5/16/226 Lessons Everyone Needs to Learn About Homemade PizzaThe collected wisdom gained from baking an inadvisable amount of homemade pies.
4/4/22Deep Fry Your Pizza, Because None of Us Are ImmortalYes, it's worth it to fry up battered slices of pizza in hot oil. You'll see why.
1/20/22Discovering the tartan magic of haggis pizzaYes, haggis on pizza. A delicious way to celebrate Burns night 2022.
11/10/21This Hot Pepper Smoked Pork Sandwich is so easy it feels like cheatingFor the love of all that is holy, let's do something different with barbecue.
4/8/21Personal Trainer: Cooking offers two screens, one kitchen, and a whole world to exploreWelcome to Gamer Week, in which The Takeout will be celebrating the edible side of video games all week long.
2/9/21Ditch pizza fundamentalism and embrace the glorious abomination that is Taco PizzaIs there a food snob worse than the pizza fundamentalist haughtily turning up their nose at anything cooked under…
1/11/21The best uses for leftover giardiniera oil, ranked on the Farina ScaleAdaptability is the mark of a great home cook. When I’ve got too much of something, one of my favorite things to do…
1/5/21“I am wooooounded”: A jaunty stroll through the official Frasier cookbookAs a low-attention-span indoor kid, I had two great loves growing up. The first was American football—the Bears…
8/7/20The Pizzadad Chronicles, or my obsessive quest to make the best Chicago tavern-style pie at homeYou first feel like a father when you hold your tiny, precious child. But you first feel like a dad when you find…
7/2/20Al pastor from the corner store: How to make Spam tacosOne of my favorite food experiences—or, honestly, one of my favorite experiences, period—is that first bite of a…
5/3/20Make Italian Beef at home and become an honorary Chicago meatball like meYou know those hyper-regional dishes so pervasive in their area of origin that locals all assume they’re universal?…
4/23/20I made White Castle Pâté and I’d do it againEven before the current stay-at-home reality, I spent a lot of time on Twitter, both for my job and because I’m the…
4/1/20Let’s make some hoosh, the survival stew of famed Antarctic explorersIf you’re like me, you’ve spent at least parts of the last couple of weeks animorphing into a nauseated ball of…
2/7/20It’s high time we electrocute some hot dogs and see what happensThere’s not a ton of debate as to the best way to cook a hot dog: steamed/simmered is a dog stand tradition, grilled…
1/29/20The hot dogs of Molokai: On living in paradise with a stolen grillIt’s the dead of winter, and most of the fun holidays are behind us—but there’s still months of cold and slush to…
1/24/20Let’s raise a whisky glass to haggis, the chieftain of the sausage raceYou may know haggis as the national dish of Scotland. But more likely, you know it as one the hackiest jokes in the…
12/27/19Witness the glorious hot dog singularity that is “CHI”michurriThis time of year, we tend to throw around the term “Christmas miracle” willy-nilly: good parking spot, early…
12/11/19Ingredients in a Beer Mile: water, malt, hops, yeast, merciless entropyThere are certain inadvisable things you do because they seem like they might make a pretty good story later: jump…
10/21/19Make smoked trout dip only if you’re prepared to be hooked foreverLike any good Corn Belt Catholic, my earliest experience with fish was being forced to eat it on Fridays instead of…
10/8/19Apple Butter-Cheddar Better Burgers are the cable-knit sweater of fall grillingSummer in Chicago gets all the press, but fall around here is the real ass-kicking season. It’s got all the outdoor…