olive oil

What Is A Smoke Point?

Some cooking oils just can't take the heat

Jan 30, 2013 2:32 pm

When a recipe calls for safflower, soybean or peanut oil, it's not just trying to make you feel inadequate about the cooking oils readily available in your kitchen — and no, you can't substitute olive oil. We're pretty sure you're going to anyway — hey, we learn better from mistakes too — but you should know that the smoke points of olive and safflower oil are very different, which might account for the smoke slowly filling up your kitchen. Get our point?

Whatchamacallit?

How Do You Cook With Truffle Oil?

The answer will probably hurt your wallet

Dec 24, 2012 2:31 pm

After your dish is finished cooking, i.e. off the heat, out of the oven never to return, nowhere near the broiler, toss or drizzle it with a small amount of truffle oil — we're talking a teaspoon or less for two servings — and eat it ASAP. Here's why.

Design Finds

10 Design-Forward Bottles to Gift This Holiday Season

Olive oil, beer, syrup and vodka for aesthetes

Dec 20, 2012 1:02 pm

It doesn't take a boozehound or epicurean to appreciate a fine-looking bottle. If your friend happens to be one or the other, then all the merrier. From olive oil to super-small-batch beer, here are 10 sharply designed options.

Fish Dish

Poached Halibut with Baby Potato Salad Recipe

Learn to confit your fish and say goodbye to dry!

Jul 26, 2012 4:01 pm

Confit-ing — or cooking in fat — is a great technique to incorporate into your skill set. By preparing halibut using this method, you can retain the natural and delicate flavor of the fish without drying it out by overcooking, which is a common occurrence.

Main Meats

Olive Oil-Poached Veal with Lobster Schnitzel Recipe

Wow your dinner guests with a Todd English recipe

Jul 24, 2012 3:01 pm

Schnitzel is making a comeback. I walk by the schnitzel truck in NYC all the time — it's always busy and I love schnitzel!

The Wish List

The Wish List: Father's Day Edition Part 2

Found: The perfect Fathers Day gift

Jun 1, 2012 4:01 pm

Welcome to second edition of The Wish List: Fathers Day. Last week we brought you some of the most stylish Fathers Day gadgets and gifts - from linen trousers to tequila glasses made of salt. This week there's even more!

The Week In Food Politics

Trouble Brewing For the FDA. And, Sushi.

Good news for olive oil standards

Apr 6, 2012 9:01 am

It was a media-crazed week for the Food and Drug Administration. Gardiner Harris of the New York Times exposed the tensions between the FDA and the Obama administration over the White House’s meddling in FDA regulation. The FDA’s ruling on the chemical BPA upset health activists and its essential dismissal of the Just Label It campaign’s one million signatures sparked controversy.

What To Eat: Lunch

Reheat: The Grape Leaves of Wrath

Need a new way to eat rice? Try Greek dolmas

Mar 12, 2012 11:31 am

Stuffed grape leaves are a dish many people have seen and, for some odd reason, decided not to try. What could possibly be inside that shiny, dark greenish-brown parcel? Candy? Wrath? A boat? Suck it up and bite in, cause it's outrageously delicious in there.