We weren’t born yesterday. We know that these maps listing the most popular X type of food by state, released every so often by various consumer research firms, are usually baffling and suspicious for any number of reasons. Typically, we question their methodology: Does Wyoming, for example, really purchase more chocol…

For someone with a sweet tooth who demands instant gratification and gets bored with extended baking projects, there is no better spending-a-day-inside-at-home activity than baking cookies. Most cookies require less than an hour of measuring, mixing, and scooping. The process is simple enough that kids can join in,…

All week long, but today especially, it’s been hard to look away from the news from Minneapolis. Since The Takeout is a food site, we view the world through the prism of food. And so we’ll leave you with this Facebook post from Hafsa Islam, whose father Ruhel’s restaurant, Gandhi Mahal on 27th Avenue South in…

While the U.S. is slowly starting to think about what it will mean to reopen businesses, major questions persist about the safety and feasibility of hosting large events. This seems to be particularly true of festivals centered around food, beer, and wine, where close contact between attendees is unavoidable and…

Welcome to Burning Questions, The Takeout’s video series in which we answer all your culinary quandaries and ponderings.

One thing we’ve learned this week is that 2020 is the year of the pizza. And largely, this has meant massive success for the chain pizza restaurants, the ones with large production facilities or widespread delivery infrastructure already in place; these are not necessarily boom times for the independent outlets trying…

Attention, readers of all ages! Step right up! You’ve seen the Fiji Mermaid, the firebreathers, and the Minnesota Iceman. But nothing—and I mean nothing—you have seen before can prepare you for what you are about to see. Hold your children tightly and try not to faint, as we present to you ... The Rock That Looks Like…

You may have noticed that in this week’s Takeout draft of kitchen utensils, no one chose the ice cream maker. That’s because it’s one of the most cumbersome and least used of all kitchen gadgets. Sure, it’s fun to mix up your own ice cream at home—once or twice. But then you realize that in all that time it takes to…

It’s been hard to find much to look forward to recently, but for me, one of those things has been Space Force. The new “workplace comedy” from Steve Carrell (The Office) and Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Simpsons, and a million other awesome things) debuts on Netflix today, and to celebrate this…

Update, May 29, 2020: What’s life without a healthy bit of meaningless argument? Food writer Adam Liaw published his quarantine cooking power rankings over at The Guardian this week, assigning scores to such items as dalgona coffee (of course), sourdough bread (the new classic!), and even the IKEA Swedish meatball…

I am fanatically passionate about breakfast sandwiches. I love how customizable (and therefore deeply personal) they are; more than any other food, a person’s breakfast sandwich order tells you a lot about their character. Mine says one thing loud and clear: This bitch loves potatoes.

I have a lot of canned pineapple in my house. Why? Because when I went quarantine shopping in March all the fresh produce was gone, and I started freaking out about my family getting scurvy. Two weeks later produce was back, nobody’s teeth fell out, and I was stuck with a cabinet full of canned pineapple. It’s not…

It’s Friday. Time for another bonus cocktail edition of What’s In The House? in which Stephanie raids her aunt and uncle’s liquor cabinet to whip up a weekend-heralding beverage or two. Today’s mixology course is a lesson in crafting the perfect dirty martini.

Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports, and arguing on Slack.