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Steak Is Dull and Squash Tastes Spoiled: A Chef Shares His Experience Losing His Tastebuds After COVID-19People
I am considered a long-hauler, someone who no longer has COVID-19 but still experiencing lingering symptoms. After 126 days I still have unpredictable fatigue, pain and numbness in my feet and legs, shaky hands, blurred vision, insomnia, brain fog, and lack a sense of taste and smell.
Nov 2, 2020
My Father Is an Amazing Chef and the Only Pizza He Loves Is from CostcoGroceries
My father was a New York chef. But his love for Costco pizza led to my losing faith in his taste and to trying pizza across Italy in a mission for redemption.
Oct 28, 2020
In My Family, Love Smells Like French Fries
Personal Essay
I wouldn’t change my greasy childhood for anything — not even a vacation to Disney World every year.
Oct 10, 2020
The Soup Queen of Seattle on Beans, the Pandemic, and Feeding Her CommunityPeople
I had only heard the word “coronavirus” mentioned a few times when I started to observe small changes in my routine.
Oct 3, 2020
This Year for Yom Kippur, I’m Making the Only Recipe My Grandmother Ever Wrote Down
Yom Kippur
This year, the 25-hour fast when food and drink are forbidden seems even more daunting. What will we talk about, if we can’t talk about food?
Sep 26, 2020
The Kids Are Asleep and the World Is on Fire: A Love Letter to Uncool White Russians
Personal Essay
"I took a sip and melted into the couch. Never had I felt so held by a beverage."
Sep 25, 2020
The Lunchables Generation Grows Up
Back to School 2020
Every generation has food products that touch that tender part of themselves. You bring up Handi-Snacks with older Gen X people and they will stop everything and tell you how those Ur-Lunchables got through them a lot.
Sep 17, 2020
This School Year Simply Doesn’t Work Without Meal Planning. Here Are My Favorite Easy Meals.
Back to School 2020
Maybe Sandra Lee, who I scoffed at for years, was onto something?
Sep 17, 2020
How Unschooling Unlocked a Whole New World of Lunch
Back to School
Unschooling rose to the surface in a murky sea of options like the triangle in a Magic 8-Ball and said: Signs point to yes.
Sep 17, 2020
My Daughter’s Quaker Classroom Is Outdoors. What Do You Feed a Kid in Mittens?
Back to School 2020
While my daughter is delighted at the prospect of going back to in-person school, I am apprehensive.
Sep 17, 2020
My Daughter Desperately Misses Her School Friends. A Virtual Lunch Period Changed Everything.
Back to School 2020
One day, as we drove past her school on the way to the post office, my daughter burst into tears. When I asked her if she was crying because she missed her friends, all she could do was let out a wailing “YEAH!”.
Sep 17, 2020
The Pizza Sandwich That Finally Made Me Feel Like Family
Personal Essay
I was expecting the usual foreign-to-me food, but then my aunt started a fire and pulled out four unfamiliar iron squares with long rods attached at the ends.
Sep 12, 2020
My Mom and I Don’t Agree on Much, but We’ll Always Have Pepper Steak
Personal Essay
"The first message I sent was to ask for her shrimp and lobster sauce recipe, which I approached with trepidation, considering the last text to her was a happy new year wish three months prior."
Sep 4, 2020
Who Made the Potato Salad?
Personal Essay
"For many Black people, it’s about keeping the recipe alive because of the story that it tells."
Sep 1, 2020
The Golden, Greasy, Glorious Power of Tater Tots in This Dumpster-Fire Year
Personal Essay
Standing in the frozen section at Target, a kerchief tied to my face, newly unemployed and adrift in a world I no longer understood, grief took on a new shape: slightly cylindrical, stuffed into a bulging bag, cold and primary-colored.
Aug 20, 2020
To Picard with Love: How France’s Frozen Wonderland Became My Lockdown Hero
Freezer Week
Imagine the frozen aisle at Trader Joe’s — the frozen chests plus the small assortment of snacks, chips, and canned goods organized on top — and multiply that by five and you get Picard.
Aug 12, 2020
In the Pandemic, I Mourn My Grandmother Through the Pierogies She Taught MePeople
"It seemed as if her death was less significant than the ones making headlines, even though it didn’t feel that way to me."
Aug 7, 2020
I'm a Biscuit Geek, and These Epic Biscuits Are by Far the Best
Kitchn Love Letters
Here's what makes them so special.
Jul 29, 2020
Nigella Lawson’s Lemon Linguine Is the Carby, Creamy, Cheesy Recipe That Reminds Me How Much I Love Cooking
Personal Essay
My obsession with this dish is as boundless as my obsession with Nigella (an inordinately unhealthy amount).
Jul 29, 2020
My Toddler Refused to Eat Anything Even Mildly Spicy. Then I Made Chrissy Teigen’s Miso Noodles.
Personal Essay
The older kid felt that Kraft macaroni and cheese was too spicy, would never eat it, and the younger, who imitated her every move, would never eat anything her sister wouldn’t. Until now.
Jul 21, 2020
In My Divorce, I Lost the Family Zucchini
Personal Essay
And because it’s never just food, this vegetable was, surprisingly, one of the losses that hurt the most.
Jul 17, 2020
I Bought a Car at Costco During a Global Pandemic — Here’s How It Went
Shopping
No awkward negotiations over price!
Jul 13, 2020
My Mom Hacked Cake Mix to Make the Best Birthday Cake EverSkills
My mom's "legendary" birthday cake was actually doctored-up cake mix. Here's how she made It incredible.
Jul 14, 2020
How the Pandemic Reconnected Me to ShabbatPeople
As the days and weeks pile up like a run-on sentence punctuated only by an endless stream of commas, Shabbat is a period.
Jun 26, 2020
I Knew Dating a Chef Would Be Amazing. What I Didn’t Realize Was How Much It Would Change the Way I Cook.People
Here are some of the most important lessons I’ve learned.
Jun 18, 2020
The Best Balm Is a PicnicPeople
When I am feeling weary from the demands of life, especially now during this global pandemic, I make a meal and get outside, even if I’m just by myself.
Jun 17, 2020
It Wasn’t Enough for Me to Come Out as Gay. I Needed to Come Out as a Baker.
Personal Essay
I resisted coming out as a baker — until I met my chosen family.
Jun 16, 2020
Meal Prepping with My Mom While I Was Pregnant Taught Me About More than Just CookingPeople
My mom drove to my house with bags of ingredients and piles of recipes in tow, and we got to work.
Jun 10, 2020
I Ate Like a Gilmore Girl for a Week and Here’s What HappenedPeople
I might not live in Stars Hollow or have a coffee shop as great as Luke’s around (who does?), but I was willing to get creative to make it work.
May 27, 2020
The Two Signs of a Great RecipePeople
After I graduated culinary school as a naive 21-year-old, I thought I could handle anything that came at me in the kitchen. But then I started having problems.
May 26, 2020
How I Learned to Love Grilling (After 2 Decades of Avoiding It)People
It took a move across the country to get me to change my mind.
May 21, 2020
I Was Diagnosed with OCD, and Baking Sourdough Is Helping Me Deal with ItPeople
Instead of the frustrating alienation that OCD usually produces in me, I feel connected to a community who cares as much as I care to get this one specific, ancient process right.
May 15, 2020
How My Mom Is Helping Me Survive the Pandemic from Thousands of Miles Away
Personal Essay
"While chopping onions, sautéing garlic, and cubing bell peppers, we catch up on neighborhood gossip, exchange notes on TV shows to watch, and daydream about our next holiday together."
May 9, 2020
Iftar, Samosas, and the Month of Infinite Blessings Lived on ZoomPeople
Preparing and enjoying iftar dishes has been one of the major ways my family has conjured the Ramadan spirit in our home this year.
May 5, 2020
I’m So Sick and Tired of Cooking. This Is the One Thing That’s Actually Helping.Skills
It's making a difference in the way I eat, and helps me feel like I have a handle on the day, even for just a little while.
Apr 29, 2020
Scraps Are the Only Winners in This Pandemic
Personal Essay
With the luxury of frequent trips to the grocery store for missing ingredients gone, and the added long hours in the house to babysit slow-cooked dishes or breads that need to be folded or kneaded every few hours, Americans have suddenly changed how they cook.
Apr 17, 2020
Making Chicken Stock Is My Source of Comfort Right Now. Here’s My Favorite Method.
Staying Home
Making it is as nourishing as eating it.
Apr 17, 2020
The Best Thing About Sheltering in New Jersey Is My In-Laws’ Manicotti
Staying Home
The stuffed pasta is a family-favorite, passed down from generation to generation, and it always comes with stories.
Apr 17, 2020
Snacking Cakes Are the Best Cakes to Make Right Now. Here’s Why.
Kitchn Love Letters
Snacking cakes are perfect for the moment we've found ourselves in now, with more time to bake and fewer ingredients to bake with.
Apr 14, 2020
The Only Normal Thing for Me This Easter Is Pizza
Stay-Home Cooking
This Easter is different, except for one thing: I'll be eating pizza.
Apr 9, 2020
Bad Pay, Long Hours, and a Little Hope: How Instacart Shoppers Feel About Their Jobs Right NowGroceries
"I hope we remember that when so many of our systems failed us and failed to protect us, it was the people we once dismissed as low-skilled labor who didn’t let us down."

Apr 4, 2020
Why Banana Bread Is the Official Comfort Food of the Coronavirus Quarantine
What We Cook Now
To understand banana bread’s new role in these strange times, we turned to all manner of baker and asked: What does banana bread stand for when you’re stuck in quarantine?
Apr 2, 2020
I’m Single and Have a Costco Membership — Here’s Why It’s Worth ItGroceries
"I'm single, I have a Costco Membership , and it's absolutely worth it — for my budget, for my health, and for my shopping habits."
Mar 5, 2020
Why I Don’t Need to Have My Grandmother’s Biscuits Again
Personal Essay
Hali Bey Ramdene hasn't had her grandmother's biscuits since she was 7 years old, but the memory is just as delicious.
Feb 26, 2020
What My Parents Really Meant When They Said “Just Bring What You Can”
Personal Essay
Growing up right outside of Houtson, Texas, Jesse Sparks' home was always filled with people from his parents' community: coworkers, church friends, even neighbors. Here's the entertaining philosophy that has stayed with him since he was seven years old.
Feb 21, 2020
I Broke Up With My Boyfriend of Eight Years and He Ruined One of My Favorite RecipesPeople
"I had invested nearly all of my twenties into a relationship, and yet here I was, still making dinner for one alone in my kitchen."
Feb 12, 2020
My Greatest Wedding Gift Was 50 Recipes for a Happy MarriageRecipes
When Laura Leavitt planned her wedding in 2015, she sent out a request with her RVSP cards: "The back of the card is blank for you to share a favorite family recipe with the soon-to-be newlyweds, if you like.” Here's what she learned in her first year of marriage.
Feb 11, 2020
The Holiday Pasta Dish I Only Eat Once a YearPeople
In my family, the star course for our Feast of the Seven Fishes celebration for Christmas Eve has also always been its most humble.
Dec 19, 2019
What Making a Sweet Potato Pie with My Grandma Taught Me About Being Black in the SouthPeople
Sweet potato pie is a classic Thanksgiving dish, and for one writer it helped reshape a complicated relationship with the South.
Nov 26, 2019
How Do You Celebrate Thanksgiving When You’re Grieving?People
The November after my brother's death left us grasping at straws; we had no idea what to do or where to go in his absence.
Nov 23, 2019
The Old-School Secret to My Grandma’s Thanksgiving Mashed PotatoesSkills
It’s the sort of cooking tip that is sometimes frowned upon amid today’s predominant fresh-is-best philosophy.
Nov 20, 2019