Cooking Seasoning Lentils: A Two-Act Play For the French, lentils are a national treasure, and with the right amount of sausage, white wine, and care, they can be … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture The Year of Lasagna We live in an era of performative project-cooking. It’s time to bring back the reassuring, unglamorous functionality of a big tray of … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Cookie Swap Four writers on the holiday cookies that will be getting them through the season. We make holiday cookies to exchange with friends … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture A Cake That Demands an Oven of Its Own Baumkuchen is a centuries-old staple of German weddings and Christmases, but it’s getting harder to find. Except one place. If you encountered … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture Don’t Cook With an Instant Pot Just Because You Can In her new cookbook, Dinner in an Instant, Melissa Clark wants to help you get to dinner faster without cutting out any … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture How Do You Get a Name Like Pepper? We had to find out: How did Vilailuck Teigen get one of the greatest food-related nicknames out there? Vilailuck Teigen is one … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Cream Cheese: A Homemade Ice Cream Miracle Worker A one-stop ingredient to make your homemade ice cream thicker, smoother, and more flavorful. If you’ve ever labored over a batch of … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture Jon Shook Loves His Butter Wheel Everybody with a kitchen has a decent knife, a cutting board or two, and some mixing bowls. In our column Surprisingly Useful, … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking The Story of Mexican Ice Cream In a new cookbook, Fany Gerson tells the centuries-long story of ice cream in Mexico, from flavored snow to hand-churned sorbet. Ice cream … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture Peter Cho Loves His X-Acto Knife Everybody with a kitchen has a decent knife, a cutting board or two, and some mixing bowls. In our column Surprisingly Useful, … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Herb Sauce: A Home Cook’s Problem Solver The only condiment you need this summer is a handful of herbs thrown into a blender with some oil and vinegar. It … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture Books for Better Outdoor Cooking Nine of the best books out there for grilling, and smoking, and everything in between. Outdoor cooking can mean a lot of … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture Molly Yeh Loves Her Pastry-Cutting Accordion Everybody with a kitchen has a decent knife, a cutting board or two, and some mixing bowls. In a new column called Surprisingly Useful, we’re … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Your Grill Needs a Cast-Iron Sidekick A cast-iron skillet on the grill brings the versatility of stovetop cooking outside. Who among us has not unwittingly sacrificed a particularly … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Everybody Should Keep a Bag of Cookie Dough in Their Freezer Don’t have dessert plans for your next dinner party? Cookie dough has your back. When I have people over for dinner, I … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture Entertaining Books Through The Years Paging through history’s most famous hostesses. The question of how to correctly throw a party has inspired tomes over the years, by … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture David Lebovitz Loves His Dusting Wand Everybody with a kitchen has a decent knife, a cutting board or two, and some mixing bowls. In a new column—Surprisingly Useful—we’re … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Rye Is on the Rise It took a couple millennia, but rye has finally evolved from a peasant food to a coveted pastry ingredient. About a year ago, it started … Story: Anna Hezel
Culture Brooklyn’s Most Famous Chocolate Cake, Reborn with Semifreddo The first time I tasted a Brooklyn Blackout doughnut from New York’s cult-status Doughnut Plant, I figured the name was a catchy … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Deborah Madison Wants You to Use More Vinegar If you’ve ever brought a pot of chili back from the brink of being inedibly spicy, woken up a snoozy lentil soup, … Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking Home Cooking the Bangkok Way Leela Punyaratabandhu first fell in love with the vibrant home-cooking traditions of Bangkok at her family’s home on a canal on the northwest … Story: Anna Hezel
