Simpler than simple
In a recent story in Eater, writer Halima Mansoor explains that you should always make tomato sauce from scratch, because it's always worth the effort. Matt Adler, the chef behind Washington, D.C. red-sauce joint…
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One Bake, Two Ways Cookbook Promotion with Quick Bites with Ruby Bhogal
Enter our US/CA/UK giveaway to win one of three copies of One Bake, Two Ways: Fifty Bakes with an All-plant Option Every Time by Ruby Bhogal. One Bake, Two Ways: Fifty Bakes with an All-plant Option Every Time by Ruby…
Bake with Benoit Blin Cookbook Promotion
Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of three copies of Bake with Benoit Blin: Master Cakes, Pastries and Desserts Like a Professional by Benoit Blin. Bake with Benoit Blin: Master Cakes, Pastries and Desserts Like a…
Civil Eats removes paywall
Civil Eats, an award-winning independent food news website that covers the areas of food and agriculture, especially through the lenses of how these systems intersect with policy, health, and the environment, recently…
Food news antipasto
You can find a food-related vector to almost any event in the world, and music concerts are no exception. With the news that the Gallagher brothers were reuniting for an Oasis tour, the hospitality industry is abuzz.…
One cup, many weights
One of our Members recently emailed us a question that has likely been pondered by bakers ever since the kitchen scale was invented: just how much does a cup of flour weigh? While I have extolled the virtues of weighing…
Hate pineapple on pizza? Consider the banana
The question of whether pineapple belongs on pizza can spark heated arguments. But if you think that pineapple has no place on pizza, there's another tropical fruit you may consider an even less worthy ingredient:…
A grain of truth
Because I am always looking for something interesting to bring to our Members' attention, I visit a lot of websites and ingest a lot of social media. The signal-to-noise ratio is quite low, because there is an…
Are you cuckoo for coconut?
Coconut can be a divisive ingredient - maybe not as much as cilantro/coriander, but polarizing nonetheless. As someone who adores coconut, I don't mind the haters. It just means there is more of that rich, coconutty…
August 2024 New Cookbook Review
We have arrived at the official beginning of "Cookbooktober" season. You can keep track of what is coming this year with our 2024 Cookbook Preview and don’t forget that you can create a wishlist and share it with your…
Food news antipasto
We'll start this week's roundup of food news with two Member favorites: LeCreuset and Staub. LeCreuset launched its latest color, a deep blue called Nuit. Exclusive to this color are shiny chrome knobs. Get it while you…
The PSL turns 21
If you think that pumpkin spice latte returned to Starbucks' menu earlier than ever, you are not wrong. The coffee retailer brought back its signature autumn drink on August 22, two days earlier than in the past couple…