"Take two of the best classic deli sandwiches and combine them." [Original artwork and photographs: Hawk Krall] Past Weeks' Dogs Danish Hot Dog24th & Passyunk TruckTexas TommyPhilly Dirty Water DogChi...

Still don't have a turkey plan this year? Then we've got a contest for you. The good folks at D'Artagnan are providing us with a turkey a day to give away to one lucky Serious Eats reader from today u...

There's so much going on in Talk week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week. Help:...

[Photographs: Chichi Wang] Previously Thai Curries, Part Two: Red and Green » All Seriously Asian recipes » This week concludes our three-part installment of Thai curry pastes. Red, green, and yello...

I don't know exactly how cranberry sauce came to be such an integral part of the Thanksgiving meal. What I do know is that it acts as a prefect sweet-tart palate cleanser to break up the otherwise sav...

I spent most of the week under my favorite blanket on the couch - sniff, cough, cough, sniff, sneeze, repeat. The good news is I'm on the mend, and after a short walk today something tells me I wasn't...

I met Harris Salat on an Oldways trip to Puglia, Italy in 2006. He's a straight-up New Yorker, and the east coast yin, to my west coast yang. Which, come to think of it, might be why we get along so w...

I did that thing the other night, Halloween actually, where you're invited to a party and can't decide exactly what to bring. At first I said I'd bring a hearty salad of some sort, but as soon as I he...

I'm going to argue that this is the type of soup that needs to be made to order. While many soups and stews get more complex and enticing after a day or so in the refrigerator, I don't find that to be...

I suspect that some of you might be on the lookout for a few Halloween recipes, or Halloween-inspired recipes might be a better way of phrasing it. There are a bunch hiding in the archives, so I thoug...

Glazed nuts are a favorite holiday snack, and are very simple to make. Use walnuts, pecans, almonds, or a mix.

A classic drink. Stir, most Manhattan drinkers like it that way. Shake it only when asked to do so. May be served up or on the rocks.

Coffee-mocha smoothie, straight from the blender.

This is a wonderfully simple, yet delicious cake! It is so moist and fresh, it will surely be a favorite with your family, just like it is with mine! The main length of the preparation time is cuttin...

The crust for this savory pie is made in the food processor and rolls out beautifully. The cooked filling of pumpkin, potatoes, onions, and corn, is robust and nicely flavored with thyme, allspice, ga...

Celebrate with cocktail-party bites and beverages: These Epicurious recipes received high marks from our loyal users--comments and tips included.

Trying out a couple of these meat-free recipes will not only please vegetarian guests, it will also enhance your culinary repertoire.

For families on the go, exotic dinners may seem stressful. We have a solution: an Armenian-style veggie stew.

Drinks are an essential part of any good pregame celebration--pack plenty to satisfy your crowd.

Whether you make it, buy it, or buy it and make believe you made it, your friends and family will be thrilled.

We have had quite a few great recipes and good ideas for hot holiday drinks the past few weeks at The Kitchn. Here's a look back at over a dozen hot drinks, from Nora's hot apple-ginger toddy f...

Remember how we said pre-made store-bought puff pastry was one of our favorite kitchen short cuts during the busy entertaining season? We weren't kidding! Here are five recipes that are as mouthwateri...

When Kelly Moseley lived in New York City, she was always envious of friends with a large kitchen island. So when she and her husband Louie bought a 1930s cottage in Austin, Texas, she made sur...

Last week at the farmer's market I bought a couple of rutabagas, and I knew I wanted to make soup with them. It's been pretty chilly in San Francisco, perfect soup weather. I wanted to try something...

Looking for a hot drink to cozy up to on a crisp fall evening? Something with the sweetness of apples and honey, the bright zing of ginger and lemon, and a little extra boozy warmth? How about a Hot A...

This is one righteous pumpkin cheesecake. (Hmm, now that I think about it, what does that mean? I have visions of Alvin the Chipmunk taking a bite of this cake and squeeking "Righteous!") It's tall,...

I'm guessing that you are either a turnip lover or not. Turnips aren't one of those happy-go-lucky neutral vegetables, like green beans for example, that seem to get along with everyone. No, turnips...

One of the best things about fall is the abundance of pumpkins and hardy winter squash. Ever wonder why winter squash is called "winter" squash when it first makes its appearance in the fall? Perhap...

From the recipe archive, a warm dish for a chilly day! ~Elise Just hearing the words "sloppy joe" from my mother used to send us kids into a tizzy. There was something wonderfully fun about getting...

Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic as he shares one of his favorite quick and easy brussels sprouts recipes. ~Elise "It's funky. Abrasive. It's not afraid to get in your fac...

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A chilly Spring has me longing for a tropical vacation. One way to get a little taste of the islands in our own backyard is to dine at Roy's. Chef Roy Yamaguchi is one of the most influential and well...

"The chestnut soup was good, but not Bar Jules good," a friend told me the other day. She was referring to a delicious chestnut and farro soup that we'd eaten at Bar Jules a couple of months back.In...

Blueberries and oysters? Chocolate and cauliflower? Blue cheese and rhubarb and pineapple?If taste buds could cringe, then mine were recoiled into a wincing mess when I first learned about these flavo...

I usually try to buy local and organic foods, but am not always successful. Choosing to buy locally is often inconvenient, while buying organic can be expensive. Most grocery stores do not stock local...

In case you haven't noticed, food blogs, food magazines, food networks and the like love Thanksgiving. They love it because, for once, the nation is intent on cooking dinner. For 364 days out of the y...

As a New York based food blogger, I often make an effort to vary my posts so that those of you not in New York--which, I imagine, is actually the large majority of you--can feel like I'm speaking to y...

When I think pot roast, I think Americana, I think 50s sitcoms and a beleaguered housewife who intones: "Oh, darn it, I burnt the pot roast!" It's not a dish that I ate much growing up, eati...

Those of you with cappuccino makers, may I have your attention? I have a weekend project for you. When you make your scrambled eggs this weekend, instead of melting butter in a pan, beating the eggs w...

It's my fault, really. My parents were in town and my mom asked me, early in the week, if I'd babysit my dad for lunch on Tuesday while she met some of her friends. I said, "Sure." Then, the...

Chocolatiers Hershey and Ferrero are said to be considering teaming up for a "friendly bid" on Cadbury, potentially trumping Kraft's hostile bid.

Do these matroyshkas measure up? Yes.

"She's more of an entertainer than she is, with her bubbly personality, than she is a teacher, like me. That's not what she's professing to be,"...

Giant bowls of food -- containing as much as 2,248 calories -- are in high demand among young Japanese men.

A new site called TasteStopping solely publishes food photographs that have been "rejected, declined or otherwise spurned by one of the myriad 'elite' sites out there (ahem…TasteSpotting, FoodG...

Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in announcing a push for Town Meeting...

EDITOR'S NOTE - The United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child 20 years ago Friday, yet hundreds of millions of children still suffer from violence, hunger and disease.

Dear Abby: I'm 32 and a 'large girl.' I am also intelligent, witty and fun to be around.

A medium popcorn and soda at the Regal movie theater chain has the calories of three McDonald's Quarter Pounders and 12 pats of butter, a U.S. food group says.

Eating for your age: nutrition tips for seniors As we age, it's as important as ever to stick to a healthy diet.

In my opinion, the best chicken is chicken sous-vide. Each bite is tender and succulent in a way I never thought chicken could possibly be. It's kind of changed everything for me. Even the a...

Bon Appétit  has put together another collection of their favorite holiday dishes, and we're honored to be involved again this year. Last time we showcased our scrumptious holiday&...

"A proper Negroni is as perfectly and tripodically balanced as, say, a water molecule. " - Jonathan Miles The Negroni is an incorruptible drink. While the martini can be perverted by nefariou...

Every Christmas, we eat cinnamon rolls. That's just how it is. When I was little, someone would wake up early and drive over to the Cinnabon store and come back with a gooey dozen, and always make su...

The concept of making cheese has always fascinated me, the idea that you can take milk and add a little acid (or rennet) to magically separate it into curds and whey. Milk seems like such a stable li...

Pizza with Cabot clothbound cheddar, caramelized balsamic onions, Watson Farm smoked andouille, and Allen Farm micro mustard greens. The crust is some of Mike’s homemade. pulled from the freeze...

Yesterday was not one of my better days. My stomach was churning as much as my mind was, and my lack of appetite made it hard to think about what to make for dinner. By the time I was halfway home,...

(As always, click the photos to view them with more detail in my [and this week, in Mike's] Flickr stream.)...

This just came across my radar, and I have to say I’m a little surprised at how hurt and upset I am by it. For the record, I was mortified when I saw the position of my fingers in that photo, b...

Let’s say you made short ribs recently, browning them and braising them with a copious amount of red wine and aromatic vegetables. You have, of course, saved not just the uneaten meaty bits, bu...

Well, I did it.... went to the New York Baker's website and bought fresh compressed yeast   I've always wanted to try it, it's impossible to find where I live. Now, of course, I will have more ye...

Inspired by Charles Luce gluten free millet starter (following instructions in The Bread Builders, by Daniel Wing and Alan Scott)   I startered a sourdough starter using amaranth... http://...

I've read a bunch on here about different mixers and how the newer Kitchenaid mixers compare poorly to the old Hobart made ones. My question is; what is the difference between some of the five quart,...

Hello everyone!  I'm DeeDee from Idaho.  I love baking breads and have fallen in love with this site!  In fact, I've got a whole wheat loaf in the oven as I type this.  My family l...

I was given Maggie Glezer's book Artisan Baking many years ago from a friend  who received it from the publisher to review. She is chief with too many books on her shelf already....she knew i was...

Many Southern California restaurants will be serving holiday meals, to eat in or take out. Here are some of the choices.

Many Southern California restaurants will be serving holiday meals, to eat in or take out. Here are some of the choices.

Thanksgiving is a holiday built on tradition. And, much to my surprise, I seem to have found a new one of my own -- writing about dry-brined turkey.

North, South, East or West, family favorites are treasured guests at the holiday table. When Thanksgiving spr...

Chef-owner Mark Gold's expert touch with top-quality ingredients makes this a special place and an extraordinary bargain. It's Sunday...

A ritzy evening of supper and song, inspired by the Café Carlyle.

For cooks, most Thanksgiving problems are brought about by the number of dishes competing for the stove. The best solution is to make food in advance.

Observers of the legendary French chef Pierre Gagnaire wonder how he will wed his audience and his art at his new Las Vegas beachhead.

If the Oceana of old was a pleasant room with elegant food and a caring touch, the new version, now in the McGraw-Hill building, is a high-functioning luxury mill.

Recently, this remote town has begun to develop a reputation for food that, while not eclipsing its artistic one, might at least be said to complement it.

You there...you. The one who doesn't like beer. Yeah, you. If lagers leave you feeling with a sense of 'meh', and porters and stouts make you feel as if you've had a drink of mud, let me point you...

Purple Dot Cafe - Seattle, WA - 11/14/2009 Name: Char Siu Bau Primary Ingredient(s): BBQ Pork Type of Dish: Bun Method of Preparation: Baked or Steamed In the world of Dim Sum, it is the Pork Bun tha...

If you've ever wanted to hear what I sound like, and you don't mind conversation about whiskey, feel free to tune into your local public radio station and catch Travel with Rick Steves. We discuss my...

Way back in 2004, one of the first projects I worked on for Accidental Hedonist was a series of posts dealing with Italian food. My goal with these posts (as with most of the other articles on this he...

Scott sent the following to me, and it most certainly caught my interest: Beer Bottle from Hindenburg Disaster, World's Most Expensive Singed Bottle of Lowenbrau Recovered From Historic Inferno Cou...

Have you ever cooked with Fuyu persimmons? I'd never even tasted them until a few days ago when a huge box of persimmons arrived in the mail! They were from Andrea of Rookie Cookery, who had offered...

Now that roasted brussels sprouts have turned me into a brussels sprouts fan, I've been paying attention to how people cook the little guys, and lately I've noticed brussels sprouts being shredded int...

It's time for me to stop thinking about whole wheat bread and get back to spotlighting Low-Glycemic Thanksgiving Recipe Ideas you might want to add to your menu. This amazing dish of butternut squash...

It's Friday night, which makes most people happy, and I'm especially happy this Friday because tomorrow we're having a big Denny family party for my dad's 84th birthday. Before I get too busy celebr...

Yesterday I shared the recipe for 100% White Whole Wheat Bread with Olive Oil from Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day. That recipe makes bread dough which can be stored in the fridge and used later...

You might think it was these gorgeous, glowing yellow limes... ...which I'm not sure what I'm going to do with, but their sweet-tangy juice might make a refreshing summertime sorbet. Or a batch...

A few months ago I was having drinks at a friend's house up by the Place des Fêtes, outdoors on their patio, and I noticed something tucked away in the corner. Me: "Hey! What's that?" Them: "Wh...

I don't like to make promises I can't keep, and last week I promised myself that I'm going to eat pesto every day for the rest of my life. So far, I've made good on that promise. The only thin...

I recently read The Pedant in the Kitchen, which Michael Ruhlman also wrote up, and while I found it an enjoyable rant, one vexing thought that stuck in the author's craw was recipe instructions that...

In the south of France, they're pretty generous with les glaçons. It's never any problem to get ice cubes, which are often brought to the table heaped in a bowl, and sometimes even already added to t...

This Sunday, November 22, our New York City correspondent Nick Solares will appear on CBS Sunday Morning where Bobby Flay will interview him about sliders. (If you haven't seen it before, check out Ni...

Note: Today we're interviewing Jennifer Deseo of The Silver Spring Penguin, a blog dedicated to news and events in Silver Spring, Maryland. Over the summer we enjoyed following her burger escapades in...

Sidecar 560 5th Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215 (b/n 15th Street and 16th Street; map); 718-369-0077; sidecarbrooklyn.com Cooking Method: Grilled Short Order: A juicy, satisfying burger. Want Fries with Tha...

Mm, meat noodles. In their latest video, Always Hungry takes you behind-the-scenes at New York City's Pat La Frieda Meats, meat supplier to burger favorites Shake Shack, Minetta Tavern, and the Spotte...

[Photograph: Chris Cullen] Dripping juices, charred meat patty, and toasted buns—it's hard for me to turn away from Chris Cullen's photograph of the namesake burger from Umami Burger in Los Ange...

It's Friday again! Here are a few Thanksgiving preparation tips that we think will make the best day of the year even better: Mark Bittman dishes out 101 head starts. (The New York Times) How to match...

I was getting my holiday recipes in order when my husband suggested we do a practice run on his sister-in-law Nita's eggnog recipe. Funny, never thinks to do that for our other holiday dishes. I guess...

My 11-year old son is a tough nut to crack when it comes to vegetable consumption. I am constantly reminding him to eat his veggies. If the veggies are raw, he will heed my advice and eat them. But, m...

The history of making a wish over the wishbone, it is said, dates back more than 2000 years to the Etruscans. Who knew that this classic tug of war, which typically takes place in the kitchen a few da...

Those with a curiosity for all-things culinary should set a place at the table for 100 Words for Foodies, the latest installment in the popular paperback series, 100 Words..., from the editors of the...

Leo stared out the window, looked for the sun, and then turned around and sat with a big hurumpf. He's an old dog who has seen his fair share of Seattle winters. It's my 12th Seattle winter, and I hav...

It's a little early for me to be thinking about holiday desserts. And by a little, I mean about 52 days too early. I'm not one to have a full menu planned out in advance, even if I'm noodling over a f...

The past few weeks, I've been battling the gravity of my couch. It's amazing how quickly things can go from a million miles an hour to a full, dead stop. Most days, I don't even see the lower level of...

I have a confession about Gourmet magazine. You could, perhaps, blame me, at least a little bit, for it's financial ruin. See, last time my subscription was about to run out, I got notified that I cou...

I don't exactly know what's come over me the last month. But, I've had a huge case of blogger ennui. It's not that I haven't been cooking or shooting or even been too busy. It's just that I haven't fo...

Tonight I decided to take down the guanciale I made from the Mangalitsa hog jowl that I bought from the Mosefund Farm back in October. I'd already decided on making spaghetti with cauliflower, onions...

I don't often question my eating preferences because I like to think that they are so broad and comprehensive that I don't need to worry if my biases are keeping me from gustatory experiences that mig...

This video of piglets being tossed around like footballs and caged and injured pigs with open wounds makes me spitting mad. There is no way to justify this sort of treatment.And check out this stateme...

Yesterday was a day of starts. I started batches of salami, salt pork, pancetta, bresaola and sauerkraut. The batch of sauerkraut I began was a small one, made from eight humongous heads of cabbage f...

I'm not going to jump on the "Why does science waste time and money attempting to prove/disprove common knowledge?" bandwagon. However, it is obvious to anyone who has ever raised one that the beasts...

In an NPR tradition, the Friday before Thanksgiving is the time for Susan Stamberg to share her weird-sounding — but delicious — recipe for cranberry relish. This year, she's found a real...

Because holiday meals traditionally are laden with flour-heavy foods, the season can be tough for those new to a gluten-free lifestyle. But it's easy to leave out wheat products and still have delicio...

Apple growers in New England are looking to hard cider as a way to beat dropping prices and foreign competition. The fermented cider was the drink of choice for the nation's founding fathers. One New...

Facing political pressure from the Gulf Coast oyster industry, the FDA has backed off a plan to require that raw Gulf of Mexico oysters be treated to rid them of a potentially deadly bacteria found in...

Last week, NPR asked listeners to send in ramen noodle stories. And they flooded in. Those cheap little packages of instant noodles with the silver foil flavor packets served up a big bowl of nostalgi...

Photo Post by Donna When shooting food, different light will give you different moods. Bright, even light—a cheery mood. Low, uneven light—a more dramatic mood. Light from the front shows less tex...

Photos by Donna How many of you thought that Brussels sprouts grew in the ground like little cabbages? Or like me, never really thought about how they grew until you were forced to consider it? Last F...

Photos by Donna I got really lucky when I fell in love with Donna in the wee hours of the new year 1988 Mary Frances's kitchen in Palm Beach. She'd been shooting that night, and would continue shootin...

Photo by Donna My obsession with pretzels began with olives and the lye, but I was only moved to actually figure pretzels out after a comically disastrous demo at the Fabulous Food Show on Saturday. (...

Photo Post by Donna The final 2010 photo calendar is complete and here are the 16 featured photos (there are 3 months with 2 photos and on the cover is the brown eggs in wooden bowl photo) and there a...

We’ve all heard the myth that eating lots of carrots can give you super-strength eyesight, but did you know that it’s mostly true? Low levels of Vitamin A in our diets can cause poor eyesi...

Here are the winners of yesterday’s Hump Day mixer (and cookbook) giveaway: MIXER: Winner #1 – #83 Kari in Atlanta (early number this time!) Winner #2 – #4966 Memoria Winner #3 R...

Happy Wednesday! I’m writing from somewhere in St. Louis, Missouri, where I can see the Arch out of my hotel room window and where my boys are sacked out on a sofa bed, sleeping their lives away...

Making polenta is the easiest thing in the world, and can be a nice complement to many meat dishes. I stirred a secret ingredient into my polenta the other night, and combined with the slow-cooked bee...

Leesten. And heer me. (West Side Story reference. Sorry. “Leesten. And heer me. You must go and stop eet.” But seriously. Leesten. You must make this as soon as you can. If you’ve ne...

Tonight I made one of my favorite soups, a thick sweet potato soup made fiery and smoky with chipotles. I make this soup often in the cold-weather months, but for some reason I’ve never shared it...

Is there a cuter word in the English language than dumpling? Nope, I didn’t think so. And when you pair it with chicken to make chicken and dumplings, you have one of my favorite belly-filling,...

I have a new favorite pie that I will be sharing with my family at Thanksgiving—it’s peanut butter pie. But before I tell you how to make it, first a little background. Two years ago, I received...

When I first moved to New York, I was struck by the presence of what was called a Texas burger. At first I was thrilled, curious as to what it could contain—guacamole, jalapenos or salsa all seemed.

When I was in college, on Saturday afternoons a large group of us would celebrate the weekend by going to lunch at the local Tex-Mex restaurant. We’d toast the weekend with tall glasses of iced tea.