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The Kitchen Counter Cooking School

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

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

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.

Never Cook Naked

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

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

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

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.

Cooking with Scrambled Legs

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.

New York (Food) Diaries

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.

Comfort Me With Gnocchi

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.

How to Woo Women–Well, Kinda

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.

Cheez Doodles Français-Style

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.

Pastry Paris

Pastry Paris

In Paris, everything looks like dessert. Or so sees Susan Hochbaum, who finds her muse in sweet sculptures of butter, cream, and sugar at every turn.

Hungoevr, er, Hangover Cures

Hungoevr, er, Hangover Cures

You may not be thinking this now, but with this stash of hangover fixes both tempting and therapeutic, you can snatch hope from failure, triumph from despair. Milton Crawford explains.

New Year’s Brunch: A Karmic Cup Runneth Over

New Year’s Brunch: A Karmic Cup Runneth Over

Who says entertaining has to be a hassle? A self-proclaimed brunch girl divulges her nifty, not-intimidating, get-it-over-while-everyone’s-hungover approach.

Nespresso, My Love Machine

Nespresso, My Love Machine

Rosecrans Baldwin muses about his decades-long relationship with coffee, as a espresso enthusiast, coffee aficionado, and flat-out Nespresso addict.

Missed Connections

Missed Connections

For artist Sophie Blackall, the Missed Connections column affords more than just moments of vicarious love, loss, and regret. It tenders lasting inspiration for her sweet, poignant, whimsical artwork.

Entertaining Thoughts

Entertaining Thoughts

Chef Patrick O’Connell reflects on entertaining in a bygone era and muses about the real reason his mom entertained–and why his approach differs so dramatically from hers.

Thanksgiving Disaster 1: The Bird’s Still Frozen

Thanksgiving Disaster 1: The Bird’s Still Frozen

Nothing can stop Thanksgiving dinner–not rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor a bird that’s still frozen solid a few hours before you intend to say grace.

Thanksgiving Disaster 2: The Bird’s Too Big for the Oven

Thanksgiving Disaster 2: The Bird’s Too Big for the Oven

You know the rule: one pound of turkey per guest. But when your back-of-the-envelope calculations say you need a behemoth, what to do? We have answers.