CookShelfGrub 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…
On his blog, Michael Ruhlman has a fun article titled, "Cooking with Tofu (Are You Serious?!). In it, he describes how a cookbook by Andrea Nguyen, Asian Tofu, converted him from an eater who disliked tofu due to its…
Eater has a two-part series on cookbooks to be published this fall - just in time to be added to holiday gift lists. They list numerous books in several categories, as either featured or honorable mentions. The…
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…
In Brian Palmer's Slate article, "Ignore Your Oven Dial: You can't control the temperature of your oven very well, so stop worrying about it," Palmer gives a brief history of oven temperatures leading to the conclusion…
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…
Although I've been gardening vegetables for almost 10 years and have made enough mistakes to consider myself sort of "experienced," harvesting has always been a weak point for me. If I haven't been vigilant, the late…
Over at EATER, they asked five chefs, "Is There Too Much Television?" In general, the answer was yes, even from those on television. Per Andrew Zimmern, "I will say that a lot of producers are making shows where people…
The knife is, hands down, the most important tool in the kitchen (well, besides the cook, of course). And new knife technology seems to arrive frequently, whether it's Ginsu or Santoku knives from Japan, or new styles…
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…
We're not sure that Ms. Manners ever dealt with the thorny etiquette question that Chow recently posed: Should You Tell Your Host That He's About to Poison You? Chow frames the question as follows: "Here's the…
The word "legend" is a bit overused these days (yes, we're thinking of Usain Bolt), but in Julia Child's case, it's spot on. Even though she passed away several years ago, Julia's name lives on brighter than ever, even…
