A recent feature of the author in the New York Times revealed a chicken salad recipe with a shocking secret ingredient. So of course I had to try it.

“He then whipped together a dressing consisting of mayonnaise, dill pickle relish, jalapeño relish, apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and 16 packets of Splenda,” recounts Morfoot.

A recent profile in the New York Times has left many readers both bewildered and disgusted by Nicholas Sparks’ bizarre chicken salad recipe, which contains 16 packets of Splenda.

I t’s the overly saccharine collab of the century! A new profile of best-selling author Nicholas Sparks in the New York Times’s real-estate section has raised the question: Ho