Some meal kits give more of an illusion of cooking, with lots of preportioned ingredients and very little in the way of prep work or technique. Marley Spoon is not one of them. It is designed for people...
Photographs by Mary Kang.The entrance to Barbs B Q is marked by a pink wood sign decorated with little hearts. Inside, white walls are peppered with menus in that same bubblegum hue, several illustrations of Sonic the Hedgehog,...
ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Dinner SOS, test kitchen director and host Chris Morocco is joined by test kitchen editor Kendra Vaculin to brainstorm ways to make lunch at home exciting for our caller Kaitlin.Kaitlin and her husband...
When I started working in food media, my then-boyfriend Michael invented an imaginary competitor to my employers called Mike’s Food News, which quickly became a recurring bit.Eating mediocre fast food, he would say, “Too bad you can’t write...
Sometimes, you have the stamina of a winning pastry chef. You challenge yourself to make gourmet Oreos, you won’t rest until that cake is perfection. These easy pie recipes are not for those times. They’re for the times...
Sure, making cold brew at home is easy enough, but sometimes even “easy enough” is still too much effort. That’s why a cold-brew subscription can be a serious game-changer. Even if you’re not a year-round iced coffee drinker,...
When I moved into my apartment, I spent hours degreasing the cabinets. I could tell by the sticky sheen on the doors that the previous tenants were big fans of frying and that the perfunctory exhaust system—a mounted...
Until last month, I could not justify owning a salad spinner. Of course I thought it would be nice to have, but it’s a bulky single-use gadget I mentally categorized with other honey-oak-cabinet clutter of my youth: electric...
He and I palled around a bit back then. We hung out after hours sometimes, we had beers at Siberia Bar, and once, when we stepped outside to hail cabs home, the sun was rising. Over the years we had...
