It was hard, I think, not to feel a personal connection with Anthony Bourdain. In his books, starting with Kitchen…

Some events are so rare, so fleeting, that you can almost feel them being inscribed into the history books as you…

My husband and I are both professional recipe developers who work from a home that’s shared with two teenage boys,…

Packaged stock is never as good as the homemade kind, but even though I know this, I rarely have quarts of fresh…

In a town that pins so much of its identity on being precise about its most iconic foods, the phrase “vegan Italian…

Enjoyable as life in Takeout-land is, sometimes I need a break. I need to get away from my desk. I need a view out…

We always talk about dip like it’s made for parties, informal gatherings, or hootenannies, but let’s be honest:…

A few months ago, I published a weeks-long experiment involving 400 chocolate chip cookies and, presumably, a…

For the past several years I’ve had a recurring dream involving a circus tent, a bucket full of onions, a trained…

First things first: The Stuff is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I’m a perennial consumer of crap film, most…

On the heels of the 2019 uber-phenomenon that was the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich, each successive launch of a…

I’ve extolled the virtues of pre-mixed seasonings before. Seasoning and sauce mixes aren’t just a weapon in the lazy…

If we don’t make it apparent enough, The Takeout is really proud of being based in Chicago. We love our local…

Welcome to Gamer Week, in which The Takeout will be celebrating the edible side of video games all week long.

I love sautéed mushrooms so much (I would marry them if I could, but that’s “not legal” and they “only like me as a…

The Lenten season requires you to suspend your disbelief. Not sure about a skinny 33-something dude turning down a…

A few weeks ago in our Last Call column, we asked you what your favorite peanut butter and jelly sandwich…

On March 8, 2020, I stepped inside a mountainside coffee shop in Jay Peak, Vermont. That hastily made 16 oz of…

Stranger Things, The Crown, and The Queen’s Gambit may get most of the ink when it comes to Netflix and the…

Welp, that sucked. I’d never say that my hopes for this week’s column were high; even in less terrible seasons of The…