupture or the loneliness of a sense of disconnection.  And how to remain connected in the face of conflict or challenge or loss. Such a celebration of how we define ourselves as we go along. The musical has the delicate combination of super vulnerable, activism, self-expression and the healing power of showing up with empathy.”