Last Christmas was mercifully routine for my family. Weeks earlier, it looked as though we’d face a wave of holiday…
To those of us fluent in high fructose corn syrup, the Valentine’s Day season never feels like much of a season at all.…
Hello, I’m pregnant. And I’m thrilled! And so grateful that sometimes I get a little weepy! My son will turn four…
Robert Frost got it, man. He understood how fleeting life’s pleasures—nay, life itself—can be.
I can’t think of another snack that earns me more kudos than homemade mini pretzels. I’ve made them for Super Bowl…
I once lost a portion of a security deposit on a college apartment because my roommates and I hadn’t cleaned the oven…
Years ago, in a previous life, I participated in a study on the aptitudes of theater artists. (Yes, I love Hamilton,…
It’s 6 p.m. on a Sunday night in San Francisco, and I’m surrounded by people screaming animal noises.
Welcome to Cheese Week, The Takeout’s weeklong praise of cheeses.
The vast majority of us eat pizza, and we all have preferred toppings we stick to as strongly as we do to our favorite…
I am not a sweets person or a salt person. I am a cream person. Sour, crème fraîche, light, heavy, I’m on board. When I…
I didn’t intend to set up camp in a Las Vegas buffet. I am too antsy, too old, and too eager to explore; I am not cut…
The ritual was the same every morning. While my brothers and I ate breakfast, my mom deposited a pink, frozen sheet of…
Editor’s Note: In April 2017, our colleague Caitlin PenzeyMoog wrote “Salt grinders are bullshit, and other lessons…
As chemically and ritualistically dependent on my morning coffee as I am, my weekday routine isn’t ideal. It’s not…
Deliciousness is not just how a dish looks, but how it feels. It’s the tactile and textural pleasures. And being that…
Humans are not good at keeping their resolutions. We’re asking ourselves to change hardened habits, and few of us have…
Last June, we presented our first-ever gallery of original artwork from The Takeout’s ace graphics team. Today, we’re…
Seven years ago, I starting baking yule logs around Christmas time. I enlisted the help of my friend and baking…
What you need to know about our jobs at The Takeout is we don’t fashion ourselves as experts in food and drink. We…
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