A Helpful Guide To Japanese Yakitori
While skewers featuring all sorts of meats and veggies are popular in restaurants in the U.S. and Japan, we’re sticking with the original preparations.
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Watch This Short Film About Tejuino, Mexico's Fermented Corn Drink
In this short film, we learn the technique behind Mexico's fermented corn drink, tejuino.
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You Could Be Drinking This Beer For Breakfast
Some mornings, all you want to do is drink beer for breakfast, as the Replacements once mused. Thanks to Dogfish Head's latest endeavor, we can do just that. Behold: Beer for Breakfast Stout.The beer goes beyond a traditional coffee stout with the addition of pork scrapple, leftover bits from pig butchery that are chopped, boiled, spiced,…
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Keep It Organized: A Four-Dish Thanksgiving Timer
Who among us hasn't helped calm the host of an important holiday dinner when they realized (insert dish here) never made it to the table? Who among us hasn't been the host who forgot the rolls and went in an hour later to retrieve whole-wheat charcoal briquettes? When your phone, microwave and egg timers combined aren't enough,…
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Thanksgiving Roundup: Sauces And Gravies
There are so many delicious things to drizzle atop your Thanksgiving turkey, from the classic giblet gravy to a modern version made with peppercorns and sweet Riesling. Or you can zest things up with a flavorful orange-cardamom cranberry sauce. Then there’s cranberry mustard for the ham, chive butter sauce for the mashed potatoes and an…
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Check Out This Illustrated Crash Course In Wine Tasting
Food and art pair quite well. Julia Rothman is definitely familiar with this notion. In the third book of her Anatomy series, Rothman enlists the help of James Beard Award–winning journalist Rachel Wharton and illustrates nearly everything there is to know about food. Not only is Food Anatomy easy on the eyes, it’s also educational. Within its pages…
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Egg On! Watch All Your Favorite Chef Tricks At Benihana
Ever wish you could hit a button and slow down the flashing, clanking, tossing, slicing and dicing routine of the talented teppanyaki chefs at Benihana? Your lime-juggling party trick pales in comparison. Put that instant fried rice craving on the back burner for just a few minutes more and check out this video. With years of…
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How To Make Slow-Cooker Stuffed Turkey Tenderloins
Hearty, rib-sticking food doesn’t have to pack a day’s worth of calories. Gina Homolka, author of the wildly popular blog Skinnytaste, has a new collection of hearty slow-cooker recipes out that pump up the flavor and nutrition and cut out the fillers. Best of all, you can set it and forget it! These turkey tenderloins, stuffed…
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Death & Company Reveals New Menu Design
To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, New York cocktail institution Death & Company is launching a redesign of its iconic cocktail tome.A decade ago, the small East Village bar established a new standard for cocktail culture at a time when cocktail culture wasn’t really a thing. The trend took off, and over the past decade urbanites…
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National Restaurant Chains Are Taking A Stand Against Porn
Hear the word “porn” in connection with a restaurant, and undoubtedly your mind will wander to “food porn” — that overused, all-encompassing term that describes some sort of visually enticing dish, loaded with glamorous toppings or oozing with cheese and often shared on some type of social media channel. But it turns out it’s the more conventional, non-food-related…
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Where To Eat And Drink In Taipei And Taichung, Taiwan
The Taiwanese are food lovers, from their eye-popping night markets to a wealth of street food and cheap eats. Here's where to eat in Taipei and Taichung.
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Brooklyn Restaurant Take Root Is Donating $10 Per Check To Planned Parenthood This Week
Like many other restaurateurs and chefs, Elise Kornack and Anna Hieronimus of Brooklyn's Take Root have been vocal on social media about their concern over the election of Donald Trump in last week's presidential race. Now, they're putting their money where their mouth is. The restaurant, which charges $125 for chef Kornack's highly acclaimed tasting menu, just…
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Food Recycler Turns Scraps Into Fertilizer In 24 Hours
Composting leftover organic material from your daily life is eco-friendly, not to mention the responsible thing to do. Traditionally, it's also a commitment to turning a large pile of warm, rotting this-and-that with a shovel every couple of weeks until the finished product is ready. Not anymore. Enter: The Zera Food Recycler, a DIY fertilizer…
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Ben & Jerry's Looks For A Sweeter Post-Election Future
The ice cream–churning hippies at Ben & Jerry's have released a sweet and optimistic call for unity in video form.Titled "One Sweet World," the short animated film depicts a sour lemon, with a swoop of hair that we're familiar with, running for office in Coneville on the basis of a lemon-supremacist campaign. Signs at a…
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Green Scene: Kale, Pea And Ricotta Fritters Recipe
Donna Hay, Australia's go-to home cook, has a new collection of recipes out that will inspire you to eat more healthfully while sacrificing nothing in terms of flavor and aesthetics. Whether you're making yourself a casual lunch or masterminding an upscale dinner party, this is one book that will help ensure that everyone is nourished, satisfied…
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Fall Salad Recipes To Brighten Your Table
People take salad the wrong way sometimes. As in, "salads are not fall fare." Below are our favorite seasonal salads for everyone, from the carrot-obsessed to the kale purist, beet-loving and octopus-curious. Make these colorful dishes before these lovely veggies disappear from farmers’ markets.
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How Can Restaurants Fix The Kitchen Staffing Crisis?
Next time you run into a chef, don’t ask how they're doing. Chances are, the answer will not be a smile and a “Fine, thanks, how are you?” More likely it will be some sort of frustration-fueled rant about staffing: “I can’t find line cooks, I don’t have a sous, I need a chef de…
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Burger Flips, Illustrations, Gramercy Tavern: 10 Hot Topics On Food Republic
In an attempt to distract ourselves from a whirlwind week, we hit the books. The Spice Companion, Craft Burgers and Crazy Shakes From Black Tap and Food Anatomy were some of our top choices, to be exact. We also found fun in building the perfect sandwich, cooking with wine and upcoming television shows (featuring Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart!). One of…
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Here's How To Use Gose Beer In Cocktails
Despite the growing popularity of beer cocktails, the almost limitless combinations make it feel like we’ve only just begun to taste what’s possible.
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We're Thankful For Dale Talde's Thanksgiving Ramen Recipe
New York City chef Dale Talde is a former Top Chef star and co-owner of a growing mini-empire of Brooklyn restaurants with partners David Massoni and John Bush (the Three Kings, if you will). These include his namesake Talde, with additional locations in Jersey City and Miami, and the seasonal Thistle Hill Tavern.We’ve asked chef to slide us some of…
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FResh List: Chinese Crepes, D.C.'s Dining Scene And 20 Or So Other Obsessions Of The Week
Welcome to the FResh List! Every Friday morning, the dedicated staffers in FR’s New York City office compile a list of all the random things on their minds about the world of food and drink and beyond, as well as some names to know. 1. José Andrés.2. Marco Canora.3. LocoL pop-ups.4. Jennifer Steinhauer.5. Jiangbing.6. Aaron Silverman.7. Wagamama.8. Natasha…
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How To Make Pecan Pie. Bourbon Included.
When it comes to building deep, delicious flavor, pecan pie has it all. The molten, molasses goodness of brown sugar, the aroma of real vanilla that permeates every room of your house and reminds you that a vanilla pod really is the fruit of a flower, and, of course, the pecans themselves. This version of the…
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Why Are Bolivian Chefs Going Crazy For Coca Leaves?
Cooking with marijuana has long been the inspiration for culinary clubs and cookbooks in the United States, but cooking with another taboo green leaf is picking up speed in Bolivia.Coca leaves are what Coca-Cola is named after, and as you may know, they're the raw material from which cocaine is derived. According to A.V. Club, the people of…
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Britain Is Already Winning The Holiday Sandwich Game
We know it as the Thanksgiving sandwich: Turkey, stuffing, cranberries, a layer of sweet potato if you're feeling adventurous, maybe a little bacon, mayo or spinach for flair. In England, it's the Christmas sarnie, and it is a Big Thing that hits shops and supermarkets this week. British purveyors and chains create an annual spin…
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