When she's not on the radio or hosting her show on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow likes to mix drinks; we've read about her love of old-fashioned cocktails and mixology. On New Year's Eve, New York Magazine ...
For all you pom-obsessed cooks out there, a friend sent in this video that helped her avoid messily wrangling down a pomegranate last weekend....
Did you know that President-elect Barack Obama is a big fan of pie? Oh yes he is, and he proves it by saying pie 15 times in less than two minutes. Watch the video below to see - he even proposes a sw...
As you may know, we're hosting a clean-out-your-cupboard challenge with Eric Ripert. He's going to take what's in one of your pantries (or fridge) and turn it into a wonderful meal. Doubtful that this...
Before we can cook it, someone has to grow it. In this documentary-in-the-making by Severine von Tschamer Fleming, meet The Greenhorns, the next generation of America's organic, small scale-farmer...
The Art & Soul of Baking by pastry genius Cindy Mushet is October's Cookbook Club selection over at Gourmet.com. In conjunction with the book, they also offer up a short video on how to make individu...
It's the first day of fall, and fall is high pie season for us. Sara Kate has already shared her favorite pie plate and a great sour cream pie crust recipe. But we also love this recipe from Martha St...
Have you seen these new TV ads? The backlash against high fructose corn syrup is getting its own backlash from the Corn Refiners Association... ...
I don’t have a TV, so I rely on the internet for whenever I want to indulge in a cooking show fix. There’s a lot of great stuff out there, which I hope to share with you in the coming weeks. Weâ...
We know this is the second Gourmet video in as many weeks that we're promoting, but this one really surprised us. You can get three times as much juice from a lemon just by slicing it lengthwise inste...
Old houses, old kitchens, and secret surprises. That has been the story of our current moving-in process. We are working with an old kitchen that has its challenges... and its Bat Cave-style sur...
There's a great little video over at Gourmet's website. Food editor Ian Knauer turns fresh tomatoes into crushed tomatoes with one simple tool: a box grater. Perfect for adapting those recipes that ...
A few months ago we talked about how to make perfect hard-boiled eggs....
Browsing New York Magazine's website this morning, we saw this video of Eric Ripert grilling fish on a slate tile......
E-i-e-i-oh my. Last night, Sara Kate and I went to a Gastronomica forum on Faith and Food at the Astor Center. Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh spoke about the challenges of farming while holding to their re...
. While touring a cemetery in New Orleans a few weeks ago, I overheard Ray Reiker, a wine auctioneer from Alabama and a real southern gentleman, telling our tour guide the origin of the Hush Pupp...
Last weekend New York public television station Thirteen/WNET had Mark Bittman on in a live webcast to demonstrate (he said) that he is not the total curmudgeon he sometimes appears on television. W...
We're excited to see fava beans showing up in the farmers' markets, but we admit to being a little intimidated about all that shelling-boiling-shelling action. Sometimes watching a quick demonstrat...
We're rolling ahead with video: it's time to start showing you all some basic techniques and we'll start with the onion, that pungent bulbous bundle of flavor, so essential to so many cuisines. ...
Do you like Fiesta Dinnerware? We stopped by their booth at the Housewares show and were bowled over by the huge array of colors. We have always loved the Fiesta colors and solid, made-in-Americ...
All right, many of you may think we saved the best for last. This is a whole mini-episode of reality food TV with Curtis Stone, the Take Home Chef himself. Stone is currently a spokesperson for Br...
Here's an interesting and practical product that we saw at the Housewares show - stackable pots and pans with removable handles. You only need one set of handles and they snap off and on one-han...
Prepara is a small company based right in New York City. They make sleek, modern-designed kitchen tools that try to answer old problems in new ways. We had seen one of their signature products, ...
It's April Fools and the sun is shining, so here's a bagatelle of a video from the Housewares show. It's just Alton Brown, doing some of his schtick. He followed Paula Deen at the cooking theatr...
We've predicted that silicone is on its way out, but we saw more of it than ever at the 2008 Home and Housewares Show. Silicone's heat-resistant properties are still super popular in commercial ...
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