CookShelfHave you ever come across a food and wondered where it got its unusual name? "There has to be a fantastic story behind that product," you may mutter to yourself. If so, check out Gastro Obscura's article on Britain's…
If you have read a baking book published in the US in the past ten years, chances are you have come across the word Kerrygold. The Irish butter has become the most popular European-style butter in the United States, and…
As Nigella Lawson embarks on her US tour in support of the new cookbook At My Table, fans across the country are making plans to visit the domestic goddess at their local bookstore. For those who are not fortunate…
The Instant Pot juggernaut shows no signs of stopping, despite a recent recall over one of its models. Cooks everywhere have come to depend on the machine's versatility and speedy cooking. If you like the current models…
Richard Kostelanetz (also known simply as "Kosti") is a writer, artist, critic, and editor of the avant-garde. He has degrees from Brown University, Columbia University, and he attended King's College, London. He served…
Last fall, Julia Turshen released her latest cookbook called Feed the Resistance, which aimed to foster community and provide sustenance for the mind and soul in this era of activism. Proceeds from the book will be…
If you're among the millions of people who dyed a bunch of eggs to use as decoration for the Easter holiday, you are probably facing a conundrum of what to do with all of them now that Easter is behind us. Egg salad…
Did you fall for an April Fools' Day prank today? Social media was full of fake stories, including Google Israel launching a "Hummus API", Burger King's ad for a Chocolate Whopper, Siggi's debuting a fermented shark…
Everyone has cherished family recipes, handed down from mother (or father), who got it from her mother, who ostensibly received it from hers as well. An investigation by Atlas Obscura calls into question these…
Food magazines have been falling like dominoes - Gourmet, Food Arts, Lucky Peach - these and many others have succumbed to the pressures of digital publications and sagging subscriptions. Just when it seemed like the…
The Google Doodle often celebrates historical figures. Today's Doodle recognizes the 310th birthday of a woman considered one of the world's first modern cookbook authors, Hannah Glasse. Glasse was born Hannah Allgood…
To call our modern times fast-paced is a gross understatement, which is why recalling something that happened "all the way back" in 2009 seems like a Herculean endeavor. We need to travel back to that year, however, to…
