CookShelfUnder the general heading of "Huh?" comes this story. It turns out that Danish bakers, when baking the classic Danish pastry treats "kanelsnegel" (cinnamon roll) and "kanelstang" (cinnamon twist) during the Christmas…
One million recipes - and every one added by a human being not a bot. Because EYB is a database, not a word search, every recipe has to be entered manually. For cookbooks and magazines, all details are typed in by an…
I've seen a couple of references around the web to a recent Buzz Feed Food feature called 21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Recipes - obviously, these recipes have hit a nerve for many. But I wonder about the use of…
For the new year, we're starting a weekly post here on the blog compiling some of the recipes and cookbooks we've recently featured on Facebook and Twitter. Many of the recipes are samples from recently indexed…
We apologize to our friends down under, and others not as affected by the recent record low temperatures in the U.S. and Canada, but we're a little obsessed with cold right now. Those of us who live in these areas have…
We have to applaud Food & Wine's latest video, which Braiser is previewing. Narrated by their Editor-in-Chief, Dana Cowin, it follows five famous chefs - Mario Batali, Eric Ripert, David Chang, Hugh Acheson, and Grant…
In an intriguing blog recently on Zester, Anne Willan wrote about her most recent culinary project: "I was lying in bed, thinking about the family tree hanging in my closet, when I hit on the concept of The Cookbook…
2013 seems to have been an anthropological moment in American food: two ambitious tomes devoted to the subject came out, and each attempted to sum up a dauntingly diverse population of eaters in a slightly different…
What to do if your stove doesn't work? The grill is out of gas or you've run out of charcoal? Well, it turns out that many of us have been overlooking an important cooking appliance - the hairdryer. According to NPR's…
It may not be the biggest kitchen issue, but learning to wrap a burrito so it doesn't fall apart is not only a useful bit of information, but surprisingly useful in other ways - it works for sandwich wraps, enchiladas,…
Continuing our theme of healthy eating, we thought we'd bring you some advice on roasting winter vegetables, courtesy of Kenji Lopez-Alt over at Serious Eats. In his article The Food Lab: How to Roast Fall and Winter…
I've written about slow cookers before here, but they are so popular and published in such volume that I think it might be worth doing an annual review of the genre each January. Personally, I love my slow cooker,…
