The Sazerac can claim a more elite status, carrying the legal title of New Orleans' official cocktail. But, the frozen daiquiri is far more ubiquitious around town."There’s virtually nowhere you can go in the city and not see a daiquiri bar, or a restaurant that serves daiquiris," says Paris White, beverage manager at Pelican Bay,…
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Ever feel self-conscious trying to understand the world of reading wine labels? Think about all the things you actually can do really well.
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Adding color and seasonality, this NYC bartender offers up his own martini variation that tastes like one at first, but evolves into something different.
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Though many have ordered caipirinhas, few drinkers have experienced the nuances of a high-quality cachaça on its own or its versatility in cocktails.
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Most of the focus of cocktail events is on members of the industry and on selling the brands. That’s where the San Antonio Cocktail Conference stands apart.
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Look for more cartoons from the book in the weeks to come. And remember, no amount of wine (of any kind of vintage) will make a boring story any better.
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Tea rarely appears in cocktails, but it’s easy to see similarities between teas and flavors found in liqueurs. Try out this scotch and chamomile tea drink.
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Starting today, coffee shops from sea to shining sea will partner with coffee news site Sprudge to raise donations for the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Louisiana's signature Cajun food is a vibrant, spicy mix. Check out our favorite Cajun recipes for Mardi Gras, and don't party on an empty stomach!
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These chubby flavor packets, culurgiones, are easy enough to make at home any night of the week yet fancy enough to delight your loved ones.
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It's the best piece of the chicken! Pick up a pack today and get ready to spin this succulent cut into any of our creative ways to use chicken thighs.
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We visited subjects in Bavarian sausages, Burmese cuisine, Finland's school lunches and Italian olive oils. All that and more on this week's hot topics.
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Here are 15 of our very favorite vegetarian brunch dishes for a delicious weekend meal. Load up on the fresh produce and heathy fiber!
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Ensuring that nobody is left out of the healthy meal kit craze — not vegans, carnivores or the gluten-free — is Thistle Baby, a meal kit for baby food.
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While covering the newcomers and gallivanting around, as we're wont to do, here are a few NYC restaurant trends we picked up on.
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Not all olive oil is created or treated equally. Chef Teddy Diggs lets us know about what to look for and what to avoid when cooking and shopping.
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Researchers at Sweden's Lund University have discovered a way to "shock" fresh herbs in order to preserve that unmistakable taste.
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We have lots of creative rice dishes from all over the world, from Italy, Spain and the U.S. to the Middle East and of course Asia. Pick your grain!
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Of all the sausages in the world, Bavarian native chef Daniel Kill of NYC's Paulaner will choose bratwurst over other any sausages, any day.
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Finnish students are among the the highest-performing test-takers in the world. Is their school lunch program part of the formula?
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We were very chef-focused this week at FR. We paid a visit to Olmsted in Brooklyn to see how Greg Baxtrom makes his rutabaga pasta, plus way more!
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There's no doubt that the restaurant and food industries will continue to perform outreach, strike or raise funds to support local and national charities.
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We were thrilled to connect with Speedy Romeo chef-owner Justin Bazdarich and film him providing us with essential techniques to making pizza at home.
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Lorighittas — braided pasta — are delicate twists on homemade Italian cuisine and worth the hard work. Roll them at home with just a handful of ingredients.
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Time for a breakfast quiz: What are shirred eggs? Grab a ramekin and some toast for dipping, because you're about to make a friend.
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Speech@NYU has produced a dysphagia cookbook focused on improving the quality of life of patients who have trouble speaking, chewing and swallowing.
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A new article about the motives of some of President Donald J. Trump's top political donors just exposed an unexpected cookie connection.
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It's also called voodoo lily, konjaku, konnyaku potato, elephant yam and snake palm, and it grows in Japan, China and Indonesia. But what is konjac, really?
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Worried about the fat? Don't be, you'll stay fuller longer with a little butter in your diet. Check out these 15 recipes with butter as a main component.
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From America to Germany and beyond, here are five innovative ways the world is making steady progress in fighting food waste.
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At Massoni, his new Italian restaurant in Manhattan, Dale Talde steams whole orata, then uses an unusually global array of flavors to jack up the fish dish.
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It's yellowfoot chanterelle season! This particular fungi will lend your meal a splash of color to help brighten up the cold-weather doldrums.
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Welcome to Illustrated Kitchen Hacks. For the Korean food fiend, here's how to make zero-effort kimchi pickled eggs, presented in this easy-to-use visual format. Here are a few other hacks that may prove useful. Now you have absolutely no reason, including a short attention span, not to fire up the most Instagrammable garnish for bibimbap, noodles, soup…
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Chances are that you've heard of vanilla extract and paste, but what is vanilla powder? And more importantly, how do you use it?
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If you're ready to start eating pho like a pro, pick up a copy of Andrea Nguyen's "The Pho Cookbook." Kick it off by learning how to garnish a bowl of pho.
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In the midst of a snowstorm, we were all about staying warm and treating ourselves. From making simple chocolates at home and deep-frying egg yolks to figuring out what to do in New York City in chilly February, we kept it light and fun this week. We also found the secrets to making the best…
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Out of plates? Consider a hearty slab of toast. Nah, we're joshing, you'll still need a plate. But if the thought of another "something pasta" dinner makes you sad, switch things up with toast. Not sad white toast, interesting toast. Marble rye, sourdough and crusty Italian toast. Toast with substance. Bonus: all these recipes would…
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Incredibly versatile, capunti can be rustic or fancy, takes less than hour to make, and suits any sauce, while holding on to flavor perfectly.
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In honor of National Pizza Day, enjoy 10 of the best homemade pizza recipes we've ever posted. Bust out of your rut tonight!
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What can take the blandness of beef tenderloin and help transform it into beef Wellington? Dough. And there’s nothing quite made for dough like pot pies!
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Dale Talde has strong opinions about pizza. In this National Pizza Day video, the chef talks about the best pizza city, and the crucial late-night slice.
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If making chocolates is something you've always wanted to do, try your hand at mendiants. What is a mendiant? A super-simple dessert you can make at home!
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There is something so elemental about gathering friends and family around a beautifully fried whole fish and going at it with chopsticks. We like to use sea bass, but you can also use red snapper, flounder, striped bass or a small grouper. The trick is making cuts into the fish’s body beforehand so you can…
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As one can imagine, a documentary about caviar is probably not cheap to produce. That's where Kickstarters and your help comes in.
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Jehangir Mehta, food waste crusader, focuses squarely on efficiency, responsible sourcing, food-waste awareness and creative repurposing at Graffiti Earth.
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The cold weather is not necessarily such a bad thing — not in the world of NYC dining, at least. Here are ten ideas to explore this month.
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Cummins, along with partner chefs and brewers, takes the skills and tools of beer making to the kitchen to take Brewed Food trend beyond cooking with beer.
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You may know it now as the popular suburban chain restaurant, but back in the day, TGI Fridays was the place to be if you were young and single in NYC.
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This week we tested things out and got tested as well. Sounds, bread, Facebook outreach; find out
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You can create pro-level pizza dough in the pants-optional comfort of your kitchen. Joe Heffernan of Seattle's drool-worthy Independent shows us how.
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Mimi Cheng's wastED dumplings are a perfect example of food waste reduction awareness. And they're super-healthy for you, too!
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[embedImage=https://i0.wp.com/www.foodrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pomelo_0.jpeg?resize=640%2C640] Let's be honest: February is not the month to be shopping at the farmers' market. Yet there are still tasty finds to be had, namely in the citrus department. To be fair, only a few choice places grow said lemons, oranges, grapefruit and clementines. That doesn’t mean they don't deserve a shout-out. Of course,…
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The good folks at San Francisco-based start-up ReGrained granola bars are thirsty for the potential opportunities the craft brewing industry presents.
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According to science (one of my favorite things), I'm not allergic to sourdough bread. I can have bread that's not gluten-free Udi's, which is the worst.
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Some cafés are unplugging their routers and banning laptops all together in order to grow profits. Is this a start to a new trend?
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If you haven't heard the old-school indie goodness that is Generationals, there's no time like the present. I spoke with guitarist Ted Joyner, New Orleans native and the self-professed "least food-obsessed" of the three. That said, he's still pretty food-obsessed and took a regular Good Food Rocks question to the rest of the band, who…
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Making bread from scratch can be a frustrating experience. Can the Fourneau bread oven help you replicate a bakery experience at home?
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Chefs Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth cook some of New York City's best fried chicken. They just took on the challenge of running a pop-up in Puerto Rico.
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Lucky for us, New York City (home of FR headquarters) is hosting its first fermentation festival on Saturday, February 25 at the Brooklyn Expo Center.
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[embedImage=https://www.foodrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tumblr_nexkdpMAAo1sc7gnzo1_r2_1280.jpg] [embedImage=https://www.foodrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tumblr_nexkdpMAAo1sc7gnzo6_r1_1280.jpg] Leave it to SweetGreen, every salad lover's personal heaven, to highlight the faults in American public-school lunch. It's not hard to actually be kind of jealous of the typical French third-grader's cafeteria tray, as I've mentioned before. While the chain's foray into school lunch around the world is most definitely styled for the camera, it's…
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Restaurants around the U.S. are closing today in solidarity with Day Without Immigrants, a protest against Trump administration immigration policies.
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This Sunday marked the 17th annual Jean Banchet Awards, the only Chicago-based awards presentation that honors the city's own food and drink talent. Between cocktail attire, flowing champagne and an edge-of-seat experience for audience nominees, it’s easy to liken this event to another awards ceremony for which Chicago has become known: the James Beard Awards,…
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The 2017 James Beard Award nominations came out yesterday. Check out these original Food Republic videos on a few of this year's nominees.
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Kind Bar founder Daniel Lubetzky has made a fortune off his Kind bars. Now he wants to share the wealth, launching Feed the Truth.
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This morning, the James Beard Foundation announced the chef and restaurant semifinalists for its annual James Beard Awards program. Here they are.
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The SteakAger is a new appliance that demystifies dry-aging, making it more accessible to home cooks. Carnivores everywhere will rejoice!
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"So, what do you do?" "Oh, I grow lamps from mushroom mycelium." Try to tell us your last conversation with an artist was more interesting than that. Brooklyn-based designer Danielle Trofe creates her MushLume lighting collection by combining the innate instinct of fungi to take over their environment with the modern marvels of 3-D printing. The result: beautiful, distinctive pieces…
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It's obvious that Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk, is very serious about sustainability, the locavore movement and "real food."
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In honor of Black History Month, Marcus Samuelsson of Red Rooster in New York City's Harlem designed a $85 prix fixe menu to be served all month long.
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Vacations are just too precious to not get right. Travel Channel's new show "Trip Testers" helps you decide if a destination is worth your time and money.
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In honor of our annual Healthy Living Month, we reached out to chefs about their routines. Here's what we learned about chefs' diets and fitness practices.
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Online music site Pitchfork is branching into the beer world with October, a site dedicated to the stuff. It will also be producing videos and podcasts.
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Writers read. Chefs eat. Filmmakers watch. Bartenders drink, but not all. Some of today's most successful bartenders have given up the bottle. Here's why.
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Authentic Chinese hot and sour soup is a dish every fan of weeknight takeout should master. Here's the technique — try it at home!
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Turn to the experts at Southern Living magazine’s test kitchen for an authentic oysters Rockefeller recipe you'll use again and again.
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Samantha Skaggs devoted an entire cookbook to making the most of your slow-cooker. Let's hear it for chicken alfredo tortellini!
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My good friend and accomplished amateur cook Jean-Michel Valette speaks fondly of his childhood days in France, when he often visited his grandmother, who lived in Vouvray in the Loire Valley. The dish he loved best was her stuffed whole cabbage. When I pressed him for details, all he could remember is that she used…
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Who just loves to set it and forget it? This succulent slow-cooker bacon-wrapped pork loin is what's for dinner tonight. Get glazing!
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Grab a copy of "Marbled, Swirled and Layered" and get ready to impress some folks with this "nostalgic" marshmallow-filled chocolate cake.
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Alain Ducasse's Lyonnaise salad is served as an elevated, elegant verrine, just waiting to wow your dinner party guests. Learn how to make it right here.
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Grab a copy of "Marbled, Swirled and Layered" and get ready to impress some folks! Start with these wonderfully simple cinnamon honey bun cookies.
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Bake outside your comfort zone with Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice. This bright winter citrus galette is the cure for the cold weather blues.
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China: The Cookbook is exactly what you need for your wok-fired hankering. Tonight, we're learning how to make char kway teow.
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Food writer Colu Henry has a new cookbook out packed with simple, inventive and classic pasta dishes, like this fresh, spicy crab fra diavolo.
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Try this Buddha bowl recipe on for size after a killer workout — it's as fresh and delicious as it is beautiful to look at.
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Join London health enthusiast Kimberly Parsons for these buckwheat beet wraps, ready to roll up veggies and lean proteins for a fortified lunch.
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Every lover of poultry and Asian food needs a Chinese soy sauce chicken recipe in their life. Make this glossy, savory delight for dinner tonight.
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Ina Garten's apple pie bars are a simple way to get a beloved dessert on the table, fast! You may never bake a whole pie again!
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We’re...can we even say it? We’re just nuts about Nut Butters, the all-spread cookbook from recipe blogger Mary Loudermilk. Once you’ve perused her impressive selection of delicious pulverized nuts, including almonds, hazelnuts, pecans and more, you’ll never open a store-bought jar of peanut butter again. Ready your sandwich bread, crackers, celery stalks — it’s chipotle…
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The Luke's Lobster grilled cheese, now fully in season, is a treat to be savored. Grab some crab and a sturdy pan and get frying!
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Learn how to make flaedelsuppe, a German crepe soup that just might be your new favorite thing in a bowl. Grab a ladle and a non-stick pan!
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From the classic to the vegan and even fruit-based, there’s a poke recipe for you, like this Thai mussel poke we can't stop recommending to everyone.
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Join Hawaiian food writer and editor Martha Cheng through a poke journey you won't forget, starting with learning how to make a Korean poke bowl.
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Explore the world of skinny soups that are big on flavor. This sweet potato and pomegranate soup is vibrant, healthy and easy to make.
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Lisa Q. Fetterman's book shows you how to pull off restaurant-grade fare at home. Learn how to make sous vide butter-poached lobster and wow your guests!
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Ready to add some NOLA style to your hot dog game? Learn how to make muffuletta dogs and never go back, thanks to Southern Living Magazine.
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This foie gras butter recipe requires specialized instruction, but is worth the effort. Spread it on toasted baguette for a sumptuous treat.
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Get up-to-speed with the rapidly evolving sous-vide movement with this recipe. Ready to learn how to make deep-fried egg yolks?
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This cheddar-herb monkey bread may sound like a big messy project, but it's actually very easy and a major crowd-pleaser!
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We love breaking out of a brunch rut with an exotic dish from a far-off land. It's not like they don't have brunch dishes in Morocco, they just don't necessarily serve them with mimosas. But you can.This dish is made with mini-meatballs called kefta, which stay juicy cooked in a dish with a cumin and…
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And all of a sudden, it was casserole season. The baking dishes crept out of their hiding places and heavy cream found itself in our fridges. Get back into the season of warm, melty, cheesy baked casseroles with this potato, bacon and cheese bake from renowned test kitchen chef Pamela Clark. What kind of cheese?…
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Welcome to America's Test Kitchen, the promised land of troubleshooting your most basic cooking fails and fixing problems you never knew you had. The editors' new cookbook: The Make-Ahead Cook, is an ever-useful guide that will unobtrusively lead you away from the the take-out menus and back into the kitchen where a much better dinner awaits…
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St. Louis chef and restaurateur Gerard Craft shares this crunchy pig skin popcorn recipe. It may require calling around to local butchers to see if they carry pig skin, or calling in advance to request it.We had always had different versions and techniques of making pig cracklins at Niche. When we opened Taste, we wanted…
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Jen Yee is the pastry chef at NYC’s Lafayette Grand Café and Bakery, an expansive all-day bakery and restaurant in the heart of New York’s NoHo neighborhood. Yee’s kitchen mastery and innovation have launched her baked goods and sweets to the top of dessert aficionados’ most-wanted lists. Know what’s hot right now? Jen does, and she’s using it…
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Root to Leaf is one of our favorite vegetarian cookbooks of the year. If you’re a fan of celebrated chefs who use every bit of their raw materials, please welcome to your kitchen James Beard-nominated chef Steven Satterfield. His award-winning Atlanta restaurant, Miller Union, serves simple, upscale, imaginative vegetable dishes that you can easily re-create at home. …
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Bring a taste of Sicily right into your home kitchen. Ever made a Sicilian rice timballo? Get ready to fall in love with our favorite new cheesy rice dish.
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If you’ve ever needed one cookie book, Dorie’s Cookies is the end-all, be-all. These chocolate-cornflake haystacks are sure to be your new favorite.
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Push a hard-boiled egg through a wire cooling rack to make uniform cubes that make perfect chopped egg and potato salad in no time flat!
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From James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author Michele Scicolone, who brought us New York Times' bestseller The Soprano Family Cookbook, comes The Italian Vegetable Cookbook. No gabagool here, folks. But none needed, either. Italian vegetable preparations are superb on their own, particularly when they're tossed with pasta and smoked mozzarella and baked. In Naples, spaghetti and…
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From the blog Adventures in Cooking comes a great poultry book. Watch your hungry crowd descend upon these sweet and sour fried chicken wings.
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I’m in Uganda, exploring the craft-cocktail scene at Kampala Cocktail Week. Can one find a good drink in a developing capital in the near-center of Africa?
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For those of you who are stuck at home dreaming of fantasy travel options, these cookbooks should quell the cravings (and inspire you to make plans!). From Cuba and Persia to Macao and Rome, these books won’t cover the entire world, but do offer a great mix of some of the most famous cuisines. We even…
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A review of the Monverde Hotel in Portugal, a luxurious eco hotel that features its own winery, spa and fine-dining restaurant.
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Katie Parla is a Roman food expert, writer and traveler extraordinaire. We asked her about how she researches her trips and tips of the trade.
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“Sa pi bi la?” The sound of this cheerful greeting echoes throughout the busy streets and local shops in Myanmar. Ready for a Burmese food primer?
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Skip the fancy ski areas and head for this less-crowded haven. Here's where to eat in Steamboat Springs. Your taste buds will thank you.
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Seattle sometimes gets overshadowed by its smaller neighbor to the south, Portland, but its food scene is gaining national notoriety. Here's where to eat.
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Looking to escape the cold — and eat well — this winter? Allow us to tell you all about the Brazilian Court Hotel on Florida's Palm Beach Island.
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Update your travel itinerary with some food fests and sample more local offerings than your extensively planned back-to-back "bang bang" dinners.
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We visit Abruzzo every year to deepen our understanding of the region and to look for new dishes to bring back. It’s our inspiration and refuge.
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Create your own awesome Dream Couples' Ski Trip Extravaganza with your friends of choice in the beautiful winter resort town of Stratton, Vermont.
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We’ve traveled around North America in search of the best winter weekend getaways, encompassing both warm- and cold-weather destinations.
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