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 An Eater's Guide to Whistler, British Columbia
The glow of nightlife in Whistler. | Tourism Whistler/Justa Jeskova
Chefs from star-studded Vancouver, seafood via the Sea-to-Sky Highway, local ingredients from Pemberton Valley, and wines from around British Columbia come together to make Whistler a culinary powerhouse Even for North America's biggest ski resort, Whistler punches far above its weight as a winter getaway. The same nearby coast that brings endless powder to Whistler's peaks also supplies fr...
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'The Silver Palate Cookbook' Changed Home Cooking (and Pesto Consumption) As We Know It
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Published in 1982, it brought verve to entertaining and taught a generation of American cooks to trust in bold flavors, fresh herbs, and the joys of improvisation If you lived through the 1980s there's a decent chance that, at some point, you crossed paths with raspberry vinaigrette, pesto, and arugula. By the end of the decade, they had become part of the atmosphere hanging over American society, like a giant cloud of Aqua Net h...
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Matt Lucas's Time on 'Great British Bake Off' Is Cooked
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Who should replace the divisive baking show host? After three seasons, 51 episodes, and a whole lot of viewer anguish, Great British Baking Show co-host Matt Lucas is leaving the tent for good. I personally could not be more thrilled, and it seems like just about everyone else on the internet feels exactly the same way.
Lucas announced his departure from the series in a tweet on Tuesday, saying that he
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Gifts for the Aspiring TikTok Food Influencer
The best things to buy the person who gets all their recipes from TikTok For new and inexperienced home cooks, TikTok has emerged as an obvious destination for finding interesting — and occasionally viral — recipes. In addition to serving up dishes from all different types of creators and cuisines, the app also provides the opportunity for newbies to actually watch the process of how a dish is made in just a couple of minutes, and that alone has likely inspired many ...
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Eater's Best New Restaurants 2022
Ellen Mary Cronin
Eat here now. Thank us later. At Eater, we love answering the question: What's the best place to eat right now?
In 2022, by far the most normal-feeling year in, well, years, chefs and restaurateurs have been chasing passions and opening dream projects. This is the year that a bakery — not a bakery-plus-restaurant, not a bakery with a savory menu too, just a damn good bakery — can feel revolutionary, even when sticking to the classics. Capi...
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Announcing the 2022 Eater Awards Winners
Dishes from Claud, an Eater NY award winner for best wine bar. | Claud
From Atlanta to San Francisco, Eater cities toast the restaurants and chefs, the impressive transformations and celebratory vibes that defined the year In the lead up to the publication of our national Best New Restaurants list, which drops tomorrow, behold the 2022 Eater Awards. The annual tradition sees Eater editors in cities across the country plus London name the best restaurants, bakeries
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Where Eater's Editor-in-Chief Is Buying All Her Gifts This Year
A one-stop shop makes things so much easier A version of this post originally appeared on December 3, 2022, in Stephanie Wu's newsletter, "From the Editor," a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world. Read the archives and subscribe now.
As much as I enjoy shopping, the idea of gift-giving stresses me out, particularly around the holidays. I'm a fan of spontaneous gifting — coming across a trinket or card for someone on my travels, or buyin...
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The Town That Panettone Built
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A tiny medieval village hidden inside a national park produces world-famous Sicilian panettone Nicola Fiasconaro pulls a floppy mass of panettone dough off of a conveyor belt, plops it onto a steel work table, and shapes the buttery, fruit-studded goop into a perfect little round. The legendary pastry chef makes it look easy, despite the dough's reputation as impossible. Fiasconaro, who deflects when asked for his age, has been making artisan,...
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How a Commercial Peanut Farmer Uses 100-Year-Old Methods
Farmer Elisha Barnes even uses a machine from the 1920s "It's antiquated, and people call me crazy for doing it," says Elisha Barnes of Pop Son Farms in Southampton County, Virginia. He's talking about the laborious ways in which he farms the peanuts that end up in your trail mix, in packages sold at baseball stadiums, and on grocery store shelves. He's the only commercial farmer in the United States who grows and harvests peanuts using century-old methods.
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Apparently, Hosting the 'Great American Baking Show' Is as Awkward as It Looks
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Co-hosts Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry dish on what it's like hanging out with Paul and Prue and how much of the contestants' bakes they actually got to try on "Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Holidays" Despite the widespread popularity of the Great British Bake Off, that success has proven difficult to replicate in the United States. Previous adaptations of the show have...
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King Arthur Wants You to Love Holiday Baking
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The flour company's baking school offers classes on everything from buche de noel to ginger spice cookies, along with lots of reassurance Holiday baking can feel like an ordeal (albeit one with great payoff), which is why for the past 20 years, bakers of all levels have turned to King Arthur Flour's Baking School. With two locations in Vermont and Washington, as well as a slew of online classes, the long-standing flour and baking supply company ha...
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The Great American Eater Interview With Paul and Prue
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Judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith on what makes a new American iteration of "Bake Off" different than its predecessors, and the GBBO fiasco that was Mexican Week Thanks to the incredible success of the Great British Bake Off on Netflix, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood have settled nicely into their place as the cultural arbiters of what makes for a proper British dessert. Now...
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Join Eater and Shopify for Holiday Markets in New York and Los Angeles
Shop an Eater-curated collection of food and home finds, pop in for spirited tastings, and get holiday cooking advice from our favorite cookbook authors and chefs Every holiday season Eater puts together extensive gift guides for the restaurant and food obsessives in your life, and this year we're taking it a step further with two can't-miss, in-person holiday markets. Our friends at Shopify are letting us take over their New York and Los Angeles spaces to bring you ...
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The Best Gift You Can Buy Yourself Is Better Kitchen Supplies for Your Parents
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They might never use them, but you will when you cook at their place When I was a kid, my mom bought her parents a beautiful espresso machine for Christmas, knowing how much they loved cappuccinos. She helped them set it up, showed them how to steam milk and pull espresso, and they thanked her profusely for the beautiful gift. Then, they promptly continued to make coffee in their drip pot. The espresso machine was...
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Happy Bonne Maman Advent Calendar Season to All Who Celebrate
The 2022 Bonne Maman advent calendar. | Bonne Maman
Jamvent is here, bringing the wholesome joy of watching people unbox tiny jars of jam on TikTok It's finally here: Tomorrow, the advent calendars will commence once again, and the tiny jars of Bonne Maman jam will take their rightful place all over my For You page, with people revealing one gingham-topped jar per day until Christmas and sharing a flurry of reviews. Last year brought such delights as wild blueb...
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Gifts for the Host Who Gets Every Design Magazine
What to buy the person who delights in a good tablescape Some people are easy to shop for because they never buy anything for themselves, making it obvious which items they need. But then there's that other group — the people who buy anything they could need the instant it comes to mind and take care to ensure those things are exactly right. I'm talking about the friend who sets their alarm for ceramics drops; who's considered shelling out for Venetian glass gobl...
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Olive Oil Never Needed a Rebrand — But It's Getting One Anyway
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Brands like Brightland, Graza, Fat Gold, and Rubirosa have brought the elusive element of coolness to the pantry staple In the press images for Single & Fat extra virgin olive oil, high-fashion models flounce around artfully messy hotel rooms, eating spaghetti while lounging in a bathtub, pouring oil out of a millennial pink and olive green tin onto a slice of pizza, even rubbing each other down with the golden product, perfectly in view of
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The Best Gift for Anyone and Everyone Is a Really Good Cup
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After all, everyone needs to hydrate The holiday season is here, and in addition to all the snacks and visits with family, that also means spending hours figuring out which gifts to buy for all the people in your life. The process of gift-hunting can be seriously overwhelming, especially when you've got a bunch of picky folks on your gifting list. But there is an easy solution, one that addresses a need that every human on ...
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Target's Latest Collaboration Brings British Christmas to America
Now you can pick up some British Christmas ephemera at Target. | Marks & Spencer
The holiday pop-up collection of the year, explained Target, the big-box retailer, is selling a 15-item collection of Christmas food novelties from Marks & Spencer, my all-time favo(u)rite British grocery store. The lineup, available in shops and online, is heavy on collector's tins, including one that's a music box and one shaped like a double-decker bus. If you, for some...
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17 Gifts on Sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Items from Great Jones, Material, and W&P are on sale now.
The best discounted food gifts and kitchen tools to buy now If the day after Thanksgiving marks the official shift to holiday gift shopping, then you're in luck. This year many of our favorite brands are leaning into the unofficial shopping holiday and offering discounts on items that not-so-coincidentally would make for some pretty great gifts. If you're looking for a sweet treat to share with th...
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How Ocean Spray Harvests and Processes Cranberries for the Holiday Season
Many farms from the New England area contribute their harvest to Ocean Spray's operation As people gear up to make cranberry sauce and desserts to be enjoyed around the table this holiday season, they may not know that cranberry farms are cramming a massive amount of work into the 60 days leading up to Thanksgiving to get those cranberries and cranberry products in stores.
On this episode of "Dan Does," host Daniel Geneen visits a cranberry farm to learn how owne...
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Let's Talk About the WTF Ending of 'The Menu'
Ralph Fiennes and Hong Chau in a scene from "The Menu." | © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.
Spoilers ahead for one of the wildest movie endings I've ever seen As The Menu, director Mark Mylod's chilling send-up of the world of exclusive fine dining, hurtled toward its dramatic ending, something in my brain broke. After almost two hours of being completely terrified — Ralph Fiennes is cold and chilling as chef Julian Slowik, an egomaniac d...
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Gifts for the Person Who Knows Food Is Always in Style
Your most stylish friend could certainly use a mushroom shirt or burrata hat. | Eater
The coolest restaurant merch and food fashion to give this year Whether they're a devoted regular of a local dive, or they simply enjoy showing their general enthusiasm for foods like shrimp and dumplings, some people just can't stop wearing their love for food on their sleeves. Luckily, merch options abound for restaurant lovers, and home cooks can take their pick of jewelr...
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I Freaking Love the Apple Database
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Welcome to Orange Pippin, a fruit enthusiast's fantasia Maybe it has to do with the increasingly chaotic nature of the world, or maybe I'm more of a method-oriented person than I thought, but I've come to realize that I love a good database. I still use the Food Timeline with regularity, tirelessly scroll through the @depthsofwikipedia Instagram account, and recently, when my friend sent me a link to the apple and stonefruit cataloging data...
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The Best Holiday Cocktails, According to Eater Editors
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Don't let cocktails fall by the wayside in the flurry of holiday dinner prep In the endless iterating that goes into devising a menu for a holiday dinner, it's stupidly easy to forget the drinks. There will always be wine and beer, sure, and the cooler is stocked with canned seltzer, but digesting too much information about the best appetizers and flakiest pie recipes means cocktails can fall by the wayside. No longer. Below, find Eater editor-app...
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A Thanksgiving Congee Recipe That Will Give Delicious New Life to Your Leftovers
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Calvin Eng's congee utilizes every bit of holiday leftovers, from the turkey carcass to cranberry sauce Congee, or jook, is my comfort food. It's simple, warm and cozy, and absolutely delicious. This version is also incredibly nostalgic for me, since it became a tradition in my family to make it with the turkey carcass the morning after Thanksgiving. Chinese households don't like to waste anything!
At its core, congee is just a bowl of brok...
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Make Your Own Rules on Thanksgiving
Last year's Thanksgiving spread included roast duck, biscuits, mac and cheese, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and Brussels sprouts. | Stephanie Wu
My ideal holiday consists of just two things A version of this post originally appeared on November 19, 2022, in Stephanie Wu's newsletter, "From the Editor," a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world. Read the archives and subscribe now.
Thanksgiving has always ranked as one of my favorite holi...
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It's Time to Turn Your Thanksgiving Leftovers Into Lasagna
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Get out the pasta sheets and embrace the magic At the beginning of the pandemic, like many young-ish people, my partner and I moved back in with my mom and stepdad for a few months while we figured some shit out. It was a soft landing after an international relocation — soft because my parents are two remarkably chill people who also happen to have a pool. Except for my stepdad, we all also love to cook, so even if we wouldn't be going a...
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The Leftovers
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Can an app promising discount, end-of-day goods make a dent in America's food waste problem? When I was 12 years old, I had a brief and desultory career as a babysitter. I counted the minutes until the kids went to bed and I could make good on their parents' offer: Eat whatever snacks you like. I have no memory of the money I made or the families I worked for, but I do remember the thrill of opening other people's kitchen cabinets to find ...
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How Traditional Hidalgo-Style Barbacoa Is Made in an Underground Pit in Los Angeles
Gonzalo Ramirez's raises and butchers his own goats in a 24 hour process. Gonzalo Ramirez is one of the only barbacoyeros in the U.S. who raises and butchers his own lambs, using the meat to create traditional Hidalgo-style barbacoa that he sells street-side in Los Angeles. Ramirez and his family are fourth-generation masters of the Hidalguenese barbacoa tradition, originating from the Hidalgo state of Mexico.
After butchering, the lamb's shoulders, tailbone, spine,...
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A Honeynut Dream Cake Recipe That Will Make You Swoon
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Inspired by the Danish Drømmekage, Zoë Kanan's loaf cake marries a fluffy sponge with a gooey, crunchy topping Several autumns ago I was lucky enough to travel to Copenhagen to participate in a program for chefs from around the world. While I was there I had access to some of the most incredible and thoughtful food, made with peak-season ingredients and served in gorgeous dining rooms. It was spectacular and special, but the food memory I ret...
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Keke Palmer Weighs In on the Great Online Seasoning Debate
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"I don't want to go to anybody's house where they don't season their food." Keke Palmer is the definition of a multi-hyphenate. She's an actress who's appeared in acclaimed films like Akeelah and the Bee and Jordan Peele's Nope, a singer who's released multiple albums, a podcast host, and bonafide social media star. But she's also extremely serious about mak...
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Yes, Thanksgiving Pies Are More Expensive This Year
Alan Gastelum
Inflation isn't the only reason that bakeries like LA's Fat + Flour are charging $50 and up for pie We often presume to understand restaurant economics because we know what a chicken breast costs at the supermarket. "I could make this dish at home for $5," goes the refrain. Could we? Here, Eater looks at all the costs in a popular restaurant dish to see what goes into it, and how much profit comes out.
Despite the steady drumbeat about infla...
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Where to Dine Out Around the Country This Thanksgiving
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Leave your Thanksgiving meal this year to the professionals to save yourself the mess, and the dishes. If you're wanting to avoid the stress of cooking a huge meal for people — not to mention a mountain of dishes — leave the work to someone else this year. Eater's cities have you covered on place...
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For Ina Garten, Dinner 'Doesn't Have to Be Such a Rigid Thing'
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The doyenne of home cooking has no use for rules, but plenty of use for roast chicken and jammy eggs We all could use a little dinner inspiration — even Ali Slagle, who dreams of dinner. In "Dinner Is Served," she asks colleagues about one night when they somehow transformed ingredients into dinner with all this life going on. This month's installment: Even the Barefoot Contessa struggled to make dinner every single night du...
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Starbucks Workers Hit the Company Where It Hurts: Red Cup Day
Starbucks workers strike outside a Starbucks coffee shop. | ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images
SB Workers United is organizing strikes at 100 Starbucks locations across the country on one of the company's busiest days For the past 25 years, Starbucks has been rolling out limited-edition holiday drinks giving away special, reusable, holiday-themed cups in advance of the winter holiday season. Known as Red Cup Day, it's become an obsession among many Starbucks de...
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Stove Top Stuffing Is a Perfect Food, Actually
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Just not on Thanksgiving As Thanksgiving approaches, my mind frequently wanders to the dish I am most looking forward to preparing for the holiday: my great-grandmother's cornbread dressing. Rich with double chicken stock, tons of butter, and handfuls of aromatics, it is in my opinion the best cornbread dressing in the world. But because that dressing involves a two-day process and tons of labor, I've also had an equally strong craving for a box ...
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How the Minds Behind 'The Menu' Created an Authentic Fine Dining Hellscape
Eric Zachanowich
Star Anya Taylor-Joy, director Mark Mylod, and consulting chef Dominique Crenn on building the world's creepiest restaurant It seems counterintuitive, but for many of us, there is perhaps no feeling more pervasive in the world of fine dining than discomfort. Maybe you're shuddering at the cost of your Michelin-starred meal, or worried that your dress doesn't look quite fancy enough. It's that out-of-place feeling that The Menu, a new film ...
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A Hands-Off Recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Kimchi and Scallions
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Gregory Gourdet's Brussels sprouts are equally perfect for Thanksgiving or the average weeknight For Gregory Gourdet, the executive chef and founder of Portland, Oregon's Kann, the Thanksgiving table has always been a mix of inspirations. Born and raised in New York City by Haitian immigrant parents, Gourdet recalls large holidays dinners within the Haitian community in Queens, featuring staples like rice and beans, patties, and sweet potatoe...
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In 'Fatty Fatty Boom Boom,' Rabia Chaudry Reflects on Her Loaded Love of Food
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is on sale now, wherever books are sold. | Hachette Book Group
"My two best friends are my fat and my food; my whole life, I couldn't divorce these issues." There is plenty of joy to be found in food throughout Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family, the newest release from author Rabia Chaudry. In a vibrant recounting of her life as a Pakistani American immigrant, Chaudry (also a lawyer, advocate, and producer known ...
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Why Bordier Butter Is a Favorite Among Chefs All Over the World
They use locally sourced ingredients and machines and techniques not used by other French butter producers. The first thing you notice when you unwrap a block of Bordier butter is its yellow, creamy surface. That — and its silky texture and savory flavor — make it a favorite among French chefs. "We no longer say, 'I'm going to buy some butter,'" says Vincent Philippe, the head of cheese at Bordier. "People say, 'I'm going to buy Bordier butter.'"...
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A Kali Mirch Paneer Pasta Recipe That Blends Comfort With Innovation
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Avish Naran's riff on a traditional Indian dish is a gift to noodles everywhere Kali mirch (black pepper) paneer is a dish that embodies the spirit of Pijja Palace, the Indian sports bar I own in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood. It's pretty uncommon, it's vegetarian, it's Indian, and it can also be turned into a pretty bitching pasta sauce!
This dish has a lot of the warming spices you see everywhere this time of year — cinnamo...
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We're Bringing Fruitcake Back???
Spam's limited edition figgy pudding flavor. | Spam
Move over, sugar cookie-flavored creamer. Hello, figgy pudding Spam and "Fruit Quake" Mountain Dew. To be fair, Spam did send a warning: The email about the brand's new, limited-edition holiday flavor read, "Let's just say, it'll have you asking 'WTF?'"
That is, indeed, what I said when I opened a mailer from the company to find figgy pudding-flavored Spam, bearing the tagline "flavor, spic...
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Gifts for the Person Who Already Knows How to Use a Sous Vide
The enthusiastic home cook could use some new tools and pantry upgrades. | Eater
Twelve thoughtful gifts for the avid home cook The great thing about shopping for someone who already knows their way around the kitchen is that you don't have to worry about the basics — these are home cooks who have a go-to cutting board and pans that are perfunctory at least. That's good news for you, gift-giver: That means holiday shopping gets much more fun.
Instead of kn...
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The Great American Chestnut Revival
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A deadly fungus largely wiped out the American chestnut tree. But some farmers, scientists, and advocates are fighting to bring back the onetime culinary staple. On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher — a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe — took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of the pleasures of "a-chestnutting" during his Massachusetts boyhood: "There was fr...
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Review: If 'The Menu' Makes You Uncomfortable, That's Because It's Supposed To
Eric Zachanowich
The Ralph Fiennes movie, part horror film and part dark comedy, takes the cult of fine dining to the extreme What would you give to have the best dinner in the world? That's the question The Menu, a new film from director Mark Mylod, seeks to unravel. Would you make the pilgrimage to a tiny isolated island, throw your lot in with just a dozen other diners for the evening, and shell out more than $1,000 per person for the experience? Would you en...
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The 21 Essential Marseille Restaurants
Marseilles, France | Meghan McCarron
Sardinian ravioli served on a graffiti-covered staircase, kochari at an Egyptian cultural center, cocoa-cream tartlets topped with smoked eel from a former basketball star, and more great bites to try now in Marseille A modern Mediterranean bistro style of cooking has made Marseille one of the most exciting places to eat in Europe right now. Borrowing from the kitchens of all of the countries that surround the storied sea, the
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The Best Host Gifts to Give This Holiday Season
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Wine is fine, but these gifts are better Whether you're attending a holiday dinner party or occupying someone's guest room for a full wintry week, bringing your host a gift is paramount to thank them for their hospitality. And while something for the home bar is almost always appreciated, there's a whole world of fun housewares and kitchen gifts that last much longer than the contents of a bottle: Play y...
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A Recipe for Roasted, Smashed, and Fried Potatoes That Hits All the High Notes
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Drizzled with fish sauce caramel, Katianna and John Hong's potatoes are a sweet, savory riot of flavor This dish was originally inspired by the candied sweet potato mattang often served for dessert at Korean Chinese restaurants — it's a piece of soft, white sweet potato dipped in caramel hard-candy coating to order, served on a toothpick. It's a super sweet, fun and nostalgic treat that we love to get when we go out for Chinese food, and ...
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In Oaxaca, Try a Fancy Tasting Menu
A fancy tamale from Enrique Olvera's Oaxaca restaurant, Criollo | Monica Burton | Eater
Experience the highlights of the region's cuisine in one place This post originally appeared in the November 13, 2022, edition of Eater Travel, a biweekly dispatch from Eater's staff about navigating places where food is the main attraction. Subscribe now.
In my normal, everyday life as a restaurant-going Brooklynite, I have little interest in seeking out a tasting menu,...
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Butter Is Back and Better Than Ever
Whether you want to make a butter board, bake a batch of cookies, or reach for the European-style spread, there's a lot to know about butter Thanks to TikTok, lingering early-pandemic baking trends, and the keto dietification of American culture, there's never been a better time to be butter. The high-fat dairy all-star has come a long way since it was vilified in the '90s: You can hardly turn anywhere now without seeing it nestled next to hunks of crusty sourdough,...
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Guy Fieri's Most Memorable Thanksgiving Disaster
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"People were mad. There were some hurt feelings." Guy Fieri, the host of TV's beloved Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, undisputed mayor of Flavortown, and disaster relief devotee has inspired countless flame-shirted Halloween costumes. But the holiday he's most hyped about every single year is, predictably, Thanksgiving.
Each year, Fieri hosts between 40 and 60 people for his annual Thanksgiving dinner, which means that he's got ...
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All of Weird Al's Songs About Food, Ranked
Weird Al poses with breakfast food in 1984. | Getty Images/Bob Riha, Jr.
Food is funny, and no one knows this better than Weird Al Yankovic There is a reason a pie in the face, slipping on a banana peel, and getting pelted with tomatoes are shorthands for comedy at large. Food is funny. It's slippery and messy and makes you burp and fart. So of course it's a frequent inspiration for the world's premier parody artist, Weird Al Yankovic.
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Gifts for the Person Who'd Always Rather Be Eating
Some of the best food gifts to buy this holiday season. | Eater
It's hard to go wrong with a food gift Any time my family asks me what I want for a holiday, I say I either want something small, or something that, eventually, will be used up and not be taking up space in my 750-square-foot apartment. By that logic, there's always room for something new in the fridge and pantry.
Edible gifts are a great option for most people, because most people enjoy eatin...
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How Chicago's Oldest Chinese Bakery Makes 10,000 Bao Per Week
Chiu Quon Bakery makes 300 pounds of dough every day At Chiu Quon Bakery, the oldest bakery in Chicago's Chinatown (and one of the best bakeries in the city) bakers create Hong Kong-style pastries, including sesame balls, mooncakes, and their most popular item: char siu buns.
Chiu Quon co-owner Matthew Chiu says that while multiple people at the bakery know how to make the dough for the buns, only one man gets the honor, head baker Jin Zhao.
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A Yam Gnocchi Recipe With Jewish and African Roots
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Served with a berbere cream sauce, Ari Augenbaum's gnocchi takes its inspiration from Hungary and Ethiopia Every chef has a list of their greatest hits, the handful of go-to meals that play on repeat in their culinary repertoire. Gnocchi is high on my own list. It's one of those dishes that everyone thinks is extremely complicated but in reality is actually really easy to make. I taught my daughter, Kiera, how to make it when she was 6, and i...
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JoJo Siwa Dreams of Glittery Cranberry Sauce
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... but hates barbecue sauce. Who knew! For fans of a certain age, there's no bigger star on earth than 19-year-old JoJo Siwa. After getting her start on reality TV shows like Dance Moms, Siwa grew into a full-fledged teen pop star, recording three full-length albums and racking up appearances on Dancing With the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and even an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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On Election Day, Make Something Really Messy and Elaborate
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You can't doomscroll if your hands are covered in flour 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 the vast majority of Americans support trans rights and abortion rights. And then, you can basically wait. Polls don't close until 8 p.m. on the West Coast, and official counts can take hours, d...
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Enjoy Fall Like a Heartland Kid and Dip Your Cinnamon Rolls in Chili
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"Bowl and a roll" Fridays have endeared countless school kids across the Heartland and Great Plains to the combo, which can appear baffling to diners who haven't grown up with it When Adam Schneider first moved to Yoder, Kansas, from St. Louis and began working at Carriage Crossing Restaurant in 2000, he quickly fell in love with the restaurant's made-from-scratch cinnamon rolls. But he wasn't pre...
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Eater at Home for the Holidays
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Here are some dishes that make me feel like it's Thanksgiving: My mom's mac and cheese. My in-laws' Jewish brisket simmered with onions and ketchup. Bengali shrimp curry. Southern spoonbread. Lamb samosas. Lasagna. Some combination of these, and more, are always on the table, representing the mix of ethnicit...
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The Secret to Flaky Pie Crusts Is a Baking Steel
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Say goodbye to soggy bottoms and disappointing pie crusts This post originally appeared in the November 7, 2022 edition of The Move, a place for Eater's editors and writers to reveal their recommendations and pro dining tips — sometimes thoughtful, sometimes weird, but always someone's go-to move. Subscribe now.
A few years ago, on a random boring Sunday, I walked into my kitchen and decided I was going to once and for all learn how to make a p...
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