Culture A Sermon on Smoke “You don’t see the spaghetti people doing this,” says competition barbecue boss and pit educator Mike Mills of the passion of his … Story: Robert F. Moss
Culture Let’s Call It Assimilation Food What happens when immigrants have to adapt to cooking in a new home? A new cuisine, forged from sensory memories and new … Story: Soleil Ho
Culture It’s About Time You Bought a Digital Scale For home cooks, particularly bakers, chucking the spoons and measuring cups for a digital scale opens up a new world of more … Story: Daniela Galarza
Culture The Settlement Cookbook: 116 Years and 40 Editions Later Originally written as a pamphlet for young immigrant women, The Settlement Cookbook’s many editions have defined and documented the story of Jewish … Story: Layla Schlack
Culture The Fake Rolex of Canned Foods San Marzano tomatoes are prized for their balanced flavor and distinct tomato-iness. Yet as home cooks become more and more enchanted with … Story: Mari Uyehara
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
Culture The Meat Raffle Every small town has its share of community fund-raisers, but in Western New York, it’s all about the meat raffle. Hundreds of … Story: Dan Higgins
Culture Breaking In Candy Is Magic Crack open any cookbook and you are confronted with a dizzying collection of recipes. If you are actually going to make something … Story: Rosie Schaap
Culture Fermentation 2.0 Ambitious chefs and home cooks alike are pickling sweet corn, crab apples, fish bones, and basically anything they want. I remember the … Story: Matt Gross
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
Culture What’s Up, Michael Bao Huynh? The legend of Michael Bao grows with the shaking beef taco. As the Vietnam War was just building steam, a cook walked … Story: Calvin Godfrey
Culture The Zen of Ken How Kenny Shopsin’s pioneering book Eat Me taught me to stop worrying and love the cookbook. If there’s one cookbook I remember … Story: Garrett Snyder
Culture A Girl Finds Her Knife You may know Amy Thielen from her 2013 book, The New Midwestern Table, her television show, Heartland Table, or her column for … Story: Amy Thielen
Culture Amarisa’s Cooking Pot In this work of fiction, an old family pot teaches an important lesson. Amarisa lifted the lid off of her cazuela, inhaled … Story: Désirée Zamorano
Culture The First Time A young boy’s sensual escapade with a squid is reflected upon in the context of adult experience. Ever since my fevered adolescence … Story: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Culture The Rock Eater In this piece of short fiction, a man finds himself suffering from a strange hunger that food doesn’t seem to cure. There … Story: Ben Loory
Culture Viva Chile Verde A fictional story about a not-so-fictional chile verde recipe that possesses the power of persuasion. That earthquake hit the restaurant pretty hard, popped … Story: Lou Mathews
Culture Missed Connection W2W: Los Angeles—Los Feliz A work of fiction about a friendship that’s been chiseled apart by sprouted almonds and coconut water. I was Googling almond-crust prosciutto … Story: Sarah LaBrie
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 What Is a Flat White, Exactly? Nobody Knows. It’s not a cappuccino, latte, mocha, or cortado. But the story of the popular coffee drink goes well beyond a name. Several … Story: Mari Uyehara
