One of our new favorite neighborhood restaurants in Chicago is a great little Cuban place, and we'll order just about anything that comes with their garlicky mojo sauce. When we came across this Flick...
We’re hosting a small gathering of friends and family for Independence Day this year, and have been busily browsing through some of our favorite cocktail books for inspiration.
Here are four of o...
Yesterday we took a "Hot or Not" vote on flag cakes (at the time we're writing this, it's pretty much a tie), and then we saw this smaller, round version. Just as festive, but not quite as kitschy. We...
We are not big red-meat-eaters, but we do love lamb. We also think that lamb is suited especially well to the smoky, outdoors flavor of the grill. Here are two recipes that we are thinking of this Jul...
Last week while visiting the Central Coast of California, we came across this avocado farm on the north side of Highway 41, just outside of Morro Bay....
Have you ever made one of these? We certainly have. These sheet cakes iced with white frosting and topped with strawberry (or raspberry) stripes and blueberry stars are all the rage on the 4th of July...
Ever wonder how artisan bread bakers get such perfect round loaves every single time?
Chances are that they're using a proofing basket to help the loaves keep their shape and structure through their ...
So if it has yogurt in it, can we pretend it's healthy? Pretty please?
This recipe for Orange Yogurt Cake comes from one of our favorite blogs, Farmgirl Fare. We made it for a barbecue dinner party l...
Persian Green Plums are early-ripening plums grown in the mountains of Iran and are often eaten sour....
Friday July 4th - we'll be off tomorrow (except for a couple special posts - think cocktails). We're curious about your food plans. Are you cooking out? Staying in and enjoying the three-day weekend? ...
The perfect small teapot, homemade bitters, clever table linens and more......
We recently made a simple vegetable dish that called for a healthy amount of tarragon. The tarragon was fresh and tender and beautiful — and completely overwhelming.
It made us think that, hmm, ma...
Hi! At our recent Austin, Texas, farmer's market, I scored an amazing deal on a basket of jalapeños. I planned to share them with friends but still have a bunch left over, and I was wondering if any...
July 4th is a very important celebration. When thinking about what wines to choose, many people feel particularly nationalistic on that day and opt for wines produced in the United States. Bravo!
Ame...
Maybe it's because we have grilling on the brain this month, but this patio caught our eye the other day. It's Weber Grill Restaurant in Chicago, and they've created a patio border with fences made fr...
Our friends over at Serious Eats are telling us to celebrate July 4th with a plop instead of a bang. What's a plop, we ask?
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With apologies to our vegetarian friends, this has to be our favorite way to make potato salad. If it has hard-boiled eggs in it, too, all the better.
Get some recipes below... ...
To understand the flavors and cuisine of New England, you need to understand one basic idea: It gets COLD up here!
Our growing season is pretty darn short, with heavy emphasis on fruits and vegetable...
Everywhere you go in the world, you see people with nefarious wasteful plastic bags, laminated logo-bearing reusable tote bags, and earth-conscious green market bags. These were spotted recently on sa...
A long weekend is nearly here. What are your cooking (and grilling) plans?...
Oh my, how much do we want to try this? A lot, that's how much. ...
Tanner writes: Hi there! I recently started making bread (thanks to your link to the Times No-Knead recipe) and, and I'm loving it -- for the first day. My problem is storage!
In a zip-lock bag, the ...
Delicious links - the Hot Red Summer Edition. ...
Starting yesterday, Slow Food Nation has begun stripping up the sod in front of San Francisco's City Hall in preparation of planting a large victory garden. With food prices rising and arable land sh...
This may seem elemental to many of you, but we are constantly surprised by how many friends don't know how to use our simple, no-frills corkscrew. Blame it on the Rabbit and other easy-open wine contr...
OK, we need some help here. We have never understood the appeal of a monogrammed steak brand. Is it for the grillmaster who already has everything? Is there some deep satisfaction in burning your init...
Most newer gas grills come equipped with an internal thermometer so you can keep an eye on the temperature.
But if your grill doesn't have one, it's not too hard to tell when your grill is hot enough...
Imagine never having to go to the grocery store again, and having all your food and household items delivered to you at the push of a button. This may be possible with Ikan....
A little lunchtime silliness, if you will...
We noticed this odd-shaped strawberry in our CSA pick-up and immediately thought of a friend who loved misshapen food. She was always going for the bagel...
We're on the same wavelength with the Times today; we're talking about grilling, and they're talking about picnics. Mark Bittman returns to his famously popular lists of quick dishes and pulls out 101...
We had the loveliest lunch a couple days ago. We gathered up all the leftover bites and nibbles left from two or three nights of dinner and plated them up for a lunch that was very satisfying. ...
The public grill is a staple at public parks, beaches and forest preserves. They're not usually much to look at, but they're sturdy and simple, albeit sometimes a little rusty. We've always shied away...
We stumbled upon Didi Davis and her line of artisan sugar blends, salts, oils, and other condiments when she appeared at the Copley Square farmer's market at the tail end of the season a few years bac...
One of the things we love about shopping at our local farmers' market every week is the sense of community; we've gotten to know our vendors and are familiar with their products throughout the seasons...
The Taste3 conference is being held in Napa on July 17-19 and it’s going to be an amazing three days. Now in it’s third year, this exciting and engaging conference brings together chefs, artists,...
As we told you yesterday, July is Grilling Month here at the Kitchn. And we realize that we may have lost many of you with that sentence — all of you who lack any outdoor space, even for a tiny char...
Apparently we're not the only ones getting hooked on cooking with beer!
The most recent issue of Beer Advocate Magazine features five "brew chefs" from around the country who have been experimenting ...
If you're looking for a gift for that beloved gourmet Francophile in your life or just feel like owning a bit of French soil, check out this truffle tree adoption scheme in Gascony, France. ...
It's Grilling Month, but we're going to kick off our daily grill recipes with one that actually calls for the broiler. You could do this on the grill too, but this can ease you into it (and let any of...
There may just be a new Top Crust in town, ladies and gentlemen!
We've loved and cherished our thin crust pizza dough for years, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little variety!
Last night we n...
Delicious bread for the grill and creative and clever tableware in our delicious links for the day....
What a neat idea. Supercook is a recipe search engine that allows you to enter ingredients that you have at home and finds recipes for you that contain the ingredients you have, so you don't have to ...
There are a lot of recipes for cobbler out there, and we've read and considered (and made) quite a few of them. But we keep coming back to a very basic family recipe that is almost no recipe at all. W...
It's grilling month, which means that we're all about bringing the indoors outside, and the outdoors in as we cook outside and soak up as much sunshine as we can. So this house tour from Los Angeles a...
To marinate or not to marinate? That is the question!
We hear a lot of differing opinions about whether marinating meat before grilling it helps or hinders, adds flavor or detracts.
What's your opin...
Well, summer's in full swing and the Fourth of July is only a few days away! We've been drinking a lot of iced tea, and this pitcher is perfect for it....
It looks like grey is officially the hot color of the year in cookware, what with Staub's limited edition titanium and graphite, and now Le Creuset's slate grey available exclusively at Williams-Sonom...
We once interviewed a mushroom farmer for a magazine article, and she said something we never forgot: "Mushrooms need a shower, not a bath."
And so, while every cook we see on TV tells us to wipe ea...
So, July is Grilling Month, and we're curious as to how many of you apartment-dwellers have grills of your own. Do you sneak one out onto the fire escape? Or do you have a little more space and a real...
We love receiving, reading, answering and posting your good questions, tips and ideas, but due to a problem with our online Contact Us form, your emails sent through that form have not been reaching t...
Last Sunday, we visited The Unfancy Food Show, the second annual Brooklyn fest that celebrates local and small food producers, coinciding with The Fancy Food Show taking place at the Javits Center thi...
July is all grilling, all month! We're excited to get outside and cook - and we're definitely not going to limit ourselves to beef and brats. There will be grilled vegetables as well as steaks - maybe...
Looking to expand your grilling repertoire but not sure where to start? A grilling class might be just the thing. Chicago cooking schools are firing up their grills this month and covering a variety o...
House Beautiful highlights a kitchen in every issue (we've written about the archives on their website before), but they are often big, aspirational spaces.
Well, this month's issue was all about sm...
Mouthfeel, noun: The physical sensation of food in the mouth.
This has always struck us as a rather odd and inelegant word. Drop it in conversation among non-foodies, and you're likely to get a lot o...
Marianne's Paris apartment didn't come with cabinets. "I didn't want to get an IKEA like everyone else," Marianne says. A DIY kind of gal, she started collecting empty wooden wine crates from supermar...
Our roundup of hot links today includes the most expensive bread slicer we've ever seen, plus what might be the most delicious cherry dessert we can imagine right now. ...
Lamb's quarters are a weed-like plant that most people don't realize is edible and tasty....
From reader K.:
Does anyone know the origin of this beehive crock featured on the Macy's Bridal Registry homepage? I've searched high and low for it on the internet, but I've haven't come up with a...
An article in this month's Gourmet kicks to the curb the idea that we humans sense the five tastes — salty, sweet, sour, bitter, plus umami — on specific parts of our tongues. According to the lat...
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Hot posts last week on The Kitchn included the best video game cake we...
English peas, which popped up in the farmer's markets in May, are on their way out of season, so we've been buying them up before they're gone....
We had several birthdays in the family last weekend, and we're left with quite a lot of birthday cake. Emma's post earlier today on breakfast reminded us of a secret pleasure: birthday cake for breakf...
One of our favorite ways to make serving a cake or cookies slightly more special is to put a paper doily on a plate. It's an old-fashioned touch; it feels sweet and a little extra special. So we love ...
My mystery box offered up several Little Gems lettuces last week, a most pleasant event indeed! We featured them here a few years back but they’re well worth revisiting.
Little Gems look like tiny...
If you're planning on hitting the park or the beach and want to keep your food and drinks chilled while you're there, you need an easy-to-carry, soft-sided travel cooler. And we like a little preppy t...
As we sprinkled cinnamon over our cottage cheese and fruit this morning and reminisced about the weekend, we were struck by how differently we eat on weekdays and weekends.
No matter how (or what or ...
These elegant, clean-lined Champagne Beakers from Belgian designer Pieter Stockmans have the tall, thin frame of a flute without the fuss. ...
We all eat somewhere around three meals a day, every day of our lives. Occasionally we get sick or we fast, and sometimes we go wild and eat the entire county. But basically it’s breakfast, lunch ...
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