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Weekend Meditation: Teaching Each Other

“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.” — Wendell Berry When I enjoy someone's cooking I invariably say to them "hey, let's cook together sometime!" I could ask...

Weekend Meditation: Cooking and Eating

When Gourmet was shuttered this week, the food blogs were ablaze with the news. Here in The Kitchn, we had a number of comments on our post. One in particular caught my eye. The commentor said that...

Confidence In The Kitchen & Cooking Without Apology

Judging by the empty theater this past weekend, my family were the only ones who hadn't seen Julie & Julia yet. After curbing the urge to go home and cook everything in the house, I realized the gre...

Tell Us: What Do You Do While You Wait?

Even for the quickest meals, nothing ever times up perfectly. There are always little bits of down time here and there while we wait for water to boil or onions to soften or some meat to thaw. What do...

Do You Cook Less In The Summer?

Even though summer is filled with an abundance of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables, it also brings higher temperatures. When the mercury is rising outside, do you still cook as much as you do dur...

Weekend Meditation: Having Fun!

I'm just about out the door this morning, on my way to participating in a community canning project. I'm really looking forward to spending the day with a group of fellow canning geeks. We're making...

What's Your Most Invaluable Kitchen Tool?

We have spent a great deal of time covering some of our essential kitchen tools, as well looking at lovely galleries of our readers' favorite kitchen things. It seems like the best of these tools are...

Weekend Meditation: The Guilty Epicurean

The kitchen for me is usually a place of joy and refuge where I can be creative, experimental, expressive and accomplished. Even better, it's also an ordinary place where the most basic of human acti...

Survey: How Many Days a Week Do You Cook?

We write daily about ingredients and recipes and well-used kitchens — all of the elements that go into a good meal. But we're curious about a very basic question, one we've asked before but want to ...