It was a big year for cookbooks, and in the last few months, we've seen an especially strong batch of publications. It’s no secret that cookbooks make great holiday gifts, but with so many titles to pick from, where does one start? I sifted through dozens of recently-published bo … | Continue reading
Golden syrup and clotted cream are everyday ingredients in the U.K., yet many Americans have never even heard of them. These British staples are crucial for classic desserts like treacle tarts and roly-poly pudding—you may only have seen while watching The Great British Baking Sh … | Continue reading
The first question my mom asks when she hears I’m coming home for a visit is “What do you want to eat?” It has been this way since I left for college, and to her undying frustration, I always say something like “Whatever’s easiest!” She throws out suggestions. “Chicken curry? Mat … | Continue reading
A simmering pot of soup brimming with chunky vegetables and warm spices is a hallmark of fall and winter cooking. Soup should be easy to make and comforting to consume. While many recipes require hours to make and a dozen or more ingredients, simple soups that take less than an h … | Continue reading
When I was a freshman in high school, I was nearly pushed down the stairs, startled by pop-up jocks from behind doors and called homophobic slurs. The day before Christmas break was one of the best school days of the year for most kids, second only to the last day of school. Ever … | Continue reading
I wasn’t used to the kind of date where you’d bake something together. I was used to being taken out to bars that smelled like hops and bleach and you had to yell to be heard over the music. I’d come of age at a college obsessed with fraternities and then moved to New York City j … | Continue reading
It all comes down to this week’s final bakes for the contestants under the tent competing to win this season of the Great British Baking Show. The elaborate showstopper challenge, which calls for the final contestants to create an edible structure of our beautiful planet,” shows … | Continue reading
This week the signature challenge hit all the sweet spots (pun intended) of great culinary television: a simple, widely known dish that loans itself to plenty of interpretation and personalization. Done right, a Charlotte almost always looks fantastic, too—one of its hallmarks is … | Continue reading
I’m not a huge microwave person. This can be attributed, at least in part, to the fact that my microwave is really, really bad. It’s a tiny, cheap, and relatively low-power model, manufactured by a certain e-retail giant and taken from my sister’s college dorm room. Before that, … | Continue reading
It’s hard to resist a good Black Friday Cyber Monday sale. But combing through a seemingly-endless list of discounts, especially when you’re searching for the perfect holiday gift, can feel daunting. Luckily, we’ve done some of that heavy lifting for you. We asked our team what t … | Continue reading
My mum worried so much that she staged an intervention with me via FaceTime from New Zealand. "You can't survive on frozen pizza," she said. I glanced at the fig bar wrappers, cartons of chicken broth, and greasy cardboard dotted with dried pizza sauce overflowing the trash can. … | Continue reading
Congee is casual comfort on a chilly winter evening, or the perfect morning balm if you happened to overdo it the night before. (New Year’s Day brunch, anyone?) Wintertime entertaining has a reputation for being a celebration of excess, but having friends over for a cozy, nurturi … | Continue reading
We’re partial to the lived-in, well-loved look of a sheet pan, but if your pans are verging on unusable as opposed to “rustic,” it might be time to give them a deep clean. After years of use, baking sheets eventually build up layers of burnt-on oils, grease, and just bits of food … | Continue reading
This fall, we set out to publish the most delicious apple-cranberry crisp recipe of all time—one that was bursting with juicy fruit, lightly spiced, with the butteriest, crumbliest topping. We put our top bakers on the task. Along the way, something amazing happened: We created t … | Continue reading
We chatted with recipe developer, author, and host of the YouTube series Dessert Person about her just-published cookbook, What's for Dessert. While you're here, don't forget to check out Claire's recipe for Sweet Cheese Blintzes With Lemony Apricot Compote! How did the process … | Continue reading
Have you ever pulled a two-year-old bag of flour out of the cupboard and wondered if it was still good to use? As a recipe developer, I go through a bag of flour every couple of weeks, so I wondered how long does flour last and how the heck do I store it? Is there any way to know … | Continue reading
We’ve teamed up with LifeStraw to make your holiday shopping a cinch this season with a lineup of thoughtfully designed gift ideas for the kitchen—starting with the LifeStraw Home water filter pitcher. As a food editor who also cooks a lot, I've put all sorts of kitchen gadgets, … | Continue reading
When I purchased my first home—a 100+ year old farmhouse—one of the biggest issues we had to deal with was the windows. They were the house’s original single-pane windows, and as you might suspect, they were extremely drafty, rattling around in the wind and letting lots of cold a … | Continue reading
I share my home with two adorable dogs and a precious kitty, and while there are many great things about having a multi-pet household—endless snuggles, never feeling lonely, constant entertainment—one of the downsides is that pet odors can take over quickly. Between wet dog funk … | Continue reading
Thanksgiving is a big cooking holiday for my family, and everyone is put to work (after watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, of course). Whether setting the table, prepping the greens, or stirring the pot of gravy, there is always something to be done! However, these task … | Continue reading
Our friends at KOHLER are known for beautiful, thoughtfully designed products that simplify your your home, including the kitchen. Whether you're whipping up a winter feast—complete with these dreamy mashed potatoes from Food52 Resident Dan Pelosi—or a quick weeknight meal, the K … | Continue reading
After a nearly year-long collaboration with some of the most talented ceramicists across the country, we are so excited to introduce this year's Mugs52 collection. Quantities are limited, so get your hands on your favorite designs (literally!) ASAP. From Our Shop … | Continue reading
I have a Thanksgiving confession: I’m not that into the traditional holiday foods. Sure, I like stuffing. I won’t turn down pumpkin pie. And mashed sweet potatoes will do. But I like each on its own. Together, I find it all suffocating. It’s the biggest holiday of the year for Fo … | Continue reading
I have a complicated relationship with these best butternut squash recipes. When I was 15, I attempted to cook my first-ever pot of butternut squash soup from scratch. I was using a dull chef’s knife to cut the squash in half when, in the blink of an eye, I sliced the tip of my p … | Continue reading
It’s hard to summarize all that is Ghetto Gastro’s new book, Black Power Kitchen—far from just a collection of recipes, it features political essays, interviews, artworks, gorgeous photography, and poetry. As chef Pierre Serrao—who wrote the book with his Ghetto Gastro co-founder … | Continue reading
A looming turkey shortage coupled with rising inflation means that your Thanksgiving turkey is going to be hard to find and really pricey this year. Not only have food costs continued to creep up at an alarming rate thanks to inflation, turkey supplies are particularly tight than … | Continue reading
Halloween isn’t for two more weeks, but The Great British Bake Off gives time only as much respect as it gives culture, and thus chose to run the skeleton-filled episode a few weeks early. It doesn’t really matter since nothing could ever be anywhere near as scary as the tacos cr … | Continue reading
It’s not quite Halloween yet, but we all know what happens when that day hits—within 24 hours, the mood changes from spooky season to festive season, in all its glory. If you love Christmas, and you love the Christmas season, well, it’s about to be the time of year when “All I Wa … | Continue reading
In Caribbean restaurants across America, patrons have become accustomed to common dishes such as jerk chicken, beef patties, and oxtail. The heat and vibrance of Caribbean food has made a splash stateside, but some of the more home-style, foundational dishes are still struggling … | Continue reading
When I set out to write a book about small spaces, I wanted to find people like myself who had chosen to live in a smaller space (not ones who were forced to by circumstance). I was just as curious about why people were living small as I was about how they made it work. My own fa … | Continue reading
You might be wondering why the internet is buzzing about Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing, and that’s fair enough. The short answer is that Wilde, her boyfriend Harry Styles, and her ex-fiance Jason Sudeikis (yes, the same actor who made Ted Lasso’s biscuits famous) are caught in a … | Continue reading
My family moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Boston, Massachusetts when I was a child, a dislocation that was the source of much tragedy, small and large. To be southern was to be special, but we seemed to lose our identities and our drawl overnight. At the same time, my mother disco … | Continue reading
Building a beautiful charcuterie board is truly an art form. Thick wedges of cheese mingle with salami shaped like a rose. They’re intertwined with sweet and savory pairings such as cornichons, apple butter, and fresh fruit, and are garnished with fresh herbs and edible flowers. … | Continue reading
Wine might be the first drink to come to mind when thinking about the perfect cheese pairing. The two have been enjoyed together for hundreds of years—the fruity, tannins from wine cut through the fatty, salty elements of cheese. But that’s not always the case. If you were to pai … | Continue reading
We’ve teamed up with Europe Home of Cheese: Austrian Cheese to share all the beauty—and allll the cheese—that Austria has to offer. Austria’s mountainous landscape is home to 100% GMO-free dairy production, which makes for some truly iconic and undeniably delicious curds. Austri … | Continue reading
It’s pumpkin szn, baby! Light up a white pumpkin candle from Bath & Body Works! Arrange velvet pumpkins on your bookshelves! Tell yourself that this is the year you’re going to leaf-peep across Vermont and then never do it! Watch Gilmore Girls on repeat until your eyes and ears b … | Continue reading
Our latest contest theme, Your Best Summer Salad, challenged our talented and creative community to create a salad using the plethora of fresh and delicious produce available in the summer. We can always count on our community to rally together, and the entries did not disappoint … | Continue reading
We’re teaming up with Primal Kitchen® to bring cozy-fresh flavor to your fall cooking routine. It all starts with their lineup of delicious sauces, dressings, condiments, and more (including dairy-free options), made using thoughtful, high-quality ingredients. When it comes to w … | Continue reading
In Absolute Best Tests, Ella Quittner destroys the sanctity of her home kitchen in the name of the truth. She's boiled dozens of eggs, mashed a concerning number of potatoes, and seared more Porterhouse steaks than she cares to recall. Today, she tackles s’mores. I used to think … | Continue reading
Summer has come and gone, but we can’t possibly say goodbye without highlighting our most popular recipes from September (and singing Wake Me Up When September Ends one more time for good measure). The thing with this time of year is that no one really knows what to make of it—s … | Continue reading
In trying times, few things in life can bring comfort like a crock of macaroni and cheese or baked brie in puff pastry. Unfortunately, you might need to stay away from certain types of cheese for a few weeks. Late last week, the FDA announced that Old Europe Cheese, Inc. issued a … | Continue reading
Nothing says "summer" like a perfect salad showcasing the peak of fresh produce. Whether plucked from your garden or picked up from a local farmer's market or grocery store, this is the time to enjoy the fleeting wonder of these ingredients in their prime. We asked for our Commun … | Continue reading
We’ve teamed up with BLACK+DECKER® to share a few of our favorite weeknight recipes for the whole family. Bonus: They come together in a flash thanks to the BLACK+DECKER® kitchen wand™, a cordless kitchen multitool with attachments that can whisk, blend, froth, grind, and more—it … | Continue reading
The threat of climate change loomed large above Vermont’s 2022 Cheese Summit. I was invited to the event to taste and learn about local cheeses, made by the state’s eclectic roster of producers—and I did so, gladly. But as the weekend wore on, it became increasingly clear that, d … | Continue reading
Before you prepare pulled pork sandwiches or sausage and peppers for dinner tonight, check the meat in your fridge. Behrmann Meat and Processing Inc has recalled 87,382 pounds (nearly 44 tons) of assorted ready-to-eat pork and beef products, due to possible listeria contamination … | Continue reading
The French, by and large, do not eat standing up, though there are a few exceptions to this largely unspoken rule: the quignon of a warm baguette, torn off and consumed as the loaf is transported home. Petit gris snails, which, in Occitanie, are grilled over vinewood, flambéed wi … | Continue reading
Floods in Kentucky. Fires out west. Hurricane season in the South. And with winter right around the corner, it’s time to consider how prepared you are for natural disasters. The CDC recommends Americans have, at any given time, at least a three-day supply of water and food that d … | Continue reading
Chef Kevin Tien started cooking professionally 15-odd years ago, around the time umami, the pleasantly savory fifth taste, catapulted into the national conversation after scientists identified umami taste receptors on the human tongue. If you’d asked Tien to describe what it tast … | Continue reading