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Fancy Food Show

A convention of the old, the new, and the ridiculous.

By Jason Wilson

I Like Candy

Some childhood things are meant to be rediscovered.

By Paula Marantz Cohen

The Cantankerous Cook

A Scream About Ice Cream

Do we really need a proscuitto dessert?

By Edward Bottone

In Season

Blueberries

Fiber and vitamins and antioxidants, oh my!

By Kayla Calabro

DIY

SYOS: Smoke Your Own Salmon

Lox is salty, and cold smoking is hard...

By Meg Favreau

Week in Food

Canned sandwiches and octopus predicting World Cup games.

By Daniella Caruso

In Season

Stone Fruit

With summer comes our peaches, plums, and all of their in-laws.

By Adrienne Hall

Week in Food

Salmon vodka, flavored greeting cards, and genetic cravings.

By Daniella Caruso

The Cantankerous Cook

Anti-Claws

Dali loved the lobster, but I do not.

By Edward Bottone

DIY

Tasty Makes

Tastykakes: in our backyard, on our menus, and in our ovens.

By Meg Favreau

Week in Food

Friendly's gluttonous sandwich, lion burgers, and more.

By Daniella Caruso

Week in Food

Smirnoff "icing," subjective restaurant pricing, and Emeril.

By Daniella Caruso

The Cantankerous Cook

Watermelon

A juicy confusion.

By Edward Bottone

Culinaria

Better Than Vegas

Tortuous waitstaff, dining room thunderstorms...

By Tony Perrottet

Week in Food

Bus meals, self-serve pints in Philly, and iPad ordering.

By Daniella Caruso

Ask a Food Scientist

Whipped Cream

What happens when we whip it?

By Phil Handel

Week in Food

A scented billboard, a new vodka ingestion method, and more.

By Daniella Caruso

DIY

Sure Bet

Good ol' sherbet - just in time for June’s heat.

By Meg Favreau

Week in Food

Week In Food

Grain alcohol whipped cream, Top Chef University, and cooking for the stoned.

By Daniella Caruso

Week in Food

Food bras, a Philly snack monstrosity, and new Coke machines.

By Daniella Caruso

Week in Food

World's strongest beer, strange Flyers game food, and White Castle candles.

By Daniella Caruso

The Cantankerous Cook

Thistle and Yawn

What’s the deal with artichokes?

By Edward Bottone

The Formerly Forbidden Fruit

Do you know the mangosteen? The mangosteen? The mangosteen?

By Meg Favreau

Ask a Food Scientist

The Asparagus Question

Why does my pee smell after I eat asparagus?

By Phil Handel

Week in Food

What's for dinner, square watermelons, and a happy meal toy ban.

By Daniella Caruso

Week in Food

JELL-O shots, 7-11 beer, supermarket nudity, crap coffee, and more.

By Daniella Caruso

Week in Food

A racist recipe, wine kegs, KFC's boob-love, and beer school.

By Daniella Caruso

DIY

Butter vs. Margarine

We begin as butter people, but do we all eventually convert?

By Meg Favreau

Culinaria

Trashed While Trashing the White House

A boozy, bloody inauguration party.

By Tony Perrottet

The Cantankerous Cook

Smell This!

Who doesn’t love a good whiff?

By Edward Bottone

The Seed Behind Your Chia

Chia seeds do more than give your clay animal an afro.

By Marisa McStravick

Week in Food

Food tattoos, female brewing, a delicious addiction, and octopus balls.

By Daniella Caruso

Science of Good Food

Flavor Compounds

Have you ever tasted "green"?

By D. Joachim, A. Schloss, P. Handel

Freezer Aisle Failures

Only the strong, or excessively processed, survive

By Meg Favreau

Week in Food

Eating intestines and pig hearts? Portion control with baby food?

By Daniella Caruso

Week in Food

A 12,000 calories per day diet? Food stamps for organic salmon?

By Daniella Caruso

Science of Good Food

Cake

Foam cakes. Shortened cakes.

By D. Joachim, A. Schloss, P. Handel

Week in Food

A car fueled by coffee? A sixth taste? Philly beer raids?

By Administrator

The Cantankerous Cook

Sweet Everything

Cakes, Tarts & Fools

By Edward Bottone

Science of Good Food

Microwave Cooking

What? How? For $5,000?

By D. Joachim, A. Schloss, P. Handel

DIY

Kimchi Frenzy

Do you love Kimchi? Are you Korean?

By Jeehyun Lee

Sneaking Snacks Into The Ritz

Julie and Julia isn’t the first food flick.

By Paula Marantz Cohen

The Cantankerous Cook

Burger Melt Down

How the burger came about. And why it needs to disappear.

By Edward Bottone

Bag Lady

You think you can buy any reusable bag? Provenance matters.

By Kathleen Volk Miller

Culinaria

The Cooking Class

Today's celebrity chefs owe thanks to the 19th century's.

By Tony Perrottet

The Cantankerous Cook

Sprinkle, Sprinkle, Little Star

In defense of salt.

By Edward Bottone

Culinaria

Black Tie and Stetson

For Buffalo Bill, leading rich New Yorkers through the West was practice.

By Tony Perrottet

Buck Wild

The hunter's life is one of untamed authenticity. But take away his gear...

By Greg Beato

Veg-o-Matic

Drink Your Vegetables

Traveling abroad? Stay veg...by hitting the bottle.

By Stefany Anne Golberg

The Cantankerous Cook

Egged!

An ode to the meanings and multiple uses of nature's wonder.

By Edward Bottone

Food Court

Wing Man

Nothing strains the human body like a hot wing-eating contest.

By Paula Marantz Cohen

DIY

Tortilla Pressed

Rescuing the flour tortilla from its mid-life crisis.

By Meg Favreau

Dispatch

Australian Grubs

The wilderness down under offers some interesting options.

By Nadav Lelkes

Point of Purchase

Johnny’s French Dip Au Jus Sauce

It's like roast beef in a bottle!

By Maggie Savarino

Culinaria

The Renaissance Art Reception

Need a dinner party menu? Ask Ovid.

By Tony Perrottet

Point of Purchase

Malta Goya Malt Beverage

What else goes over both vanilla ice cream and liver?

By Maggie Savarino

Veg-o-Matic

Come Together

There are some weird things keeping cheese in one piece.

By Administrator

DIY

Playing Ketchup

You say tomato, I say, "Oh, let's make our own ketchup!"

By Meg Favreau

Culinaria

Partying With Pablo

Gertrude Stein and Henri Rousseau are coming over. Call the caterer!

By Tony Perrottet

DIY

Feathered Friend

Goose, where you have been all my life?!

By Jordan Mackay

Point of Purchase

Bialetti Moka Express 3-Cup Coffee Maker

The best pot you can score.

By Maggie Savarino

DIY

The Seitan-ic Cult

I pity the fool who relies only on tofu.

By Meg Favreau

Veg-o-Matic

They're Just Vegetables

Dirt Candy doesn't care about your politics or your health.

By Stefany Anne Golberg

Point of Purchase

Napolean Anchovy Paste

Quite possibly the greatest secret ingredient ever.

By Maggie Savarino

Food Court

The Antagonist

One scold's guide to dangers lurking on the convenience-food landscape.

By Jonelle Seitz

Dispatch

Bottled Water World

Judging the waters of the world. In West Virginia.

By Anne Janette Johnson

Culinaria

Great Minds Drink Alike

Plato and friends were sort of like frat brothers.

By Tony Perrottet

Dispatch

Yellow Journalism

I went to the Mustard Museum and all I got was some mustard.

By EJ Levy

DIY

Ginger Beer

It's good for what ales you.

By Meg Favreau

Veg-o-Matic

In Love and War...

Go vegetarian! Here's a guide to help. From WWI.

By Stefany Anne Golberg

Culinaria

Aphrodisiac Attack

Love today is candy and flowers. In the Enlightenment it was rams' testicles.

By Tony Perrottet

Point of Purchase

A. Monteux Orange Flower Water

Florida in a bottle! In winter!

By Administrator

DIY

Working for Peanuts

Sorry, Peter Pan, but I'm Skipping you in a Jif.

By Meg Favreau

Culinaria

Divine Drunks

The ideal Roman night? Drunk and naked in the woods.

By Tony Perrottet

Veg-o-Matic

Vegetable Stand

Practice civil disobedience like Thoreau and the Kings: Go vegetarian.

By Stefany Anne Golberg

Point of Purchase

Bob's Red Mill Garbanzo Bean Flour

Up your flour power with chickpeas.

By Maggie Savarino

Kitchen Library

Alinea

An interview with Grant Achatz of the Chicago restaurant.

By Jessa Crispin

DIY

Flapper Fruit

Back in my day, we didn't have Fruit Roll-ups...

By Meg Favreau

Point of Purchase

Freekeh

Get biblical, get regular, and get your freak on with this healthy, ancient grain.

By Maggie Savarino

Dispatch

Dining with the Stars

What recession? My 450 euro lunch at Paris' greatest restaurant.

By Jordan Mackay

Dispatch

How to Eat a Pet

As a child, I had parties for my guinea pig. As an adult in Peru, I ate one.

By Lynn Levin

Culinaria

Health Nuts

Forget Atkins. Forget Weight Watchers. Try the Renaissance Diet.

By Tony Perrottet

Point of Purchase

Vignalta Herbed Salt

The salt for life.

By Maggie Savarino

Point of Purchase

Roasted Chestnuts

Why most belong in the fire.

By Maggie Savarino

Point of Purchase

Ben's Sweet Hot Mustard

One of 14 essential mustards.

By Maggie Savarino

Dispatch

All Aboard the Julbord

Swedish food, from a $1,000 meal at Aquavit to a cozy basement feast.

By Nadav Lelkes

The Cantankerous Cook

Humbug!

Let's go back to the days of Christmas trick-or-treating.

By Edward Bottone

DIY

Using The Last Beer

Making cranberry sauce with that lonely misfit brewski.

By Tyler Wilson

Gadget

Giving the Gift of Silicone

Just one word: Plastics.

By Meg Favreau

Veg-o-Matic

Homely Ceremony

Is good vegan baking a mirage?

By Stefany Anne Golberg

Culinaria

The Futurist Cookbook

Dishes only a fascist could love.

By Tony Perrottet

Week in Food

Milking It

On children, cows, and breasts.

By Meg Favreau

DIY

Nook-And-Cranny Envy

It's time to show the English muffin some respect.

By Meg Favreau

Food Court

Living Next to Wendy's

Why my home smells like a Baconator.

By Jesse Smith

Dispatch

Sacrebleu!

An American pastry chef in a Paris kitchen?!

By Amy Serafin

The Cantankerous Cook

Proust Didn't Eat Mac 'n' Cheese

Only children should eat from a box.

By Edward Bottone

The Scoop

Hand-Pulled Noodle Soup for the Soul

On reviving an ancient comfort food.

By Kara Zuaro

Point of Purchase

Mae Ploy Sweet Chili Sauce

Meet your new dipping sauce. It'll make you reconsider crab rangoon.

By Maggie Savarino

A Tree Falling In the Forest

Or, is molecular gastronomy art?

By Jeehyun Lee

Week in Food

Sidelined

Pity the poor side dish on Thanksgiving.

By Meg Favreau

Reviews
Top Recipes

Tuesdays at Meritage: vacation to veganism.

by Trevor Dye
Does Philly have a worthwhile all-you-can-eat sushi spot??

by Meg Favreau
A gringo’s North Philly escape.

by Emily Callaghan
Care to imbibe on the roof tonight? A deck? A balcony?

by Emily Callaghan
If Buddha were a veg’head, how would he fare?

by Trevor Dye