Food from a Country ‘That Doesn’t Exist’
VICE · 8 minTurkish Cypriot voices are rarely represented in food writing about Cyprus, but cook and activist Yasmin Khan’s new book is different.
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Loaded Breakfast Sweet Potatoes
Feel Good Foodie · 3 minPerfect for a healthy and filling brunch.
Chinese Cooking Helps Me Connect With My Mother—And Helps Me Prepare to Lose Her
electricliterature.com · 17 minMichelle Zauner’s memoir "Crying in H Mart" showed me how bonding over food could let me cope with anticipatory grief.
How a British Retiree Became the Twitter King of ‘Big Veg’ Gardening
Eater · 11 min72-year-old Gerald Stratford started a Twitter account to share his vegetables. Hundreds of thousands of followers later, he has a book deal and appears in a Gucci campaign.
How to Turn Nearly Any Baking Recipe into a Vegan Baking Recipe
Bon Appétit · 6 minTips for vegan baking, from egg substitutes to butter swaps to pantry essentials.
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Everything in This Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie Is Good For Your Brain
Well+Good · 3 minWhen psychiatrist Drew Ramsey, MD, works with patients who have depression or anxiety, he of course asks many thoughtful questions related to what’s going on in their life.
Flourless Chocolate Brownie Cookies
The Kitchn · 3 minI’ve made a lot of cookies in my life — from shortbread to snickerdoodles and everything in between — but the one cookie I keep coming back to are these flourless chocolate brownie cookies.
How to make cheese and onion pie – recipe
The Guardian · 3 minThis northern classic ticks all the boxes for outdoor dining this April, as far as I’m concerned – sturdy enough to take to the park, easy to share safely with friends and satisfyingly hearty, because this is spring in St Bees, not St Tropez.
Cacio e pepe pie is an insanely easy pasta dinner to make on nights when you don't feel like cooking
Salon · 5 minIt often feels like the word "cook," both as a noun and verb, is a female thing. Whether stirring a pot or pulling a cake from the oven, the image of the woman at the stove is ubiquitous. It's powerful, and sometimes it's really suffocating. If you feel this way, you're not alone.
How To Make the Easy Baked Feta Pasta Everyone’s Talking About
Well+Good · 2 minBaked feta pasta is almost too good to be true. The completely foolproof recipe tastes like something that took hours to put together, not minutes.
Marcella Hazan’s Bolognese Sauce Confirms She’s the Queen of Italian Cooking
The Kitchn · 3 minIf you’ve never heard of Marcella Hazan, please allow me to give you a brief introduction. Marcella was an Italian-born food writer and is known as the queen of Italian cooking. She’s credited with bringing authentic Italian food to the U.S., and wrote several Italian cookbooks.
Vegan Cheese Is Ready to Compete With Dairy. Is the World Ready to Eat It?
Eater · 22 minWhen Isa Chandra Moskowitz became a vegan, most of the vegan cheese she was able to find on store shelves was “really processed, really stiff, and not melty,” she says. “I just tasted melted crayons.”
Slow burn: a fast guide to slow cooking
The Guardian · 5 minLike any kitchen device, slow cookers have their quirks, advantages and pitfalls. When you know and understand what your slow cooker can and can’t do, you can use it to wondrous effect. After cooking (a lot) with different cookers new and old, I can confirm that they vary in heat.
Garlic Bread Grilled Cheese
Bon Appétit · 1 minEven though we understand the impulse to want to start eating grilled cheese as soon as possible, don’t rush the cooking process. Moderate heat allows the cheese inside to fully melt without burning the outsides.
Who Invented Chicken Nuggets?
history.com · 5 minBefore McDonald's pioneered McNuggets for fast food consumption, a Cornell University researcher developed bite-size breaded chicken sticks that could be easily fried and frozen.
The Food Lab's Favorite Hot Sauces
Serious Eats · 14 minEditor's Note: This article was originally published in 2017. It has since been reformatted for ease of browsing and updated to reflect what sauces are available as of 2021. Naming a "best" hot sauce is an impossible task, akin to naming a best episode of MacGyver or a best style of dumpling.
‘This sauce will change your life!’ 30 brilliant condiments to transform your tired lockdown dishes
The Guardian · 9 minWhen you’re barely allowed out of your home, let alone your neighbourhood, you have to mix things up whenever you can.
How To (Re)Organize Your Kitchen, According to a Professional Organizer
Bon Appétit · 3 minFaith Roberson is here to restore order to our overworked, undercleaned kitchens.
Swedish Egg Coffee Recipe: What It Is And How To Make It
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Have Sad Desk Lunches Gotten Sadder?
tastecooking.com · 6 minA year of work-from-home lunches has some longing for the satiating normalcy of the office lunch break.
Yotam Ottolenghi's comfort food recipes
The Guardian · 7 minComfort food is mostly about two things: memories and context. So much of what we think of as comforting food are the meals we ate as kids – those warm bowls or plates that appeared, repeatedly and reassuringly, in front of us.
Sushi Bake Is the Lockdown Trend I’ll Never Stop Making
Bon Appétit · 7 minGood for dinner at home now, great for (eventual) potlucks in the future.
Thomasina Miers' recipe for sticky date, chocolate and brown butter blondies
The Guardian · 2 minThere is something reassuringly easy about these blondies. My children can make them with minimal input from me, and anything that gets them creating instead of screen-bashing is high on my agenda right now.
Ghanaian fritters and Venezuelan corncakes: Yotam Ottolenghi's street food recipes
The Guardian · 5 minOne of the many joys of street food is that you can move on from one country to another as soon as your tummy allows.