Ingredient substitution guide
The Kitchn has a useful Quick Guide to Ingredient Substitutions for last-minute kitchen replacements or "if you're trying to modify a recipe out of dietary necessity (shifting it to be dairy or gluten-free, for…
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Bon Appétit's "Most Insane" Recipes
It's always commendable when an organization laughs at itself, and Bon Appétit is doing just that with its article, The 15 Most Insane Vintage Recipes Published in Bon Appétit. And they include not only descriptions,…
The coolest way ever to separate an egg
Grub Street found a great video on how to separate an egg. The video is in Chinese but it doesn't matter -- it's perfectly clear from the images what the woman is doing. Indeed, it adds a whole new layer of context to…
Your grater is more of a multi-purpose tool than you may realize
Regardless of how much kitchen space you have, most of us are still reluctant to invest the money or storage room in single-purpose items. So we thought this article by Bon Appétit, 11 Things You Didn't Know Were Great…
Taste test: Greek-style yogurt
For those of us in the United States who watched the Olympics, it was very hard to ignore the continuous Chobani yogurt commercials. And Chobani should be acknowledged as the New York company that introduced and has…
Renovating the Food 52 kitchen
There are a lot of kitchen renovating articles, but they tend to follow rote patterns: what to do if the sky's the limit, what to do with an absurdly low amount of money, what to do with a miniscule amount of space. In…
3 coffee tips plus how to clean a burr grinder
It's Monday, the Olympics are over, and it's time for (some of) us to get back to work. So we thought these coffee-related tips would be helpful. The first three are from the America's Test Kitchen Feed and concern…
Bottled tartar sauce taste test
We always enjoy Serious Eats' taste tests and find them to be a great guide. As they point out in their Taste Test: Bottled Tartar Sauce, tartar sauce has both fans and serious haters: "There's no such thing as tartar…
Happy National Rice Pudding Day!
There are so many fancy dishes out there. And so many wonderfully fresh ingredients. And they all have their day. But rice pudding is one of those unsung heroes of childhood that somehow still strikes a chord - and it's…
Con-artist cooking
Janice Harper over at Huff Post Food has a really fun article for people who don't like to cook - and, frankly, even for those of us who love to cook but just may not be up to the task at the moment. In her piece,…
Join us in these 3 uproarious food moments
Thanks to the SALT, we've been given a chance to view "Three Ways Lucille Ball Ruled When She Played With Food." If you haven't ever seen the wine-crushing brawl, the chocolate wrapping assembly line or - probably one…
How to store: cilantro, bread, & cheese
We have a theme today, courtesy of The Kitchn - the best way to store three items that often seem to go bad before they've been eaten. Check out: The Best Way to Store Cilantro (we find the same method works for parsley…