It's one thing to cook in your kitchen and it's another thing to do all those little maintenance tasks that pile up and never seem to go away. Top of my list right now: Replace the liners in the cupb...
Goodness! It's nearly August already. That means we're entering the high season of summer bounty, and we can hardly wait to eat tomatoes and eggplants nearly every night of the week. What are you eati...
It was late spring when I visited Art and Chelsea's Chicago kitchen, and the vibe and tastes reflected that perfectly: Warm enough for an open balcony connecting from the kitchen and spring-y enough f...
A little twist on the old-fashioned wooden ice cream spoons that we used as kids... This image is from Martha Stewart Living, which offers a template for cutting your own spoon shapes with a paring kn...
Dukkah, an Egyptian spice blend of toasted nuts and seeds, has become a international favorite over the past few years, thanks to its popularity first in Australian restaurants and then among home coo...
Pavlovas can be tricky to make when it's hot and humid outside, but they are such a good dessert to serve with fresh summer fruit that it's worth the effort! They're light and airy, sweet without bein...
You know we love yellow kitchens. We have a nook in the kitchen that needs painting and we've been pondering a warm mustard yellow. Well, this kitchen may have decided us: we're smitten with this colo...
Scallops are like the candy of the sea: we're always in the mood for them and we can always have just one more! They used to be a special treat that we only had when eating out, but then we discovered...
Porcelain canisters, gorgeous raw salads, and a candy that (get this!) Gourmet claims tastes better than a real mango!...
Elizabeth's post on Wednesday asking What Dish Can You Not Stop Making This Summer got me thinking about my favorite summer dishes.
As a food writer, I often am making new "dishes," usually actual r...
We've talked about how much we love our SIGG water bottles; they're non-plastic but still quite light, and sturdy too. We also have given a lot of these bottles as gifts, and we may return to that thi...
City: Baltimore
Population: 2.7 million, metro area
Local specialties: Crabs, pit beef, lake trout, tiramisu (allegedly invented in Baltimore!)
Markets, artisans, farms, and groceries: Where do you s...
When I visited Tokyo for the first time last month, I enjoyed quite a few memorable food and drink-related experiences: watching a lightning-fast 5 am tuna auction, shopping at a depachika, eating the...
Q: I love browsing the Ethiopian grocery stores near my house but I often come away empty handed or with a random tub of lentils, dried beans, or a little berbere. All of them have bulk items in tubs ...
If you want an impressive side dish (that really isn't as hard as it looks), we think this is the one... ...
Look at these colorful knives! Would you like knives this colorful in your kitchen? ...
Porchetta, noun: A Southern Italian dish of roasted suckling pig stuffed with wild fennel and garlic
Friends of ours who have traveled in Italy come back singing praises about this iconic Italian dis...
America’s unsung dinnertime heroes are invited to test their skills in the fourth annual Rías Baixas Albariño Recipe Pairing Contest, a challenge that pairs home chefs’ original recipes with Rí...
Is it possible for bread to be adorable? If anything could make us think so, it's this loaf of bread we spied at Perfect Pandas. Actually more like a cross between cake and bread, it involves cocoa, g...
Did you know that salad really isn't a summer food? Yes, we can find tidy greens in the supermarket year round, but most lettuce varieties — as well as our beloved arugula — really don't l...
When we talk about kitchen renovations and remodels, we are usually looking at kitchens that have been modernized or brought up to date. Well, this kitchen is an exception: it went both forward...
Q: I was hoping for some advice from the devout vegetarians among your readers. I'm hosting a veggie friend (dairy no, but eggs yes) for brunch but have no idea about what to make.
Do you have any s...
This wouldn't work for every soup in the book, but there are certain ones that could be easily thickened up and recycled, in a way, as a dip. Don't believe us? We've actually thought it through......
Mangoes, cinnamon apple, and wax jambu.
The Redland Fruit & Spice Park is located about 25 miles southwest of Miami, in Homestead, which is a major agricultural region in South Florida. Due to the s...
I became a vegetarian at age five, thus passing up the opportunity to eat many of the world's strangest foods (or delicacies, depending on how you look at it). No octopus terrine or alligator sausage ...
Welcome to July's Open Thread at The Kitchn. This is Escapes Month, so we'll be talking about bringing vacation back home in the form of inspiration for your cooking. What are you most inspired to coo...
Whether you're traveling in Asia or at a friend's house for dinner, trying a new food is its own kind of culinary adventure! The thing is, though, sometimes stepping outside our comfort zone to try a ...
Falafel is one of our favorite Middle Eastern snacks, so once we had homemade pita, it seemed natural to progress to homemade falafel! We weren't in the mood for deep-frying, so we hunted around for r...
Ethnic markets are fabulous places. You can find offbeat ingredients that are integral to making authentic dishes that you can't find anywhere else. But what happens when you walk in the doors and fin...
PB&J pops, with graham crackers! How can you resist?...
City: Los Angeles, California
Population: 3.8 million
Local specialties: Fresh produce, ethnic cuisines, fusion food
There are two versions of Los Angeles ... or hundreds. On the surface, there is H...
If we weren't already thinking about cooking seafood on a lazy summer evening, we are now after browsing this week's food sections. We've got recipes that will take you to Louisiana and the Eastern Sh...
Last week we highlighted a surprisingly sophisticated hot pink kitchen. Now we just stumbled across another pink-flavored kitchen from our own archives. What do you think of hot pink in the kitchen? ...
Since my return from my Greek wine trip, I just can't seem to get enough Greek food or wine. I have been experimenting with all sorts of grilled vegetables and fish as well as numerous salads. What I ...
We know that many of you just love your Microplanes, so if you've been waiting for a Microplane model that can handle cabbage, potatoes, and other chunky things, this is it. ...
In the past 24 hours, we've read two articles about this technique—one from Mark Bittman in yesterday's Times and one in Bon Appétit. Must be a trend. Both articles insist this method of p...
Do you use a silpat for your baking? These flexible, reusable sheets jumped from professional kitchens to home kitchens a few years back, and now we can't imagine baking without one. They're one of th...
Q: I am going to attempt an ice cream cake from scratch for my boyfriend's birthday. I have an idea of how to proceed, but I was also wondering if anyone has any helpful suggestions.
I plan to follo...
Greek food is sounding particularly good here in the hottest days of summer, so we were really fascinated to see these old-fashioned "spoon sweets" at Serious Eats. Every week we bring you our favorit...
This print of a jello mold with various inappropriate items is a fantastic piece for the kitchen! We love the slightly kitschy 60s flair of the shape and colors, and the playful choice of various "ali...
Just got back from a camping honeymoon in Iceland, and I am here to attest to the fact that one can eat very well without a kitchen or a restaurant!...
We tend to be creatures of habit when it comes to cooking. Find a new recipe that we love and make it until we (or others in our household) cry uncle. That's especially true in the summer, the only ti...
Q: I'm throwing a cocktail party on the roof deck of my building in August for about 20 people. I can't grill, and am looking for suggestions as to what to serve. It's far enough away from my apartmen...
With faraway travel in mind this month, we have been watching online videos of the Australian television program "Food Safari," which takes viewers into multicultural kitchens across the country. We r...
Mention Irish beer on this side of the pond and most of us will automatically think of dark stouts like Guinness. But the country has a long tradition with another, very different kind of beer as well...
Take a look at this bowl; it's designed to be the perfect container for a bowl of phở. ...
I'm no Anthony Bourdain who goes seeking out the most bizarre and flashy food experiences possible, but if you put it in front of me, I'll try anything once. Tongue salami, sure. Dry-aged beef, defini...
Our favorite garden blogger, Margaret Roach of A Way To Garden, is spearheading a fun summer event called Summer Fest 2009 — a celebration of summer gardening, cooking, and fresh food.
One of ...
We received mixed reviews after sharing our thoughts on the Cake Love cookbook last week. We'd tested 5 or 6 cakes from the book with extreme success, but those who live near the bakeries were in dis...
Last weekend, I took a drive to the Indiana/Michigan border along the southern tip of Lake Michigan in search of blueberries. This is serious fruit country. In addition to 15 pounds of blueberries, I ...
City: Kansas City
Population: 476,000 (2 million metro)
Local specialties: BBQ and meat in general, local produce, dairy
When you think about chowing down in Cow Town, the first thing that comes to ...
It may rival goat cheese, feta, and ricotta as one of the best cheeses to have on hand during hot summer months, when lighter, fresh cheeses make the best accompaniment to grilled food and summer vege...
When I was a child, we were mad for all things "aerospace." The USA had put a man on the moon and a couple of years later every child sat down to a glass of Tang at the breakfast table. I was too ...
Q: I have a good friend from Texas who is getting married at the end of this month and then moving to Switzerland. I am making her a cookbook with traditional Texas recipes.
It takes a certain knack...
What was cooking a year ago this week? There was cold frozen yogurt sorbet and watermelon agua fresca. There were kitchen sneak peeks and tours, including one of cookbook author Joanne Weir's gorgeous...
More Julie & Julia! We know, we've written about this movie more than once, and it hasn't even come out yet. But the Times has an interesting article about something that may play a bigger role th...
Remember our somewhat unsatisfactory attempt at the Pasta alla Norma from Cook's Illustrated? Well, based on your suggestions, recommendations, and encouragements, we decided to give it another go. As...
I actually do this all the time when we order pizza: simply tear the box in half, divide the pizza in two, and eat it right off the cardboard. (It helps that I'm a voracious eater and can consume, at ...
We got you talking about the ten most useless kitchen gadgets last week, and now it's time to weigh in on the 10 most useful gadgets. Here are our picks; what would you choose? ...
We may have mentioned that we have ten pounds of sour cherries burning a hole in our fridge. We've been whittling away at them with weekend clafoutis, sour cherry pancakes and baked cherries with haze...
Did anyone have the chance to make some homemade barbecue sauce over the weekend? If you did, you're probably eager for more excuses to slather on the sauce even when ribs aren't on the menu! Here are...
We ate this last night for dinner—fresh South Carolina shrimp seasoned with thyme, ancho chile powder, oregano, and smoked paprika. And the best part was that someone else cooked it for us......
In last week's post about MSG, we mentioned one of our favorite monosodium glutamate-containing products: Maggi seasoning sauce. We don't usually discuss specific brands of condiments on The Kitchn, b...
Q: I'm shopping for a KitchenAid stand mixer and I'd like know The Kitchn community's opinion of the tilt-head models versus the bowl-lift models. ...
We've been cooking with a cast iron skillet for years now and we absolutely love it. We take care to clean it properly and are religious about keeping it seasoned. But in all these years, we've always...
In today's Delicious Links: Very cute cookies, powdered peanut butter, and knives safe for little ones. ...
When Maxwell and I went to the press preview for House Beautiful's re-creation of Ina Garten's country kitchen in Rockefeller Plaza last week, I was reminded by the lamps on her gigantic counter top h...
One of the favorite things around our house, (especially during the summer months) is salsa. We can't get enough and there's always a jar of it in the fridge waiting for a fresh corn chip (thanks to ...
City: San Francisco (with a few bonus East Bay suggestions)
Population: 7 million in Bay Area
Local specialties: Sand dabs, Dungeness crab, goat cheese from Sonoma, abalone, artichokes, Tomales Bay ...
The strangest thing I've ever eaten is a miracle fruit. Well, that's not entirely true. I should say that the strangest thing I've ever eaten is a tablet of freeze-dried miracle fruit-derived miraculi...
Q: I would like your suggestion for a chocolate recipe. I am entering a chocolate lovers' contest at our county fair this year and need some inspiration as I develop a chocolate recipe that will hold ...
It is best to store spices away from light and heat, but often that means they are somewhere, well, dark. If you don't have a drawer for your spices, then they are probably in a cupboard or pantry, an...
New York City residents, take note. Fresh Direct is ditching their boxes. Fresh Direct's delivered-to-your-door grocery service has grown enormously in the last seven years of serving the New York met...
I haven't traveled to many faraway lands and eaten exotic food I couldn't pronounce that may or may not have been illegal in the US. I have, however, lived in New Orleans, where alligator is on the me...
Tiered, frilly wedding cakes can be a little daunting for the home baker, but what about cupcakes instead? ...
Vive la France! If you missed Bastille Day earlier this month, here is your second chance to celebrate francophone culture! Good Food this week was all about France and its food culture - or possible ...
One of the quickest things to be "lost" when living in a small space is the dining room. A table and chairs for eating take up lots of space and for a small household, having a "formal" spot for eatin...
The annual release of a new IKEA catalog is always an event in the world of home decor and renovation. The low prices, unfussy design and sheer scale of IKEA mean that they will always be an op...
Let me say it straight up: This is one of those not so pretty recipes. Who wants to look at a pile of grilled chicken? But it makes up for its lack of photogenic quality by being really, really delici...
We envy Dorie Greenspan for many reasons: her baking genius, for one, but there's also the fact that she splits her time between New York City, Paris, and a country house in Connecticut. On Bon App&ea...
In our kitchen, we treat blackberries like precious gems. We dream of living near wild bramble bushes, from which we might gather bucketsful of blackberries to make copious amounts of jam and pies. Un...
Here's one more product from the department of things-that-don't-need-any-more-sugar-added-to-them-thank-you-very-much: Fizzy bottled milk with, of course, an extra scoop of sweetness. Coca-Cola is cu...
Here's one more thing we can do with all that fresh fruit we can't seem to resist buying! Try pureeing a few berries or a half a peach and whisking that into your favorite vinaigrette. It's easy and a...
Packing food for a picnic in the park and packing food for a trip to the beach require a different set of rules. For starters, there's the sand......
We've all been there. We're baking a fresh fruit pie or bubbly casserole, and we open the oven door to see that some of the filling has oozed over the edge of the pan - and right onto the oven floor. ...
Yes, that's right: Oreo cookie cookies. Plus, a truly unitasking gadget. ...
I wish I could say the most peculiar food I've ever eaten was something fabulous like bugs from a rotting log, or Tofu that smells like a gym locker. Although I've tried plenty of off beat things lik...
Q: Because I'm human, I love Nutella. I really want to try to make it myself, but all the recipes I've found call for grinding hazelnuts yourself. I don't have a food processor (I make pesto in a coff...
City: London, England
Population: 7.6 million
Local specialties: Everything from traditional Cockney fare to handmade artisan breads, preserves, and chocolates
We have never heard anyone say they we...
Take a look at this new measuring cup, about to be released by Taylor. It's such a great idea; now that we've seen it we're shocked that we haven't seen this done before. It's a measuring cup that has...
It's late July and unless you live in San Francisco where it was 60 and foggy this weekend, you probably don't want to stand over a hot stove today. And if you've planted a big garden, you may be loo...
Last week we shared a few of our edible escapes with you. What's an edible escape? Well, it could be that one reliably indulgent treat that you eat (or drink) to give you a momentary uplift in daily l...
Those of us who live in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic need to enjoy our tomatoes while we can. A fungus called late blight—a strain of which caused the Irish potato famine—is rapidly destroying lo...
Saltwater taffy will be forever linked in our minds to vacations at the beach, hot weather, and long stretches of free time. We can't remember ever having it outside of that context! It's been years s...
When we heard Outstanding in the Field is coming to our hometown soon, we headed on over to their website to learn more. While there, we were bowled over by the varied arrangements of long outdoor din...
'Oh, domesticity! The wonder of dinner plates and cream pitchers. You know your friends by their ornaments. You want everything. If Mrs. A. has her mama's old jelly mold, you want one, too, and everyt...
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