Today is TASTE’s fifth birthday, and we’re celebrating with some memories, a few shout-outs, and a handful of favorite stories.

We picked a few highlights from a very memorable year, including the new rules of nonstick, the great soda awakening, kimbap, carbonara, and asking the question “Was cast iron almost canceled?” 

Highlights from a mighty year of conversations with authors and chefs like Rodney Scott, Nadiya Hussain, Sheldon Simeon, Moby, and Missy Robbins. 

Some of our greatest cooking moments of the year were fueled by mantou, canned tuna, and chile crisp.

You may not have a whole uninterrupted week to track down ingredients and cook a masterpiece. You may only have two days. But you can still bring something thoughtful and unexpected to the table this year.

There’s so much more to the tuber than mashing.

All the cutlets and Calabrian chiles you need to turn your kitchen into the deli of your dreams.

The morning is the best time for bakers to flex with tart raspberry coffee cake, brown butter banana bread, and cinnamon-apricot Bostock.

Your oven is off duty with these pies, cornflakes-filled chocolate cakes, strawberry parfaits, and more.

Turn your summer produce into fritters, your stone fruit into a fritto misto, and your cactus paddles into milanese.

We have entered outdoor cooking season—here’s how we’re making the most of it.

We’re on the brink of the most exciting time of the year for buying and cooking produce.

We could all use an easygoing budino, panna cotta, or taho.

How to turn those Cara Caras, lemons, and kalamansi into vinaigrettes, pasta sauces, marmalades, and more.

Get to know some of the writers, chefs, and innovators reshaping how we think about food.

With a few slices of bread, a hunk of cheese, and a hot skillet, anything is possible.

We picked a few story highlights from a very memorable year, including a close look at the industrial croissant, a dive into the restaurant industry’s pivot to meal kits, and a celebration of sardine collecting.

Highlights from a mighty year of conversations with authors and chefs like Ruby Tandoh, Vallery Lomas, Claire Saffitz, Alexander Smalls, Ina Garten, and more.

A look at some of the year's greatest hits, from baking buttermilk bread, frying crispy cutlets, sheet panning panzanella, and always confiting your tuna.

In her TASTE column, Mari Uyehara tackles some of the big questions in food, from the dark history of tuna sandwiches to the life and times of the kale salad.

We’re living in the golden age of baked pastas.