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Ina Garten has a new podcast called Happy Hour, where she talks with celebrity guests at her New York City apartment. The podcast is billed as "conversations you would love to overhear at a great dinner party." I…
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Squeezing in the last bites of summer
In much of the Midwest, this week felt like someone abruptly turned off the summer switch and turned the autumn dial all the way up. After an extremely hot summer, suddenly the nighttime lows dipped into the 50s and the…
Good Housekeeping brings back its iconic 1980s cookbook
When The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook was first published in 1980, it was a tremendous success - so successful that it was updated and reissued twice (in 1988 and 2001). All together these cookbooks have sold…
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Have you ever thought that the big cookie companies were overrated? If so, you will want to read the story on Ravenous about how private equity loves cookies—but quality? Not so much. Chains like Crumbl and Insomnia…
GBBO is back on 22 September
The Great British Bake Off announced that the show will return to the UK on Monday 22 September at 8:00 p.m. on Channel 4. We also got a sneak peek at this year's cast, which as usual is a cross-section of the UK…
Ranch Renaissance
One of the best parts of the World Cup being in the Americas was watching people who had never been to the US trying iconic American foods: the Australian enamored by Waffle House, people eating hot dogs for the first…
Preserving the seasons
It's one of life's biggest ironies: the time to preserve fruits and vegetables is during the hottest, stickiest days of the year. Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich recently wrote that this is their busiest time of year…
Lulled to sleep...with breakfast?
Waking up in the morning to the sounds and smells of breakfast being made is divine, and not something that I get to experience very often (I haven't been able to teach my cats how to cook). Catching a whiff of coffee…
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The world lost a legend and all around good person last week when Dolly Parton passed away at the age of 80. Tributes have been pouring in from the world over, not just about Dolly's musical gifts, but also about her…
Foods that even chefs buy instead of make
While I would love to make almost everything I eat from scratch, the reality of being a working professional with a long commute stands in the way. Like most busy people, I buy things premade, but it looks like I am in…
Your favorite under-the-radar foods or flavors
A recent article by Saveur spotlighting the flavors of black raspberries made me think about how much I love their flavor, and about other under appreciated foods that I like. Before I moved to my current location, I…
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When you ask food icons like Alton Brown to talk about cookbooks, you might expect them to tell you that they found inspiration in an esoteric tome you've never heard of, or to recommend the latest offering by whoever…