How 2020 changed cooking for the better
I remember the last thing I cooked before the shutdown last year. I had made my baking friend Edd Kimber's Salted Black Cocoa Sablés, and as I served the cookies...
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Make an Easter feast using fresh spring ingredients
Easter heralds the beginning of spring. The holiday lands with the arrival of the season's best ingredients, and I love paying tribute to them in a feast befitting this rejuvenatory...
A beautiful tart to showcase the scariest of fruits
Every January, I anticipate buying nothing but citrus. Walking the farmers market aisles, I get too excited by the sight of it to resist grabbing as much as I can...
Classic fluffy pancakes are best when you just do less
A common complaint about making pancakes is that you have to cook them one at a time, and by the time the last one is cooked the first ones are...
The best mayonnaises you can buy
In an Instagram post over the summer, I offered up my brand preference for mayonnaise, a seemingly innocent directive while making a simple tomato sandwich. Little did I know that...
For garlic powder, a working seasoning finally gets its turn in the spice limelight
Before the shutdown, most food media content was geared toward foodies and cooking enthusiasts, a community with a strong desire to learn about all the esoteric ingredients and equipment that...
A pitmaster’s secret to the best pulled pork at home
At Heritage Barbecue in San Juan Capistrano, California, pitmaster and co-owner Daniel Castillo, who owns the restaurant with his wife Brenda, applies a carnitas method to the process of cooking...
For summer stone fruit, have your cake and eat it too
While summer in the "before times" may have meant swimsuits and beach days to most people, to me it only ever meant it was time to eat all the stone...
Summer squash reaches its peak in the air fryer
A few years ago, I wrote a cookbook on air frying. I vowed from the beginning to only develop recipes that benefited from being cooked in a special gadget by...
Chili, the way you like it, is the easiest route to dinner
Several years ago, my partner and I spent a month in San Antonio, where his family lives. We were both unemployed at the time, so we spent the days driving...