Sticky fingers
When I was 15 years old, I traveled without my family for the first time, going over a thousand miles from home as part of a school club. To remember this momentous occasion, I tucked a glass from the hotel restaurant,…
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The case for cookbooks without photos
Images of food are a huge component of many people's Instagram and Facebook feeds, and most cookbooks today feature amazing photos that are close to works of art in and of themselves. It is difficult to imagine a…
The future of Dean & Deluca is in doubt
In the early 1990s, when I was a fresh-faced recent college graduate working in my first "real" job, I also leased my first apartment and therefore had my first "real" kitchen. No more dorm room microwave cooking for…
The Levain cookie empire expands
You might remember back in March when Jenny published the battle of the Levain Bakery chocolate chip walnut cookie, reviewing ten different copycat recipes for the absurdly thick and decadent cookies. (She settled on…
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After struggling for years to find the best way to store rolls of aluminum foil and plastic wrap that doesn't take up valuable counter space or result in jammed drawers, I spied a method that might actually work. Head…
Ingenious dishwasher hacks
Piggy-backing on Tuesday's post, today we will discuss more hacks for kitchen equipment. This time it's the dishwasher. While not everyone has a dishwasher, most people who do have one will never go back - and after…
Tips for getting the most out of your Dutch oven
A Dutch oven is a workhorse in the kitchen. The versatile pans are equally at home on the stovetop or in the oven, and are perfect for everything from deep frying to braising to holding hearty soups and stews. Those are…
YouTube cooking stars challenge traditional show
Between excellent programs like Netflix's Chef's Table; Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat; and Ugly Delicious - not to mention terrific shows on network and cable television - people who love food programs have never had it better.…
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Alton Brown's new show Good Eats: The Return debuts in August, and earlier this week Brown gave his fans topics that will be covered in the first season. Via social media, he said that we could expect to see the…
Anyone can be a cook
If you are an avid cook or baker and make food for others to enjoy, you often hear someone say "I wish I could cook but I just don't have a knack for it" or words to that effect. When this happens I am often at a loss…
The world's most expensive ingredients
Most of us know that saffron, pound for pound the world's most expensive spice, costing up to $10,000 USD per pound. But it isn't even close to being the costliest food, as Fodor's explains in its list of the ten most…
Get ready - Prime Day is just around the corner
If you took advantage of Amazon's Prime Day sales in the past but wished the window for savings was larger, you are in for a treat this year. Amazon recently announced that it was having its longest Prime Day ever,…