I’m kind of a lazy person. I’m also always looking for new ways in which I can afford to be lazier, in the sense that I’m curious about how my daily routines can be simplified; I want to know which unitasker tools or items can expand in their functionality, and how I, especially as a…
If you live in an apartment with a ventilation system that’s as weird as mine, you’re no stranger to the blaring siren of your smoke alarm. I don’t know about your place, but the smoke detector in my apartment can detect the faintest whiff of char arising from a burger or steak that I’m trying…
Open fire is at the heart of one-year-old Theodora, a Brooklyn restaurant where the showmanship of cooking over a live fire and Mediterranean dishes with smoke-filled flavor draw in hopeful diners that wait in line for the chance to sample owner and executive chef Tomer Blechman’s menu. “There’s so much we can achieve with caramelization…
An Australian woman accused of cooking a fatal mushroom meal admits to picking wild funghi, lying to police and disposing of evidence, but will argue the “tragedy” was a “terrible accident”. The Supreme Court trial of Erin Patterson, 50, began in the small Victorian town of Morwell on Wednesday and is expected to last six…
As the queen of forgetting about the spatula on the hot pan, I am trying to actively invest in kitchen utensils that can both handle high temperatures and won’t leave me freaked out about sketchy plastic materials. There has been a lot of nervous chatter about black plastic recently, and deservedly so; studies have found…
I, perhaps like you, used to be a real tong freak. The phrase “I love tongs” came up in my life with surprising frequency. I had favorites (mine are, I regret to report, an unbranded pair I got over a decade ago). I felt tempted by the mini tongs every time I saw them at…
James Beard Award-winning chef, author, and television personality Nathalie Dupree died on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, at 85. Dupree was an icon in Southern cooking, championing female chefs throughout the region. She is known for her nationally lauded cookbook, New Southern Cooking, which turned into a cooking series on PBS, The Learning Channel, Star…
On Thursday, just as everyone rubbed the New Year’s Day sleep out of their eyes, Meghan Markle revealed the first look at her forthcoming Netflix series, With Love, Meghan. The trailer, posted to Markle’s Instagram account, showcases the Duchess of Sussex hanging out in a Montecito, California mansion with famous friends like Mindy Kaling as…
The thing about elections is there is only so much you can do about them. You can vote, you can phone bank, you can remind everyone you know that a majority of Americans don’t want abortion bans, and that Medicare paying for home health care is a very good idea. And then, you can basically…
