Photo: Claire Lower The Right StuffingThe Right StuffingIt’s turkey time, which means you may or may not be freaking out about how to prepare the biggest meal of the year. Don’t worry, we here...
Photo: Claire Lower True grits are usually made with dried, ground hominy—corn that has been soaked in an alkaline solution to render it more nutritious and delicious. This is harder to find in the...
Photo: Claire Lower This is my finishing salt, my snack salt, the salt I cannot live without. I put it on ice cream, I put it on dark chocolate, I put it on every...
Photo: Claire Lower You probably already know that wrapping beautiful little wedges of cheese in clingy plastic wrap is a bad thing to do. Cheese is a treat that demands—and deserves—a little respect, a...
Nobody waffles like Sara Lee.Photo: Claire Lower Frozen cake is an underrated convenience item, and Sara Lee makes a pretty good one. The All Butter Pound Cake is a very tight example of the...
Image: GraphicaArtis (Getty Images) So you like bold coffee, but all you have at home is a bag of light-roast beans. What to do? Well, one solution is to buy another bag of coffee—but...
Photo: Claire Lower 3-Ingredient Happy Hour3-Ingredient Happy HourThe weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. I cannot imagine anyone is feeling very patriotic right now. If there is one thing that we...
Photo: Shutterstock It is not stew season, not even a little bit, and yet the grocery stores continue to sell stew meat, with blatant disregard for the weather. It would be rude, almost mocking,...
Photo: Sam Bithoney The Blender Bottle is an item “healthy people” own and use, so I’ve never spent a ton of time thinking about it. But that little whisk ball inside the spouted plastic...
Back to BasicsBack to BasicsWe all have that one seemingly “easy” task we’ve never quite figured out. This week, no problem is too trivial, no question too stupid. Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean...
