Acquired Tastes

Christmas 2020 was a weird one, my first without my family, my first not in Chicago. I spent it in an Airbnb in the…

The aisles of the Minnesota State Fair are host to a teeming game of lard-coated one-upmanship. On the left, hot…

Right around the time a two-year-old learns to walk, another milestone occurs: marketers begin targeting them in the…

They don’t have pink frosting or rainbow sprinkles, but Dutch oliebollen are the precursor to American doughnuts.…

Welcome to Jiggle All The Way, The Takeout’s holiday celebration of Jell-O, gelatin, and all things wiggly. We’ll be…

Welcome to Jiggle All The Way, The Takeout’s holiday celebration of Jell-O, gelatin, and all things wiggly. We’ll be…

Every year during the winter (like right now), you’ll hear a weird warning on the news coming from the Midwest.…

The pimento cheese sandwich at the famed Augusta National golf course is from another era. For starters, it costs…

Rabbi Ed Feinstein, senior rabbi at Valley Beth Shalom in Los Angeles and a lifelong Jewish pastry expert, says if a…

Having already deflated everything fun about summer 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has moved on to collapsing the…

Here’s a controversial opinion for you, and one that nearly any dyed-in-the-wool New Englander will agree with: clam…

When I eat natto anywhere besides at home, I do it furtively and alone. When I worked in an office, I would time my…

As someone who has lived in New England her entire life and comes from a family in which knowing how to crack open a…

America’s carb-shaming, protein-worshipping proclivities are relatively new. But since we’ve embraced keto and…

My first night in Budapest, I ambled into Karavan, a lively street food court in Pest’s hip Jewish Quarter. It was a…

I try not to think of celery too much, except chopped up in tiny pieces for mirepoix or in less tiny pieces to add…

Most Americans may know to sprinkle crackers into a bowl of soup, but long before I heaped a serving spoon of oyster…

The drink came out absolutely sweating. Already the dry Greek heat had begun melting the ice, and condensation was…

Let’s make this clear right now: the only things dalgona coffee and dalgona candy have in common is their appearance…

Like a catchy song can quickly become an earworm, so a viral Instagram recipe can become an eyeworm. (Sorry for that…