We tried the Queer Eye tomato juice-lemonade thing
The third season of Queer Eye is, unsurprisingly, a funny, warm, weepy delight. Much could be said about the wonderful…
Rec Room
Hearty recommendations from The Takeout staff.
This app solved our group’s bill-splitting headaches
This past weekend, I traveled to Las Vegas to meet up with a group of six friends who live all across the company. It…
Harriet The Spy inspired my lifelong love of tomato sandwiches
Like many young girls who dreamed of growing up to be a writer, Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet The Spy was my favorite book…
Chocolat celebrates the joy of small indulgences
When I was a kid, Ash Wednesday always involved a long list of give-ups that I would try to hang on to for 40 whole…
Your fancy coffee beans deserve a burr grinder
2019 is already my Year Of Coffee. I started January off by upping my pour-over game (finally), and followed that up…
Everyone needs a giant plastic Cambro tub in their life
When I started regularly baking sourdough bread last year, I realized just how messy a hobby bread-making can be.…
Forget bagels, put lox and cream cheese on English muffins instead
Friend of The Takeout Drew Magary recently unleashed a Hot Take™ upon the world: He made the case in GQ…
The delicious versatility of evaporated milk
Last week, writer Kevin M. Kruse tweeted the following:
Garlic braids are a kitchen necessity
Welcome to The Takeout’s Garlic Week, our Valentine to the world’s loveliest stink.
Let us convince you to make homemade pasta
Ten years ago nearly to the week, the woman who will become my wife and I became “official.” We had graduated from the…
Cleaver Quarterly's Vegetables of China trading-card deck is a Chinese grocery demystifier
The Cleaver Quarterly is a delightful, scrappy magazine devoted to Chinese food, a cuisine that “at any given moment,…
I doff my cap to Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda
On Christmas Day, I found myself at Kaufman’s, a legendary delicatessen in the greater Chicago area. (The Chinese going…
Beer appreciation starts with these 6 essential books
New beer books hit shelves every year, and I try to read as many as possible. They run the gamut: deep dives into…
Finally, a plastic wrap that doesn’t treat you like garbage
The typical line of questioning opened up again this past Christmas as soon as I had delivered my annual homemade…
The 4 essential books of Chinese cooking
Like so many stories on The Takeout, the origin of this idea came from that website, Twitter. Tina Antolini, senior…
Single-use appliances are stupid—except for a hot air corn popper
In our minimalist quest to out-organize each other, single-use kitchen gadgets have become appliance non-grata. Melon…
The Good Food is the first cookbook aspiring cooks should seek out
I’ve become such a junkie for beautiful food photography that I sighed when I saw The Good Food on my kitchen counter. …
In celebration of Trader Joe’s totally legit Comté cheese
Welcome to Cheese Week, The Takeout’s weeklong praise of cheeses.
I’ve stopped eating cheese on anything but Cracked Pepper & Olive Oil Triscuits
Just like there’s always money in the banana stand, there’s always cheese in the Bernot fridge. Slices, wedges,…
In praise of the Ferris wheel bar
I don’t often travel for the holidays, but this Christmas, Vegas beckoned. My partner’s mother and her husband moved to…