Some Seafood Dishes Are Winning Over New Crowds. Seafood is divisive, especially for diners who don't enjoy strong flavors, unfamiliar textures, or childhood meals that were forced on them. Yet restaurants and home cooks increasingly…
There’s a Person Hiding on the Menu. Plenty of familiar foods have names that sound as though they simply appeared out of nowhere, but some actually belong to real people. Chefs have immortalized everyone from…
Grow It Yourself. Groceries getting too expensive? Here's a solution you might not have thought of: grow produce at home. Believe it or not, you don't need to be an expert gardener to sprout some…
Nobody Was in a Hurry Back Then. Before refrigeration and industrial shortcuts a lot of food simply took as long as it took, and nobody expected otherwise. Fermentation and aging weren't inconveniences to engineer around;…
Are You Sure It’s Italian?. Italian cuisine has spread so widely that plenty of dishes now feel like they’ve always belonged in Italy, even when they actually started somewhere else or were heavily reinvented by…
Worth The Wait. Some foods come with rules nobody wrote down but everyone somehow learned anyway, with timing restrictions passed along through family tradition, religious calendars, or old-fashioned superstition. A few of these rules come…
Looks Better Every Year. Something shifts around midlife. It's not that food changes. It's what you want for dinner. The meal that sounds the best on a Tuesday night isn't the one with the longest…
Small Costs, Big Markups. Most of us probably head to restaurants to skip cooking at home. Sure, you could probably whip up some pancakes or make eggs and avocado toast yourself, but nothing beats a…
Don't Be Fooled By Healthy-Sounding Menu Options. Restaurant menus are packed with meals that sound nutritious only because they contain words like “grilled,” “fresh,” “vegetable,” or “protein.” Yet you have to consider that preparation methods,…
