The Kitchen Counter Cooking School

An existential crisis and a chance supermarket encounter prompt cooking school grad Kathleen Flinn to stumble onto her true calling.

Chocolate Chip Cookies and Red Cowboy Boots

After devoting decades to (unsuccessfully) replicating her grandmother’s chocolate-chip cookies, Kimberley Lovato discovers that she’s more like her grandma than she’d imagined.

Stumbling into Motherhood

Author and mom Anne Enright sniffs babies up and down, then holds nothing back as she relays what each precious smell calls to mind.

Our First Al Fresco Dinner of the Season

David and The One sit down to their first backyard dinner of the season, a very candid, unstyled, non-fussed affair.

Leite’s Loves…Laguiole Steak Knives

A splurge at Anthropologie reveals some unabashedly girlie French knives with an unmistakably masculine appeal.

Never Cook Naked

Our Never Cook Naked columnists, Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein, share lots more lessons than just proper cooking attire.

Besotted with Brisket

Why exactly does a flaccid, four-pound, gray-brown piece of beef shaped roughly like the state of Tennessee inspire Proustian prose and evoke deep pleasure?

Eggs and Other Easter Oddities

Sometimes it’s not a bad thing to take a hard look at those things we never stop to consider. Jennifer Thompson Trainer takes on an Easter essential.

A Manly Man’s Sippy Cup

We’ve all experienced moments of brilliance in which the stars align and the angels sing and we see the everyday anew. Rick Casner shares his most recent revelation.

Testing 1, 2, 3—I’m Hosting Martha Stewart Living Radio

Catch David as he hosts the Martha Stewart Living Radio program "Cooking Today" March 26, 28, and 30 from 3 pm EDT/12 pm PDT. And don’t forget to call in at 866-675-6675.

Cooking with Scrambled Legs

Having a kid who lacks the strength to stand at the kitchen counter beside her turned Jess Thomson’s world upside down. Here’s how she’s returning her family’s life to right side up.

Leite’s Loves…Whirley Pop

So long, microwave. We’ve found a far more reliable contraption for popping popcorn, and it’s dancing buttery circles around you. Jenna Levy says good riddance.

New York (Food) Diaries

A recently published collection of journal entries indulges our inner voyeur with four centuries of all manner of curious culinary moments. Lovers of diaries, enjoy.

Wiggle It, Just a Little Bit—Duck Stock, That Is

David tries his hand–and The One’s patience–at making a luxuriously rich, make-you-go-wobbly-in-the-knees duck stock. And he succeeds, on all counts.

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Comfort Me With Gnocchi

In Uruguay, the 29th has long been heralded as the Day of the Gnocchi, a harbinger of luck. But for these lovers, eventually that luck ran its course.

Blizzard Beef

Beef chuck, Worcestershire, and water are all that’s needed to make this falling-apart-tender braised beef that’s fit for a blizzard–even when it refuses to snow.

How to Woo Women–Well, Kinda

Jonathan Dixon long ago discovered that the way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach…or so he thought.

A Very AARP Valentine’s Day

David, always the list maker, puts together one that lets him see just what his life would look like had he not met The One all those years ago.

Cheez Doodles Français-Style

A year in Paris can rid an American of many an uncivilized habit. But as Adam Ried explains, a dependency on Cheez Doodles isn’t one of them.

A Bolognese Sauce to Appease the Grandmother Within

Is there anything more soothing than standing before a big, slowly burbling pot of Bolognese and stirring for hours? We didn’t think so.

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