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Milo is the Southeast Asian Nesquik—if Nesquik tasted good

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

Patricia Kelly Yeo

6/04/20 12:58PM

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Before dalgona coffee—way before—there was the Greek frappe

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

Elena Bruess

5/14/20 6:55AM

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Dalgona candy: a kitchen experiment

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

Aimee Levitt

5/07/20 6:10AM

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I couldn’t stop thinking about “peanut butter milk,” so I made some for myself

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

Marnie Shure

5/06/20 12:27PM

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Forget sourdough—have you tried making nukazuke pickles?

About a week into the COVID-19-related stay-at-home orders, I noticed a surge in Instagram posts related to…

Cass Balzer

4/29/20 6:05AM

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Wanko soba is Japan’s gonzo all-you-can-eat noodle challenge

It’s at around bowl number 40 that I start to slow down, but our server, a somber teen who’s probably all of 15…

Jacob Dean

4/20/20 7:24AM

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Captain D’s is deep-fried enlightenment best enjoyed in solitude

As an Evangelical kid with a bad attitude and a flair for the dramatic, I grew up endlessly jealous of my Catholic…

Lillian Stone

4/08/20 7:17AM

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Hattie’s Tamales wrap the taste of Memphis in parchment

I first spied the Hattie’s Tamales wagon last winter. It was after the hoedown at the end of the Ameripolitan Music…

Stefanie Wright

3/30/20 6:56AM

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We try dalgona coffee, the South Korean social distancing trend that’s taken over Instagram

Along with prompt and plentiful COVID-19 tests, the hottest trend coming out of South Korea these days is dalgona…

Aimee Levitt

3/20/20 1:43PM

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Feast your eyes on zeppole, the Italian doughnut turned New Jersey tradition

To most Americans, Father’s Day comes in June and is cause to craft pops a gift if you’re in grade school or, any…

Brian Yaeger

3/19/20 6:45AM

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When Midwesterners go fancy, they pull out the relish tray

Like many people who share my upper Midwestern heritage, I have a firm recall of different relish trays I’ve…

Nick Leggin

3/12/20 6:02AM

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The Sonoran hot dog brings the U.S. and Mexico together in a bolillo roll

Rafael Krouses handed me a heaving technicolor mess in a bun. We were in a gas station parking lot in Green Valley,…

Cristina Schreil

3/04/20 6:09AM

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Slop it to me: A skeptic devours the Pueblo Slopper

We pulled into Pueblo, Colorado, at high noon on a Sunday. We were on the hunt for something called a slopper. Which…

Ken Wheaton

2/26/20 6:22AM

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Rich, rum-infused black cake is the Caribbean way to celebrate just about anything

I remember the year I ate half of the entire black cake by myself. It had been an annual tradition for my mother’s…

Sharine Taylor

2/24/20 6:24AM

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Meet the crown jewel of Palestinian desserts, Nablus knafeh

I’m sitting on my couch, rustling through the pages of a 1990s Palestinian cookbook as I desperately try to locate…

Jad Bahhur

2/21/20 9:55AM

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Santa Maria–style barbecue is pure California, right down to the red oak smoke

Memphis. Central Texas. KC. You probably already know these places are synonymous with barbecue: tangy pulled pork…

Brian Yaeger

2/12/20 6:58AM

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Let us now praise hot dish, the carb bomb that brings us all together

Last week when I was writing about Amy Klobuchar’s hot dish campaign, I went looking through the Takeout archives…

Aimee Levitt

2/03/20 6:23AM

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Haitian soup joumou is both celebration and rebellion

It’s the dead of winter, and most of the fun holidays are behind us—but there’s still months of cold and slush to…

Yveka Pierre

1/30/20 6:32AM

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Let’s raise a whisky glass to haggis, the chieftain of the sausage race

You may know haggis as the national dish of Scotland. But more likely, you know it as one the hackiest jokes in the…

John Carruthers

1/24/20 7:15AM

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Get schooled by Barberton fried chicken, both a crash course and a master class in lard

Straight to the food, here: Barberton chicken is just chicken fried in lard. It’s got Serbian roots, and there’s no…

Danny Palumbo

1/15/20 6:08AM

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