Burning Questions

Even if you’re the most prepared of pantry preppers, brown sugar can still find a way to foil all your best-laid…

Mayonnaise is a sauce. It’s a condiment. It’s a classic of French haute cuisine. It’s a dip for French fries. It’s a…

In the old timey days of milkmaids and wooden churns, buttermilk was the substance left behind after cream was…

At the first restaurant I ever worked in, I was in charge of making the hand-cut fries that we’d pile atop bowls of…

Best-by dates on packages are known to contribute to food waste, as consumers see that a date has passed and toss…

If you’re going to try your hand at some of The Takeout’s most comforting recipes, you’ll need yeast. Some recipes,…

Being a pet owner means you ought to have “sucker” tattooed on your forehead. Unlike people with actual human…

Welcome to another installment of Ingredients Decoded, where we check the ingredients label on a packaged food,…

This time of year, you may bring a bag of potatoes home from the grocery store only to find them sprouting a day or…

This time of year I’ll eat white chocolate in any form. It’s a position that didn’t change even after consuming a…

It’s inevitable after every holiday meal: Once the dishes are cleared, the plates are stacked, and the dishwasher is…

We eat chickens. We eat ducks. We eat Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas geese. Hell, we can even eat peacock, if…

Welcome to another installment of Ingredients Decoded, in which we check out the ingredient label of packaged food,…

Welcome to another installment of Ingredients Decoded, where we check the ingredients label on a packaged food,…

I avoided eating cherries for a long time, mostly because of childhood trauma associated with cough medicine. It did…

Welcome to another installment of Ingredients Decoded, where we check out the ingredient label of packaged food,…

As long as humans have been concocting beauty treatments, they have been trying to fight eye puffiness. Egyptian…

Modern science has finally been able to explain what professional pizza makers have known for decades: Balls of…

Like Rocky downing several glasses of raw eggs, treating a black eye with a cold-steak compress is something we’re…

Almost no one remembers to buy tomato paste. It’s one of those pantry items that you take for granted, assuming that…