Welcome to Ask Kate About Beer, in which The Takeout’s resident beer expert answers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about beer but were too drunk to ask. Have a question? Shoot it to beer@thetakeout.com

Welcome to Week 4 of my Great British Baking Show recaps! A number of you have asked me why my recaps com out early in the week when, in the U.S., Netflix gives us the newest episodes on Friday. The answer: Netflix will not allow me, a silly plebeian, to screen episodes in advance, and my Fridays are already full of ve…

The United States of Hot Dogs is a recurring feature exploring the historic origins and modern appeal of America’s regional hot dogs.

Cory Booker is the junior Senator representing New Jersey, served as Mayor of Newark for seven years, and is currently running for President. He’s also vegan. While you might consider a candidate’s dietary choices outside the scope of relevancy—we certainly wouldn’t—animal welfare is actually a tenet of Booker’s…

In my preteen years, I remember testing my heat tolerance through a game: my brother would dare me to eat a few jalapeno potato chips, and then not drink anything to temper the heat for five minutes. My young palate had yet to develop the resistance to such spice, so this was painful. Often the only technique I had to…

Welcome to our second installment of Fun Fact Friday, where I teach you some useless bit of information that will likely not functionally improve your life in any way. Today we published my oven roasted apple butter recipe, as well as a great list of apple “not-really-a recipe” recipes, so, in keeping with the theme,…

You may think it odd that I, the only sober member of The Takeout staff, should be the one to review a cookbook called Hangover Helper. However, I believe that I—a person who had for many year done a lot of “research” on hangovers—am actually the perfect person to review such a book! I have experienced hangovers that…

If you’re going to go about world domination, the best strategy is to get people where they’re most comfortable—that is, to infiltrate their homes. And so Impossible Foods is making its debut in the nation’s grocery stores this very day. No more waiting in line at fast food joints! No more worrying about the viability…

It’s only 41 days until Halloween! It’s not quite time to panic about a costume, but it’s definitely time to start thinking about it. Fortunately, fast food has you covered! By which we mean that Taco Bell has come up with a full line of Halloween costumes. Dress up as a squad of hot sauces with your, uh, squad!…

When I was growing up in New York, I could identify every neighborhood by its local diner—I grew up in Bridgeview territory, spent weekends at Vegas with my grandmother, grabbed my requisite morning bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich before school at the Tribeca. I couldn’t fathom a world without them, and never would…

Fast food fuels plenty of road trips, but it did so in a literal sense for a pair of Florida high school students. The two 17-year-olds retrofitted a 1985 Mercedes to run on used fast food oil, then drove the car the 6,000 miles from Sarasota, Florida to the Canadian border. It reportedly smelled of hash browns the…

In my house, Apple Picking Day is sacred. My husband and I have both spent most our our adult lives in the food service industry, and 10 years of that was owning our own small, family business. Holidays were always about work, and even if we managed to get them off, we were far too tired to do anything remotely…

I don’t believe that apple butter needs to be a fussy, complicated thing to make. You shouldn’t have to hover over a stove for hours, praying that nothing burns. You shouldn’t need to own a food mill. It’s not something you need to set a whole day aside to do, nor is it something that you should only make if you have…

Last spring, Jeff Permar decided to expand his garden, building a new plot devoted to delicious fruits and vegetable. Unfortunately, Permar was not the only one who knew they would be delicious, and one by one, the fruits of his labor began disappearing. Not willing to let crime go unpunished, he set up a secret…

Perhaps you’ve seen the headlines this week. “2 Amish men escape police after being pulled over for DUI in buggy”—please note the subheadline, which reads: “Horse also fled the scene.” You have questions. We have questions. Let’s sort this out.