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"You Don't Get Fat on Food You Pray Over"
Quotes from The New York Times Magazine

In this week's Times Sunday Magazine, the annual Food Issue, Michael Pollan shares his favorite reader-submitted food rules. We love this one for its sweet sentiment—no matter what your religious co...

Top Chef Las Vegas: Like No Dinner Party We've Ever Had

We felt right at home watching last night's episode of Top Chef. First, they highlighted a website we've mentioned several times before. Then, they highlighted our favorite subject matter of all: home...

Are You a Foodie or a Cook?

According to Michael Ruhlman, there is a difference! In a recent blog post, he describes foodies as those who love the shiniest equipment and the newest ingredients, and follow the antics of top chefs...

Taking It to the Streets
Community Cooking Events in San Francisco

Home cooking is often a somewhat isolated event. We usually cook for ourselves, our family and a handful of friends or colleagues. On occasion, a stranger appears in the mix, but usually they've bee...

Weekend Meditation: Influences

Here in The Kitchn we're all about home cooking. But home cooking, especially in this age of interwebs and world travel, food networks and glossy monthly magazines, is deeply influenced by things bey...

Weekend Cooking: Stay Motivated!

One of the only problems, if you can call it that, with the weather turning so beautiful is that we'd rather just spend our free time outside, so our motivation to spend it cooking indoors literally f...

How Low Can You Go? NPR Makes a Push for Frugal Dinners

Looking for some inspiration for budget-friendly meals? Check out all the entries in National Public Radio's "How Low Can You Go?" contest last week - there are over 300 of them! Coriander meatballs w...

Recession Eating & Cooking: Really Cooking at Home More?

Over the past few months, we've seen articles pop up in all the national papers about how people are cooking at home more in order to save money during the depression. We cheer a little every time we ...

Home Cooking: Laurie Colwin on Luxury and Frugality

"I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato. But there are things it is worth spending money on. ...

Kitchen Keeping: Most Memorable Advice?

What is the best or the most memorable advice that you have ever received on organizing, cleaning, shopping, cooking in, and just generally keeping a happy kitchen? And perhaps more importantly - do...

Have You Ever Priced a Home-Cooked Meal?

When you cook dinner you don't pay a check. Or a delivery guy. And you probably didn't go to the grocery store for those exact ingredients and those ingredients only. So it's not the most logical thin...

Good Quote: Laurie Colwin on Home Food

"I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in. The best dinner party I ever went to was a black-tie affair to celebrate a book, catered by the author's sister. When we sat down in our long dress...

Sense of Place: Southern Food and Cuisine

The culture of southern cooking is all about hospitality and abundance - so pull up a chair, pile your plate high, and dig in!...

Great and Small: What Makes Your Kitchen Special?

Home cooking isn't always elaborate meals and new ingredients. Sometimes it's just about the little things that makes us glad to be in the kitchen - like this adorable salt shaker! What makes your kit...

Kitchen Challenge: Tiramisu Tips and Help?

We recently talked about our challenging recipes - the kitchen nemesis that we can't get right no matter what. Here's one more: tiramisu....

Good Quote: Laurie Colwin on Home Cooking

It's Home Cooking month here at The Kitchn, and our title is partially an homage to Laurie Colwin and her marvelous book, Home Cooking: A Writer In the Kitchen. Here is a quote from Colwin in the piec...

Home Cooking: Improvised Cookbook Holder

Our new kitchen is slightly bigger than the last one, but it's still short on precious counter space. This just means there are more opportunities to improvise! ...

Home Cooking: How Do You Boil Water?

One of our favorite recipes at Epicurious is, essentially, a recipe for boiled water. It has nearly 800 comments - some amused, some indignant, some clever, some silly. ...

From the Files: Roast Chicken!

Roast chicken may be the most quintessential piece of home cooking that we know. That savory roasting smell, the ease of slipping a bird into the oven, the juicy meat and warm bread and vegetables tha...

Home Cooking: Sarah's Bibim Bap

We told you yesterday that September is Home Cooking month at The Kitchn. Here's a good example of home cooking to kick things off, from reader Sarah. ...

Eating Local, Eating Well: Home Cooking In September

Welcome to September at The Kitchn. How was your summer? Ours was hectic, and it seems like we're not alone in this. Vacations, holidays, August heat, and summer slowdown make kitchen time dwindle. ...