Halloween is here and everyone’s dressed up — even our favorite restaurants and food brands. Fishwife showed off an array of tinned fish costumes. The Los Angeles izakaya Ototo is temporarily taking on the form of a Japanese 7-Eleven, while the Minnesota barbecue truck Animales is imitating McDonald’s. In Washington, D.C., restaurant staff is dressed…
Say what you will about Instagrammy cookware, but Great Jones has really mastered the art of brightening up otherwise forgettable baking drawers and stovetops with non-boring cookware essentials. The brand’s price-accessible Dutch oven, for example, was one of the first $100+ pieces of cookware I could afford, and the fact that it came in a…
It’s impossible to say for certain what the precise elements are that make for a great cocktail. You never really know what mix of ingredients, name and backstory will resonate with people to elevate a drink from just another assemblage of ingredients to something enduringly memorable. Take the Bocce Ball, for instance. It’s just one…
My knife collection used to make me feel like a magpie. My old Bakelite paring knife? Cool, but more of a collector’s item. The chef’s knives from Target that I’ve had since college? Begging to be put out to pasture. I explained all of this to a friend who is a much better cook than…
It takes seven or eight years for an espadín agave plant to mature to the point at which Rogelio Juan Hernández, maestro mezcalero and co-founder of Agua Mágica, can use it to make mezcal. For four generations, his family has made mezcal in the region of San Juan del Río in Oaxaca, Mexico. “It’s an…
Prices taken at time of publishing. A beloved culinary heirloom, Le Creuset makes the gold standard of Dutch ovens. I’m still using the one I borrowed from my parents’ kitchen 20 years ago, after who knows how many years of it being used to make our family’s beef stroganoff and day-long bolognese. The enameled interior…
After making headlines earlier this week following presidential candidate and former president Donald Trump’s stunt cosplaying as a service worker, McDonald’s is back in the news again, this time for an even bleaker reason: The CDC announced yesterday that it’s investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to the company’s Quarter Pounders. As of this writing,…
Does the world need another luxury wine fridge? Maybe not. But it also never asked for Fabergé eggs, and those are also pretty cool. So when Eater staff caught wind of a new wine fridge collaboration from Rocco (think, the Audi of wine fridge brands) and Las Jaras (the wine company of Joel Burt and…
