Did you know that Thomas Jefferson came back from Italy with plans for a pasta machine? Or that Theodore Roosevelt drank about a gallon of coffee every day? These are just a couple facts that from the...
Although residents of Brunswick, Georgia, and Brunswick County, Virginia, both claim to this recipe as their own, we can probably all agree that it is the quintessential recipe for lean times. It's a ...
Clabber, noun: soured milk Back before there was baking powder to use as a quick leavener in baking, there was clabber. This was something that every farm wife or person with access to fresh milk cou...
We just got our first real snowfall here in Boston, and now we're suddenly craving muesli. This is a simple yet hearty breakfast brought to us by the Swiss - who mean business when it comes to fueling...
We came across this spiced and spiked after-dinner coffee while researching traditional dishes from Louisiana and haven't been able to stop thinking about it! With flavors of orange, clove, and bran...
How appropriate that we've come full circle on our tour of regional American cooking right before Thanksgiving! Thanks, everyone, for sharing your own insight and stories (and corrections!) along the ...
I grew up in the South, but both my parents are Yankees, so it's always been "stuffing" in my family. My Southern neighbors called it "dressing." What about you? ...
Omnivore Books on Food is a new bookstore in San Francisco. Housed in a former butcher shop in Noe Valley, they specialize in books about food, particularly vintage and hard-to-find books....
California is the birthplace of fusion cuisine and the local/sustainable food movement - not to mention diet fads galore! And with so many cultures converging in a place that can support so much great...
Among the most treasured items on our bookshelves is a collection of volumes from Persephone Books. Elegant in their simplicity, these little volumes have identical dove-grey jackets and lovely endpap...
While it's not a technically a pie, we couldn't let our Best Pie Bake Off go by without at least giving a nod to this New England classic! Check it out......
Like Florida and Alaska, we felt that the Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana deserved a mention all their own. Here you see a blending of Native American, French, Spanish, and African influences t...
Whoopie pies tend to show up more frequently on food blogs and in magazines this time of year because, for some reason, pumpkin ones are a popular variation. If you're not familiar with the whoopie pi...
What does harvest look like? In our part of the world it looks like fields of dried cornstalks, trees full of scarlet apples, and pumpkin patches. In other parts of the world, harvest time may look ve...
These days, shoppers have the option of choosing heritage or heirloom foods. But what do these words mean and how do they affect you? You may be surprised to learn it isn't just a frivolous fad; our...
Raclette is a firm, pungent cheese from Switzerland that is the center of a popular winter social event in the Alpine parts of Europe. The cheese is made of cow's milk and is salty, and can come in v...
Al Dente; adjective, Italian: Literally, "to the tooth." In practice, this means cooked just enough to still be firm, where the center still remains a bit under-cooked and the pasta still offers resis...
Last week in our post about Straus Family Creamery, a reader commented: ok, i recently purchased the straus milk and was wondering what you're suppose to do with the cream top? do you put it over som...
We first read about gnocchi day on the menu of an Argentine restaurant, which only serves the dish on the 29th of every month. And since we're still celebrating Escapes Month here at AT and the Kitchn...
Tired of oil and vinegar in your salads? Want to try something different? Try verjus. It's delicious!...
On this past week's episode of Splendid Table, Steve Jenkins of Fairway Market reminds us that there was indeed a time before foodies were foodies. He knows because was there to when it all began!...
Have you ever wanted to find a cookbook from your grandmother's or great-grandmother's generation? Or maybe a cookbook that's out of print, from a restaurant long gone, or from a cultural generation ...
Recently we bought a package of dried fava beans and made this delicious recipe that goes back thousands of years in Egypt....
Father of the cocktail, “Professor” Jerry Thomas was the consummate showman, a kind of early “flair” bartender. He wore diamonds. Lots of them. He hosted a pair of frisky white rats on his sho...
Last Thursday I gave a controversial assignment as part of Week Two of The Kitchn Cure: I asked you to pitch your processed foods. And the questions started rolling in about what, exactly, processe...
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