Cooking Give Your Dumpling a Crispy Skirt A two-ingredient trick transforms your frozen dumplings into an izakaya-worthy dish. Story: Tatiana Bautista
Cooking Got Saltines? Make Fire Crackers. Give the iconic cracker a new lease on life. Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking What Can’t Fennel Do? From seed to frond, pollen to bulb, fennel is the vegetable kingdom’s true utility player. And it deserves your respect. Story: Leela Punyaratabandhu
Culture She Rewrote the History of American Cooking Toni Tipton-Martin introduced the forgotten founders of black cooking. Now she's showing us what they cooked. Story: Therese Nelson
Cooking It’s About the Crumb, Not the Cake For maximum streusel effect, just flip the script, and the cake. Story: A.A. Newton
Cooking What Makes a Good Bar Nut? The best ones are worth becoming a regular for—or making at home. Story: Michael Harlan Turkell
Cooking The Bo Ssäm Decade How Momofuku’s slow-roasted pork became David Chang’s signature “fajita moment.” Story: Matt Gross
Cooking The Sauce That Binds Each Southeast Asian take on peanut sauce tells a different story. Story: Marianna Cerini
Cooking Soup Mix Is a Real Seasoning That ramen flavor packet has a legit place in your kitchen. Story: Tyler Kord
Cooking Ketchup-Fry Your Rice Give day-old rice a second life with kimchi and Heinz. Story: Vera Blossom
Story Collection Better Tools, Better Dinner The case for investing in a pelmeni press, an air fryer, and a Norwegian cheese slicer. Story: Anna Hezel
Cooking It’s Not Curry, It’s Rendang A long, languid simmer in coconut milk, lemongrass, and galangal gives rendang the intensity of five curries packed into one. Here's how to make it. Story: Yi Jun Loh
Culture The Grill That Gave ’90s Kids Their Kitchen Training Wheels The George Foreman Grill may have been advertised as a fat-fighting machine and used as fuel for jokes, but it also got people to cook. Story: Aaron Goldfarb
Cooking Go On, Get the MSG Padded with plenty of kosher salt, the seasoning can be the wind beneath your dinner’s wings. Story: Daniel Holzman
Cooking Leeks. Bacon. Wok. Two ingredients deliver all the smoke and satisfaction of Hunan-style stir-fry. Story: Cathy Erway
Cooking Salsa Verde on Everything Keep the vibrant, herby sauce on hand to wake up grilled meats, basic eggs, and even plain old toast. Story: Tatiana Bautista
Culture Raspberry Vinaigrette Changed the Way We Salad How America’s side salads turned fruity and fuchsia. Story: Jamie Feldmar
Cooking An Apple Cake That’s Mostly Apples A one-bowl recipe that turns a heap of apples and a brown-butter batter into a custardy, craggy-topped cake. Story: A.A. Newton
Cooking Make a Pumpkin Your Instant Pot This genius method turns a pumpkin into the cooking vessel, the serving bowl, and the soup itself. Story: Rebecca Firkser
Cooking Let Them Steam Cake A bamboo basket is great for dumplings, but even better for this impossible-to-overcook cake. Story: Tatiana Bautista
A Kitchen in New Orleans Hold the Mayo, Bring the Heat A Turkish way with egg salad that leans into the fiery, citrusy chile flakes of the Middle East. Story: Scott Hocker