Prosciutto crisps, which I fondly call “pork chips,” can function as a fancy snack, highfalutin’ bacon bit, or—in the case of one cocktail I had one time—unexpected drink garnish. Usually the paper-thin slices require at least 15 minutes in an oven to get them nice and crisp, but you can speed up the process considera…

There are a few methods of purchasing food on Amazon: there’s Amazon Fresh, the company’s grocery-delivery service, and then there are third-party sellers, who may sell everything from candy bars to cookies to coffee creamer. It’s the latter that’s causing headaches for customers who are receiving out-of-date and…

I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve been obsessed with the Cosmic Crisp apple since July when I read this article about it in The California Sunday Magazine. It is supposed to be as flavorful as a Honeycrisp, as disease-resistant as an Enterprise, and as easy to store as a Red Delicious. It has been in development since…

I don’t like to be surprised by my food, except in the sense of “Oh, this is better than I thought it would be.” I do not want an unknown ingredient to renders my food a completely different flavor from what I’d expected, ergo, I don’t like Beanboozled jelly beans or mystery-flavor snacks. Life is unpredictable…

We here at The Takeout have covered great feats in butter sculpting before. We’ve done a deep dive into its history. And today we get to cover what will likely be considered the benchmark of all butter sculptures to come: Boris Johnson’s big fat British head.

While their ambitious bakes may not always come to fruition, the competitors of The Great British Baking Show walk into the tent each week with big, big plans. Before “the bake,” as they call it over the the U.K., we’re told what each competitor’s plans are via soothing voiceover, accompanied by a gorgeous…

In the U.K., cookies are called “biscuits”, nuts are called “nootz,” and unleavened dough is called “pastry.” Ergo, Pastry Week is not about the fancy little baked delights we in America were expecting, but rather about excessively complicated and batshit crazy pies that no sane human would ever make in any real…

Like any good Corn Belt Catholic, my earliest experience with fish was being forced to eat it on Fridays instead of the meaty stuff I’d much rather have had. Variations on the theme included freezer-burned fish sticks, badly cooked catfish, and canned tuna. I’ve been off the stuff to this very day. Even as an adult, I…

Hi Kate, I love spicy food of all types but I struggle to know what kind of beer to drink with it. If I’m home and cooking dinner for myself and my partner, I could choose any style my liquor store has. So what’s the best one to look for?

I saw the Hope Diamond yesterday. It was fine. I had gone to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum with my kids to check out some fossils and mummies, and it turns out the Hope Diamond is there, too. Figured I should check it out while I was there, and honestly, I was expecting more. When I think of a gigantic…

Eight months have passed since the start of the Great Beer Wars of 2019, which were sparked by the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand a controversial Super Bowl commercial involving knights and a barrel of corn syrup. Since then, MillerCoors and Bud Light brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev have been locked in not just a legal…

Cakes made from boxed mixes can be a little lackluster, one-note, and cloying, but one ingredient—whipped cream—can change all that. The fluffy dairy smooths over any telltale chemical leavening flavors, and adds height and body.

Here in Chicago, members of the Chicago Teachers Union, which supports the Chicago Public Schools, went on strike yesterday morning and continue to strike today. It’s not just about the money (although that would always be welcome, especially since many teachers have to buy their own supplies) but about the lack of res…